U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman Secures $15 Million for Militarized Police at Standing Rock
Water protectors sprayed with water cannon in frigid weather near barricade. Hoeven wants $15 million for North Dakota to pay for this type of action.
Published May 3, 2017
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, the chairman of the U.S. Committee on Indian Affairs, announced North Dakota will receive up to $15 million in federal funding to help reimburse the state for costs incurred as a result of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Hoeven represents North Dakota in the United States Senate.
Hoeven worked to include grant funding inthe Department of Justice’s budget as part of the Fiscal 2017 funding legislation.
The police at Standing Rock came from many states and were heavily militarized, using rubber bullets on water protectors and water cannons in frigid cold temperatures.
The state must submit an application to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which will provide $15 million for emergency law enforcement events occurring during Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017. The program will be administered by theDOJ’s Office of Justice Programs State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance. The grant is part of a larger government funding bill, which must be approved by Congress.
In addition to being the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Hoeven sits in the influential Senate Appropriations Committee.
Sen. John Hoeven is a Republican senator who represents North Dakota.
“As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I’ve worked to secure funding in the Department of Justice budget that states and localities can apply for to defer costs for emergency law enforcement situations,including the Dakota Access Pipeline protests,” said Hoeven. “This should enable North Dakota to get up to$15 million from the Fiscal Year 2017 budget to help defer the costs associated with that law enforcementeffort.”
During the protests, Hoeven worked to secure federal law enforcement resources to support state andlocal law enforcement, as well as Army Corps of Engineer resources to help clean up the protest site prior tothe spring thaw
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That $15 million COULD HAVE been used to put the pipeline SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Great, for those of us who pay taxes, this illustrates one way in which those monies are used.
I don’t want to pay taxes any longer, unless we get a flat rate 30% that every American, DJ Trump down to the homeless guy on the corner–everybody pays 30%. You don’t pay (like I know Trump doesn’t, nor other millionaires and billionaires)–get out. Then no more corporations allowed to give ANY money to ANY politician, and politicians can be public servants, instead of millionaires who get richer each year–take for example, my three Republican MoC, all millionaires, all old white people who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about whether I run out of bread and just eat cake, or not. I know, because of the postcards, emails, and telephone calls they have all been receiving from me since President Agent Orange became Commander in Chief. Stop this madness now, my government, or you are going to have a Greece getting kicked out of the EU situation, and the second American Civil War all rolled into one.
The only thing to fear is government itself! Federal dollars (American taxpayers money, mine and yours if you pay taxes, paid to Uncle Sam) being sent to North Dakota to reimburse North Dakota taxpayers.
Layers of bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy. Government at its worst. Drain the swamp!
He just secured the money to pay Paul for the horrific treatment of the Water Protectors from Peter’s till. Is everyone okay with the fact that taxpayers just fit the cost to act upon Natives at will by state and militia of unknown sources?
What you are saying is ok for protesters to get paid millions to steal bison from the natives there not part of protest. To herd the bison by horse and ATVs toward the police and then lie and post nation wide how they came from no where as a sign.
That protesters then again in the faces of native owners had their fences cut and the herd let go or stolen to the end of dead and butchered mostly by gun shot by a group who said they were unarmed and peaceful?
Of course these protesters on there own and in the cold walked into the river and walked across to go after the police just days before.
I remember the yelling of protesters that their legs were numb before they were half way across.
And of course there is the mess that had to be cleaned up that the protesters fight to stop.
And the refusing to leave when asked to leave repeatedly.
I remember when the pictures of the holes dug and being filled with untreated human waste the local native saying the problem was the 90% non native, non state and non country to which they had no control of acting like hippies and using up native resources was the problem. They were the trouble makers. This while other tribe members reported earlier that you might have 20 praying but you got hundreds causing trouble.
Millions wasted in garbage. Millions sent in good faith to thousands only to be told 90% had no right to even as they were invited by the 10% openly.
Clearly the problem was protesters were told to stay off the bridge and away from officers and they repeatedly refused to do either and the protesters themselves posted thousands of hours of their refusing to do so.
They should been fine triple that amount for what they did to the NATIVE AMERICANS!!!!
We all need to start write all elected officials. Protesting that we will not pay for this disgraceful act the North Dakota Police did on their own. I will be voting people out if they don’t stop the government from taxing us to death all because they make bad judgements. Why should we have to pay for their stupidity.