Drone Video Shows Police Using Water Cannon on Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters

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11 pointsrezist8085 comments

To give this context:

Blasting people with water cannons has exactly one purpose - get protestors to disburse. It isn't a tactic to control an unruly crowd into a more orderly one. The water being blasted is at high enough pressures to bruise and it is extremely cold. This is the middle of winter in Dakota - and protestors are also being sprayed during the night.

Many other police tactics and injuries are being reported.

He called the fire hose a water cannon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYXGTCs8wZY

Poor Innocent baby kitten destroyed with fierce water Cannon!

Is it below freezing in that video? If so I would call report them for animal abuse.

To emphasize your point: In that kind of weather, merely pouring a bucket of water over someone's head can be enough to kill them, depending on how quickly they can get inside. Hopefully these protestors were able to quickly get medical care, because being wet miles away from civilization in sub-freezing weather is definitely a medical emergency.

For that reason, I would consider use of the hose in this context to be assault with a deadly weapon.

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