What we've been talking about for awhile now: the increasing criminalization of protest, the militarization of policing, and the corruption of democracy and rule of law through privatized (paramilitary) policing: Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”

All of which offers more support for our thesis about the inherent (and increasing) criminality of the fossil fuel industry.  More troubling, we see the blurred lines between public law enforcement and these private mercenary contractors.  Troubling signs of the lengths that the fossil fuel industry and those sectors of law enforcement without the principle to question them will go to defend the interests of private fossil fuel capital.

Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”

See also, Ruth Hopkins' earlier report on private security at NoDAPL: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40681-footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army