{"id":2874,"date":"2016-10-28T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2016-10-28T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:59:15","slug":"crowe-criticises-militarised-police-crackdown-on-dakota-access-protest-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-criticises-militarised-police-crackdown-on-dakota-access-protest-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe criticises militarised police crackdown on Dakota Access protest camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his deep concern over the heavy handed and brutal tactics used by the police against Native Americans who are protesting against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have led vibrant protests against the Dakota Access 1,200 mile pipeline linking North Dakota to Illinois, which threatens their water supply and cultural heritage<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLast month I sent a solidarity message to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who are protesting against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike many others, I\u2019m extremely concerned for the welfare of these protesters as armed police have moved in to disperse the activists. There are widespread allegations of police brutality and film footage from the scene is damning. I completely condemn the use of rubber bullets by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to echo the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe criticism of law enforcement&#8217;s militarised response to the protest camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the US Government to stop the armed soldiers and riot police from demolishing the protesters camp and desist from assaulting peaceful protesters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his deep concern over the heavy handed and brutal tactics used by the police against Native Americans who are protesting against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have led vibrant protests against the Dakota Access 1,200 mile pipeline linking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,259,260,40,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-native-americans","category-standing-rock-sioux","category-usa","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}