Security Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Also Used Psychological Warfare Tactics for BP

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Security Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Also Used Psychological Warfare Tactics for BP

By Steve Horn - Posted on 13 September 2016

G4S, a company hiring security staff to guard the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), also works to guard oil and gas industry assets in war-torn Iraq, and has come under fire by the United Nations for human rights abuses allegedly committed while overseeing a BP pipeline in Colombia and elsewhere while on other assignments.

Recently, the UK-based G4S placed job advertisements on its website, announcing it would be hiring security teams to work out of offices in Mandan and Bismarck, North Dakota. These two locales are only a 45-minute drive away from the ongoing Standing Rock Sioux Tribe-led encampment unfolding along DAPL's route in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. First among the list of required experience for both locations is service related to military police, elite military forces, or "any support role in a combat zone."



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Monica Lewman-Garcia, Director of Communications for G4S Secure Solutions in North America, told DeSmog, "G4S Secure Solutions is providing fewer than 10 security officers, assigned to remote sites and providing limited short-term unarmed patrol services."

Lewman-Garcia also stated that G4S was not on the scenes at the now-infamous Labor Day weekend incident in which private security forces used pepper spray against and allowed their dogs to bite Dakota Access pipeline protesters, adding that the company had not deployed its K9 units and that those involved worked for a different company. G4S also said it could not comment on whether it was hired to be in North Dakota by Dakota Access LLC, by another company altogether, or by one of the local police departments.

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1. Where is AG Loretta Lynch and the DOJ

President Obama's Executive Order to enjoin temporarily the company from further construction of the pipeline that crosses through
Native American Sacred Land in North Dakota. The U.S. has a duty to protect those who are putting their lives on the line to protect this Sacred Ground from rape, pillage, pollution, contamination, ETC. It is one thing for the President of the United States to stand up but another to use the full power of the Presidency to protect the protestors' rights and to ensure their safety on the ground. This is a huge battle if I weren't physically and mentally debilitated I would take leave and join. Native Americans are left to die for lack of payment for propane during the bitter wintertime, yet Fossil Fuel Cos. could care less; extraction and export for their own profits is front and centre and will think nothing of killing to get its way.