{"id":276017,"date":"2016-10-28T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T06:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-arrest-over-140-in-crackdown-on-north-dakota-oil-pipeline-protesters\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:04:44","slug":"police-arrest-over-140-in-crackdown-on-north-dakota-oil-pipeline-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/police-arrest-over-140-in-crackdown-on-north-dakota-oil-pipeline-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest over 140 in crackdown on North Dakota oil pipeline protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More than 140 Native Americans and other protesters have been arrested by police in the US state of North Dakota in a tense standoff between law enforcement and demonstrators seeking to halt construction of a controversial oil pipeline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least 141 protesters were arrested on Thursday evening and Friday morning as officers attempt to clear a camp on private property in the path of the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, the Morton County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in riot helmets used pepper spray and shot beanbag rounds on some of the estimated 330 protesters as helicopters flew overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Police blocked the highway leading to protest site with cars and burning tires, giving the scene a war zone-like appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters have been demonstrating for several months, and dozens have been arrested. Police expect additional protests, and possibly more arrests, in the coming days.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"310\" width=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20161028\/1bc0e709-68a8-4f35-8f2e-36066c0b118b.jpg\"\/><figcaption>A line of police move towards a&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/10\/28\/491008\/US-protest-oil-pipeline-North-Dakota\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 140 Native Americans and other protesters have been arrested by police in the US state of North Dakota in a tense standoff between law enforcement and demonstrators seeking to halt construction of a controversial oil pipeline. At least 141 protesters were arrested on Thursday evening and Friday morning as officers attempt to clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}