Jill Stein Defends Her Vandalism: It’s For The Climate!

Rob Keller, a spokesman for the Morton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Stein’s arrest warrant has been filed and said that if police located the physician, “they would arrest her”.

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

The pair joined the ongoing protest against the controversial pipeline, known by the acronym DAPL, in North Dakota on Tuesday where their campaign admits they both spray-painted construction equipment alongside tribal activists and environmental allies. He said he was alerted to video of Ms. Stein painting “I approve this message” on the equipment.

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

Oklahoma tribes are joining a growing outcry over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

A federal judge is set to deliver a key ruling on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline that has drawn thousands of protesters to a construction site in North Dakota in recent weeks.

In a statement Wednesday, Stein stood by her actions at the protest, calling the pipeline “another deadly blow to a climate teetering on the brink”.

On Tuesday, U.S. Judge James Boasberg partially granted a temporary restraining order against Dakota Access, which agreed to halt construction on portions of the pipeline.

The Standing Rock Tribe’s lawyers are working to persuade a federal judge to withdraw permits for the 1,100-mile pipeline, which could shuttle almost 500,000 barrels of Bakken shale oil throughout the Southwest.

The protest Saturday came one day after the tribe filed court papers saying it found several sites of “significant cultural and historic value” along the pipeline’s path.

Officials with Energy Transfer Partners, the lead firm behind the project, had agreed to temporarily suspend work in some but not all parts of the 1,100-mile, $3.7 billion project, pending the outcome of the legal proceedings. At that time, and as Jill Stein alluded to when she responded to the news of her arrest warrant, private contractors allegedly sicced attack dogs on protesters and doused them with pepper spray. The pipeline would transport crude oil from the Bakken shale in North Dakota to IL, where it would continue to the Gulf Coast.

For Stein, who probably hopes that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, that required vandalism and being arrested on misdemeanor criminal charges.