
Environmentalist Erin Schrode isn't giving up the fight at Standing Rock — and she's encouraging other protestors to continue pushing forward as well.
Schrode has reason to shutter and leave the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, where Dakota Access LLP is attempting to build a 1,172-mile pipeline through sacred Native American territory. An officer shot the 25-year-old with a rubber bullet while she protested on Wednesday, November 2.
She recounted the incident in an alarming Facebook post soon afterward.
"I was just shot," Schrode wrote in the viral Facebook post. "Militarized police fired at me from point blank range with a rubber bullet on the front lines of Standing Rock." Schrode, who recently ran for Congress, told Revelist that the officer shot her while she interviewed a peaceful protestor.
"A group of water protectors were trying to cross a small river to get to the other side, which is Army Corp of Engineers land, and hold a prayer circle there," she said. "It's their sacred land."
"There were over 100 armed militarized police, local, state forces from all over, armed with assault rifles, with more cans of pepper spray and mace than I’ve ever seen in my life," she continued. "I can attest 100% peaceful protests on Wednesday when I was shot. There was no provocation, no aggression."
Yet, the officers still shot her. Schrode later posted video of the shooting, which prompted further outrage.
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