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Tense standoff at Dakota Access protest encampment
By JAMES MACPHERSON
and BLAKE NICHOLSON
Associated Press
CANNON
BALL,
N.D. — The prospect of a
police raid on an encamp-
ment protesting the Dakota
Access pipeline faded as
night fell Wednesday, with
law enforcement making
no immediate move after
protesters rejected their
request to withdraw from
private land.
Unmarked
aircraft
that had been monitoring
protesters were withdrawn
late in the day, and some
activists who had been on
hand for a possible confron-
tation headed back to a larger
protest camp on federal land.
Law enforcement officials
said they were ready to remove
about 200 protesters who this
weekend set up teepees and
tents on land owned by the
pipeline company.
Cass County Sheriff
Paul Laney told reporters
that authorities don’t want
a confrontation but that the
protesters “are not willing to
bend.”
“We have the resources.
We could go down there at
any time,” he said. “We’re
trying not to.”
Morton County Sheriff
Kyle Kirchmeier said author-
ities would continue to try for
a peaceful resolution but that
“we are here to enforce the
law as needed.”
Protesters vowed to stay
put, at one point chanting
“Stand in peace against the
beast.”
“We’re going to hold
this ground,” said protester
Mekasi Camp Horinek.
AP Photo/James MacPherson
ABOVE: Protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline encampment sits Wednesday on private property near Cannon Ball, N.D., owned by the
pipeline developer, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners. Both the local sheriff and Energy Transfer Partners have said the protesters are tres-
passing and must leave.
UPPER RIGHT: Actor-activist Mark Ruffalo, left, poses with Dallas Goldtooth, of the Indigenous Environmental Network, outside the state
Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., Tuesday. Ruffalo traveled to North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
LOWER RIGHT: Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson sits atop a horse Wednesday while visiting the protest camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
“I’m here to die if I have to.
I don’t want to die but I will,”
said Didi Banerji, who lives in
Toronto but is originally from
the Spirit Lake Sioux reserva-
tion in North Dakota.
Activists fear the nearly
1,200-mile pipeline could
harm cultural sites and
drinking water for the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
Energy Transfer Part-
ners, which is building the
$3.8 billion pipeline, said
Tuesday that the protesters
were trespassing and that
“lawless behavior will not be
tolerated.”
Protests supporting the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s
opposition to the pipeline
have been ongoing for
months, with more than 260
people arrested so far in
North Dakota. The pipeline
is to carry oil from western
North Dakota through South
Dakota and Iowa to an
existing pipeline in Patoka,
Illinois, where shippers can
send it on to Midwest and
Gulf Coast markets. Energy
Transfer Partners has said the
pipeline is nearly complete
other than the work in south
central North Dakota.
Local sheriff’s officials
had said earlier they didn’t
have the resources to imme-
diately remove activists from
the private land, which is
just north of the main protest
camp on federal land near
Cannon Ball, a town about
50 miles south of Bismarck.
But officers called for rein-
forcements, and those were
arriving from other states.
One notable clash came
on Sept. 3, after construction
crews removed topsoil from
private land that protesters
believe contained Native
American burial and cultural
sites. Authorities said four
security guards and two
guard dogs were injured. The
tribe said protesters reported
that six people were bitten by
security dogs and at least 30
people were pepper-sprayed.
The state and pipeline
company
dispute
that
any sacred grounds have
been disturbed during the
construction.
North Dakota’s Emer-
gency Commission approved
$6 million in emergency
funding for law enforcement
costs related to the protest
— but as of Wednesday,
nearly all of that had been
used up. The Department of
Emergency Services plans to
ask for more, Fong said.
The protest has drawn
the attention of activists
and celebrities, including
actress-activist
Shailene
Woodley and Green Party
presidential candidate Jill
Stein. Civil rights activist
Jesse Jackson and actor Mark
Ruffalo were at the protest
camp Wednesday. Jackson
said he was there “to pray
together, protest together
and if necessary go to jail
together.”
Adopted and brought to U.S.,
Two earthquakes rattle Italy
South Korean man to be deported
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — A South
Korean man flown to the U.S.
37 years ago and adopted by
an American couple at age
3 has been ordered deported
back to a country that is
completely alien to him.
“It is heartbreaking news,”
said Dae Joong (DJ) Yoon,
executive director of the
National Korean American
Service & Education Consor-
tium, who had been in contact
with Adam Crapser.
Crapser remains confined
in an immigration detention
center in Tacoma, Washington,
pending his deportation.
Crapser waived an appeal
during the hearing Monday
because he is desperate to
get out of detention, his
Seattle attorney, Lori Walls,
told The Associated Press on
Wednesday.
“I’m sure he doesn’t have
any idea what he can do in
Korea,” Yoon said in a phone
interview from his group’s
offices in Annandale, Va.
Crapser’s plight mirrors
those of thousands of others.
