Minnesota Judge Dismisses Line 3 Charges Against Indigenous Water Protectors

“To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,” the judge said of the charges against three Anishinaabe activists.

In a remarkable ruling last Thursday, a Minnesota judge summarily dismissed misdemeanor charges against three Anishinaabe water protectors who had protested at a pipeline construction site in an effort to stop the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline. “To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,” she concluded. Judge Leslie Metzen relied on a rarely used Minnesota statute that allows a…

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