Green Party’s Jill Stein charged with trespassing, mischief

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier was originally going to also charge Stein with vandalism.

The incidents overshadowed Stein’s interview with the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times, which was published Tuesday. He said that around 25 law enforcement officials arrived to the protest site and found people on horses, wearing masks and goggles and carrying hatchets.

“Officers were pulled back from the area because it was determined that it was unsafe for them to go into the situation”, he said.

A similar protest was staged at the worksite on Saturday as well, with about 300 protesters in attendance. “We will pursue charges as needed”, he said.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has fared even worse, drawing a paltry three seconds of discussion in August on the NBC Nightly News.

On Tuesday, a federal judge granted in part and denied in part a temporary restraining order requested by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a neighboring tribe. “The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids”, Stein wrote.

According to a website run by natural gas and propane company Energy Transfer, the Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1,172-mile pipeline project that will connect oilfields in the Bakken area of Montana and North Dakota to IL.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is trying to stop construction of a section of the $3.8 billion four-state pipeline that tribal leaders say would violate sacred and culturally sensitive grounds and possibly pollute water.

For more on the pipeline and what’s being done to stop it, check out Democracy Now’s interview with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault and Earth Justice lawyer Jan Hasselman.

The county sheriff’s department said Stein and Baraka vandalized equipment at a construction site for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in Morton County while trespassing at the site along with activists.

Stein was one of around 200 protesters Tuesday at the pipeline site, reported the Bismarck Tribune.

An online survey released Thursday from Morning Consult found 52 percent of voters support including Johnson in the debates; 47 percent support an invitation to Stein. Johnson, a former Republican, has benefited from Donald Trump’s departure from GOP orthodoxy and from Bernie Sanders’ strong primary campaign, with some voters who supported Sanders refusing Clinton and looking for options.