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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JULY 20, 2017 / CSHAGEN / 0 COMMENTS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former guard on life along the pipeline and why he is speaking out</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By C.S. Hagen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BISMARCK – When Kyle Thompson decided to speak out against tactics used along the Dakota Access Pipeline, it wasn’t because of a change of heart.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I’ve always tried to look out for the best interests of everyone,” said Thompson, the former program manager for Leighton Security Services, Inc. “Just because I did security for the pipeline, that doesn’t mean that I necessarily wanted the pipeline in the ground. I didn’t really have a view on the pipeline.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He waited half a year to speak out because he didn’t want his name dragged through the mud any more than it has been in recent months.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I figured it’s time now, and everyone’s court cases are coming up soon,” Thompson said. “Coming out now didn’t really give people a chance to discredit my side of things. I waited so long so that people couldn’t talk more shit about me. I knew once I came out, there were people on water protector side that hate me, and I get it. There’s a lot of people that got charged that were just trying to help each other out.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thompson, 30, took his first step on July 12 during a live feed with Myron Dewey, owner of Digital Smoke Signals, promising information pertaining to security work along the Dakota Access Pipeline. Less than a week after Thompson went live, <b>the state dropped charges against Brennon Nastacio, the Pueblo Native American who was arrested for terrorizing after disarming Thompson while the security employee was en route to Standing Rock’s main camps.</b></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.westfargopioneer.com/news/4149687-authorities-man-gun-near-protest-camp-was-victim-wont-be-charged"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.westfargopioneer.com/news/4149687-authorities-man-gun-near-protest-camp-was-victim-wont-be-charged</font></a></div><div><div id="article-section-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-area: Article-header / Article-header / Article-header / Article-header; background-color: rgb(247, 248, 250);"><section style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 12px; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="article-header-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 3 1 0%; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 12px;"><h1 class="article-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 6px 0px 20px; line-height: 28px; direction: ltr;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Authorities: Man with gun near protest camp was 'victim,' won't be charged</font></h1><div class="article-leadtext" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MANDAN, N.D. - The Morton County Sheriff's Department said it will not file charges against a man who pulled a rifle from his pickup truck as he was confronted by Dakota Access Pipeline protesters Thursday, providing a description of events that ...</font></div><div class="light-grey byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written By: <span id="noLink" class="ttu" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Forum News Service</span> | <time class="timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px;"><b>Nov 1st 2016 </b>- 1pm.</time></font></div></div></div></section></div><div id="article-section-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-area: Article-body / Article-body / Article-body / Article-body; position: relative; margin-right: 20px; background-color: rgb(247, 248, 250);"><div id="top-social-share" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; position: absolute; flex-direction: column; width: 35px; padding: 0px; left: -108px; top: 20px;"><div class="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="main-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><div class="first-p" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>MANDAN, N.D. – The Morton County Sheriff’s Department said it will not file charges against a man who pulled a rifle from his pickup truck as he was confronted by Dakota Access Pipeline protesters Thursday, providing a description of events that differed from the one shared by protesters.</b></font></p></div><div class="p402_premium" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 18px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A department news release issued Tuesday, Nov. 1, said the man was instructed to get pictures of construction equipment parked east of Highway 1806 and had disguised himself so he wouldn’t be singled out as a construction worker on a day when authorities arrested 141 people as they evicted protesters from property owned by the pipeline company.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The man told authorities he heard people gathered outside the construction entrance telling him to leave and then to stop. As he left the area south on Highway 1806, another vehicle deliberately hit him, forcing his pickup through a fence and causing it to get stuck near the Backwater Bridge just north of the main protest camp, the release stated.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The victim saw five individuals coming at his truck and could see large knives in their possession. The man grabbed a rifle to defend himself, he retreated toward the Cannonball River and was pursued. During this time, the victim’s vehicle was also set on fire,” the release stated.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Someone in the crowd had an orange flare gun, and investigators saw video of someone shooting a flare in the man’s direction, the release stated.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The victim had a gun however no shots were identified as being fired from his weapon,” the release stated.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “victim,” Kyle Thompson of Bismarck, posted on Facebook Sunday that he “was in a situation in which <b>myself and others </b>were faced with the difficult decision to take another's life or not.” He wrote that he “was asked if I could get pictures of some equipment that was on fire so I attempted to go and do just that, nothing more nothing less.” His post was consistent with the version of events authorities released Tuesday.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said the man worked for Leighton Security, a Texas firm that was contracted to protect pipeline equipment.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Private security firms had been advised to stay away from the area that law enforcement was working to remove protesters, including Highway 1806 and private property where people had camped, Kirchmeier said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We advised that we didn’t want any of their security people in the area,” he said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tuesday’s news release does not identify Thompson by name or describe the man as a security worker.