{"id":303840,"date":"2017-04-15T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snipers-and-infiltrators-at-standing-rock-quashing-protests-at-taxpayer-expense\/"},"modified":"2017-04-15T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:03:54","slug":"snipers-and-infiltrators-at-standing-rock-quashing-protests-at-taxpayer-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snipers-and-infiltrators-at-standing-rock-quashing-protests-at-taxpayer-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Snipers and Infiltrators at Standing Rock: Quashing Protests at Taxpayer Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_92037\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92037\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-9.36.24-PM.png\" alt=\"Photo by Jeffrey Putney | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-9.36.24-PM.png 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-9.36.24-PM-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-13-at-9.36.24-PM-768x478.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by Jeffrey Putney | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The inner-workings and cost of the government\u2019s militant and violent crackdown on peaceful Standing Rock protesters have been trickling in\u00a0these past few months, yet it hasn\u2019t\u00a0received the headlines it all deserves. In March, MUCKROCK was provided with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/news\/archives\/2017\/mar\/06\/indiana-reveals-arsenal-they-brought-them-standing\/\" target=\"_blank\">unredacted look<\/a>\u00a0at Indiana\u2019s Department of Homeland Security\u2019s EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact) operation at Standing Rock, and just this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/foi\/ohio-116\/nodapl-footage-ohio-state-highway-patrol-33446\/\" target=\"_blank\">files and photos obtained<\/a> by journalist Mike Best from Ohio\u2019s State Highway Patrol confirm that at least one sniper was deployed on a nearby hill, overlooking the protests.<\/p>\n<p>First, here\u2019s a look at Indiana\u2019s EMAC, which was asked to join North Dakota\u2019s efforts to silence Standing Rock protests at taxpayer expense. For 18 days, from October to November of last year, 37 officers from Indianapolis PD were sent to North Dakota\u2019s Morton County. Estimates of the cost of sending these cops, including their equipment, transport and commodities, exceeded $725,000. Wisconsin\u2019s Dane County Sheriff\u2019s Office also sent 13 deputies, with a total cost of $91,166 per day for an eight day stint.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list and cost breakdown provided by MUCKROCK of the weapons and materials Indiana sent along with their forces to Standing Rock.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>42 \u201csidearms\u201d (judging from the individual officer\u2019s paperwork, these are various Glock models): $16,464<br \/>37 (one for each officer!) Bushmaster AR-15\u2019s: $14,504<br \/>16 outfits of riot gear:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/04\/14\/snipers-and-infiltrators-at-standing-rock-squashing-protests-at-taxpayer-expense\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Jeffrey Putney | CC BY 2.0 \u00a0 The inner-workings and cost of the government\u2019s militant and violent crackdown on peaceful Standing Rock protesters have been trickling in\u00a0these past few months, yet it hasn\u2019t\u00a0received the headlines it all deserves. In March, MUCKROCK was provided with an unredacted look\u00a0at Indiana\u2019s Department of Homeland Security\u2019s EMAC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303840","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=303840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}