Welcome to Home of the Brave, I'm Scott Carrier.

Just after the election, I spent six days in and around Standing Rock, North Dakota talking to people about the pipeline protest.

I came back because I thought I had enough interviews for a story, but it's been taking a while to edit and in the meantime like two nights ago on

Sunday November 20th there was a huge battle between the police and about 400

protesters and I missed it. I followed it on Facebook by way of a live

feed by a Brit named Kevin Gilbert.

Now are you just coming in? This is the blockade on 18 or six just up from the where everyone's camping

stuff the standing rock reservation you can watch the video by going to Kevin Gilbert's Facebook page that's Gilbert with two teas.

This is peaceful water protectors being fired upon

with rubber bullets, tear gas,

compression grenades, mace and a water cannon.

The battle happened at night on a highway at a concrete bridge over a creek that flows into

the Missouri River.

The highway's been closed for almost two months by two burned out dump trucks parked

nose to nose at the bridge, effectively separating the protesters, camped about a half mile

to the south from the pipeline, about a half mile to the south from the pipeline about a half mile to the north.

The battle started at sunset as some protesters or water protectors as they call themselves were trying to clear the road by

towing the dump trucks with a semi truck. They succeeded in pulling one dump

truck into a ditch but then the county sheriffs, the Highway Patrol and the

National Guard showed up with a water cannon and tear gas. This is militarized

police in North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota, a National Guard, who were police from, I believe, five states here.

That is a water cannon that is being fired continuously at these peaceful water protectors.

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