Yoon’s group says an esti-
mated 35,000 intercountry
adoptees lack U.S. citizenship.
It is backing legislation in
Congress to address that.
Seven years after Crapser
and his older sister were
adopted, their parents aban-
doned them. The foster care
system separated Crapser
when he was 10 from his
sister.
He was housed at several
foster and group homes.
When Crapser was 12, he
moved in with Thomas and
Dolly Crapser, their biological
son, two other adoptees and
several foster children.
There, he was physically
abused, Crapser has said. In
1991, the couple was arrested
on charges of physical child
abuse, sexual abuse and rape.
They denied the charges.
Thomas Crapser’s sentence
included 90 days in jail, and
Dolly Crasper’s included
AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka
In this March 19, 2015, file photo, Korean adoptee
Adam Crapser poses with daughter, Christal, 1, in the
family’s living room in Vancouver, Wash.
three years of probation.
Adam Crapser got into
trouble with the law after he
broke into his parents’ home
— it was, he said, to retrieve
the Korean Bible and rubber
shoes that came with him
from the orphanage — and
later it was for stealing cars
and assaulting a roommate.
Federal immigration offi-
cials say they became aware
of Crapser after he applied
for a green card. His criminal
convictions made him deport-
able.
Becky Belcore, who
was adopted at age 1 and
brought to the United States
from South Korea, said she
was with Crapser in the
courtroom, located inside the
detention center. She said the
facility seems worse than jail
because visitors cannot touch
or hug detainees and must talk
to them on a telephone.
“He has been in detention
for almost nine months,”
Belcore said in a phone
interview from her home in
Chicago. “He’s been sepa-
rated from his children. It is
really hard for him.” Walls
said Crapser is married and
has four children.
Belcore said Crapser was
wearing what looked like
hospital scrubs, the uniform
for detainees, and that Immi-
gration Judge John C. O’Dell
appeared matter-of-fact as he
announced his deportation
verdict.
In an email, Walls said
Adam was eligible for a
deportation reprieve called
“cancellation of removal,” but
the “judge decided he did not
deserve this relief.”
“He will be deported as
soon as Immigration and
Customs Enforcement makes
the necessary arrangements,”
Walls said. “Adam, his family,
and advocates are heartbroken
at the outcome.”
Kathryn Mattingly, a
spokeswoman with the
Executive Office for Immi-
gration Review of the U.S.
Department of Justice, said
in an email that she could
not provide confirmation or
details of the hearing without
an alien registration number
for Crapser and possibly a
privacy waiver. Walls said she
would seek permission from
Crapser later to provide that
information.
Belcore said she feels
lucky that her adoptive parents
obtained her U.S. citizenship.
“A lot of times, parents
simply didn’t know that they
were supposed to do it,” she
said.
“It seems so wrong and so
inhumane” for Crapser to be
sent to South Korea, Belcore
said. “Without knowing the
language and the culture, it
will be so difficult to survive.”
ROME (AP) — A
pair of strong aftershocks
shook central Italy late
Wednesday,
crumbling
churches and buildings,
knocking out power and
sending panicked residents
into the rain-drenched
streets just two months
after a powerful earthquake
killed nearly 300 people.
But hours after the
temblors hit, there were no
reports of serious injuries
or signs of people trapped
AP Photo/Sandro Perozzi
in rubble, said the head
Church of San Sebastiano stands amidst dam-
of Italy’s civil protection The
aged houses in Castelsantangelo sul Nera, Italy,
agency, Fabrizio Curcio. Wednesday following an earthquake.
A handful of people were
treated for slight injuries or actually aftershocks to the stronger at 6.1, according to
anxiety at area hospitals in Aug. 24 quake that struck a the U.S. Geological Survey.
the most affected regions broad swath of central Italy, Because many residents
buildings had already left their homes
of Umbria and Le Marche, demolishing
he said. A 73-year-old in three towns and their with plans to spend the
man died of a heart attack, hamlets, seismologists said. night in their cars or else-
possibly brought on by the Several towns this time where, they weren’t home
quakes, local authorities around also suffered serious when the second aftershock
told the ANSA news damage, with homes in the hit two hours later, possibly
epicenter of Visso spilling saving lives, officials said.
agency.
‘’It was an unheard-of
“All told, the informa- out into the street.
The first struck at violence. Many houses
tion so far is that it’s not
as catastrophic” as it could 7:10 p.m. and carried a collapsed,” the mayor of
magnitude of 5.4. But the hard-hit Ussita, Marco
have been, Curcio said.
The temblors were second one was eight times Rinaldi, told Sky TG24.
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the past several weeks.
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has secured the support of 90
percent of likely Democratic
voters, and also has the
backing of 15 percent of more
moderate Republicans. Just
79 percent of all Republicans
surveyed say they are voting
for their party’s nominee.
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