Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline

http://theintercept.com/2017/06/21/dakota-access-style-policing-moves-to-pennsylvanias-mariner-east-2-pipeline/
Date Written:  2017-07-21
Publisher:  The Intercept
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX21015

Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Excerpt: As Dakota Access opponents moved to new pipeline fights across the country, other repressive tactics deployed against the NoDAPL movement migrated too. TigerSwan's entry into the ME2 struggle comes as industry-supported lawmakers in Pennsylvania, a center of the nation's fracking boom, are advancing legislative efforts to increase fines and charges associated with anti-pipeline direct action protests.