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MORE FROM DAPL:</font></strong></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.inforum.com/news/4149600-oil-poured-nd-state-capitol-believed-be-related-dapl-protest" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Oil poured on ND state Capitol believed to be related to DAPL protest<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong></font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.inforum.com/opinion/4149644-port-gov-dalrymple-says-he-expects-non-corps-pipeline-construction-completed-matter" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Port: Gov. Dalrymple says he expects non-Corps pipeline construction completed in 'a matter of days'</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.inforum.com/opinion/4149545-port-nd-lt-gov-wrigley-says-pipeline-protest-donations-support-criminal-enterprise" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Port: ND Lt. Gov. Wrigley says pipeline protest donations support a 'criminal enterprise'</font></a></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Although the news release said the man will not face charges, Kirchmeier emphasized Tuesday it’s still an ongoing investigation.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pipeline opponents gave a different version of events last week, with some saying they believed the armed man intended to hurt them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">B.J. Kidder, a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member, said he observed a white pickup with no license plates on County Road 134 and got out of his vehicle to see what the person was up to. Kidder said he saw an AR-15 rifle in the passenger seat and a 30-round clip in the middle console of the truck, which was heading toward Highway 1806 where many people were traveling to the Oceti Sakowin camp.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The truck then turned south onto Highway 1806 and was driving fast and recklessly, nearly striking pedestrians on the side of the road, witnesses said.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.inforum.com/news/4148896-standoff-moorhead-ends-peacefully" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Police release identities of brothers arrested in Moorhead standoff</font></a></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs responded to the incident and detained the man, who was turned over to law enforcement, questioned and released.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“No charges will be filed against this man as he was using the weapon to protect himself,” the sheriff’s department said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier said Saturday he was seeking a full report from the BIA on what occurred and said he thought the man should be charged with attempted murder for pointing the rifle at people.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.inforum.com/news/4149086-sd-landowner-confronts-hunting-party-gun-after-shots-his-home" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">SD landowner confronts hunting party with gun after shots by his home</font></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.cshagen.com/tag/brennon-bj-nastacio/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.cshagen.com/tag/brennon-bj-nastacio/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Nov? Kyle: </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Thompson-Gray LLC, a security firm, ID were found inside the pickup truck. Half a dozen bankrupt variant in different states? Related to subcontractors who supplied attack dogs? </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Private security guy Kyle Thompson tried to infiltrate, assault rifle on passenger seat; driving oddly, got chased, rammed, had </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">AR 15 assault rifle (</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">protesters said he fired twice, FBI says no), at one point confronted by [</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The man who stopped him, <b>Brennon “BJ” Nastacio</b>, a Pueblo Native American from Boulder, Colorado, was placed on Morton County Sheriff’s Department’s Most Wanted List. He turned himself in and now faces felony terrorizing charges</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">.] weeks latter Thompson arrested for hitting a woman in a car; he had pistol, drug paraphernalia and meth.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">[[</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Thompson backed into a nearby body of water, and Nastacio followed while talking to him. According to Nastacio, he </span><a href="https://shadowproof.com/2017/01/03/water-protector-still-faces-felony-confronting-armed-dapl-contractor/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" underline="underline" text-decoration-skip-ink="text-decoration-skip-ink" none="none" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">told</span></a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> Thompson nothing would happen to him if he put down his gun or gave him his gun. He wanted to protect everyone and prevent any incident, where law enforcement might shoot him because Thompson was armed with a rifle and dressed like a water protector.]] shadowproof his young son was in camp, he was worried about gun</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">{ Nastacio is charged under a statute passed in 1968 to allow federal prosecution of mass protests. </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Charged with “impeding law enforcement” during a “civil disorder,</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">” Nastacio faces a</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years</span></span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> if convicted.</span><b> </b></span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"><b>Nestor says this rarely-used federal statute “sets a dangerous precedent, allowing federal prosecution of any mass protest where law enforcement makes claims that it constituted ‘civil disorder.'” May 3 2017}</b></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Nearly all the cops in Battle for Backwater Bridge were from one county?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">The “battle for Backwater Bridge erupted hours after law enforcement cleared “Treaty Camp,” arresting 142 people and pushing activists back two miles making room for Dakota Access Pipeline construction. Two Dakota Access trucks and one vehicle were set on fire near the bridge; an electronic billboard sat charred between them making the road impassable….CSH ten Humvee, two bearcats...</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Elder Miles Allard of Standing Rock</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> negotiated, eagle flew over, protector cheers; </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Kyle T: [[</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">One DAPL security employee armed with an automatic AR-15 was surrounded by activists and then arrested by the Bureau of Indian Affairs </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">after he attempted to drive into the main camp, Dallas Goldtooth said. Goldtooth is a campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">He said he was pepper sprayed on Thursday. Tribal leaders from across the United States were arrested, he said. “They were rounded up and arrested. It was really, really chaotic… Dakota Access is still trying to move ahead with construction.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Noah Morris, a front line medic, said more than 50 people were treated for pepper spray on Thursday. Twelve people suffered blunt-force injuries from nightsticks and percussion grenades, and another activist had a Taser barb imbedded in his cheek.</span></p>
<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Law enforcement also targeted medics on Thursday,</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" font-variant-numeric="font-variant-numeric" normal="normal" font-variant-east-asian="font-variant-east-asian" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap"> Morris said.</span></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div>