{"id":1223825,"date":"2023-09-23T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=743e2b11f916fb19a2abc42d46f7ae14"},"modified":"2023-09-23T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:49:12","slug":"minnesota-judge-dismisses-line-3-charges-against-indigenous-water-protectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/23\/minnesota-judge-dismisses-line-3-charges-against-indigenous-water-protectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Judge Dismisses Line 3 Charges Against Indigenous Water Protectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. &ldquo;To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,&rdquo; she concluded. Judge Leslie Metzen relied on a rarely used Minnesota statute that allows a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/minnesota-judge-dismisses-line-3-charges-against-indigenous-water-protectors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo criminalize their behavior would be the crime,\u201d the judge said of the charges against three Anishinaabe activists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223828,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223825\/revisions\/1223828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}