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Water protectors at Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which they say threatens to contaminate the safety of the water supply and impact sacred sites in the area. At least one demonstrator was arrested.

Police fired volleys of tear gas at the protesters to prevent them from crossing the bridge.

“Even though she’s lying there with her arm pretty much blown off, she’s focused on the fact that it’s not about her, it’s about what we’re doing to our country, what we’re doing to our native peoples, what we’re doing to our environment”, Wayne Wilansky said.

Kelcy Warren, CEO of pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners, told The Associated Press last Friday that he made a verbal offer to reimburse the state for policing costs during an earlier conversation with Gov. Jack Dalrymple.

The person who launched the campaign wrote that Wilansky is an activist from NY who was worked with groups like NYC Shut It Down and Hoods4Justice before travelling to North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Sioux’s fight against the pipeline.

The clash was at the Backwater Bridge, near where protesters had set up camp on private property owned by the pipeline developer, Energy Transfer Partners, before they were forcibly removed by law enforcement October 27. Protesters say the closed bridge near their main camp blocks emergency services, and they accuse authorities of keeping it shut down to block their access to pipeline construction sites.

Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong said officials will request the additional funding from the state Emergency Commission on November 30.

“None of our equipment would cause an injury like that”, Keller said.

The most violent clashes took place less than a week before Thanksgiving, and ultimately resulted in police officers using water cannons on almost 400 protesters in below-freezing temperatures.

“I extend my hand in friendship to the indigenous people of this land we all live in”. “That’s not happening”, the sheriff said. “They are using their fire hoses to put out the fires, wet the land around so fires don’t spread, and they are also using water as crowd control”. A United Nations investigation into human rights abuses is now underway. Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune issued a statement calling the use of water an “act of brutality” and “inhumane”.

Sophia’s father has filed a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Justice Department.

Video from the scene showed security officers threatening protesters with dogs.