[Oe List ...] Report fom North Dakota

[Judi White via OE]

What an eye opener. From prayer circle to war front  How can this happen,
Lord?

On Nov 21, 2016 4:29 PM, "Ellie Stock via OE" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Thanks, Jann for the updates...so sad, tragic and unnecessary...
>
> Ellie
> elliestock at aol.com
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> Subject: [Oe List ...] Report fom North Dakota
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> Posted by my friend Mia Beale.
>
> Jann
> John BraveBull <https://www.facebook.com/john.bravebullbaker?fref=nf>
> <https://www.facebook.com/john.bravebullbaker?fref=nf>
> 9 hrs
> <https://www.facebook.com/john.bravebullbaker/posts/10211164522099066> ·
> I'm sure you're reading a lot of stories about tonight... here's mine. I
> woke up in Rapid City, refreshed and bound for Standing Rock. It was a good
> day. I needed a break so I took a couple days. As we traveled north the
> mood got somber. We live on edge there, fear some where deep inside the
> brain things are going to get bad.
> Tonight they did. As we crossed the border onto our reservation the live
> feeds of an action started chirping in our notifications. They were from a
> distance and all we could hear was chaos. So I stopped at moms to tell her
> I loved her and that I was going to the front. Not to worry cause I heard
> it was a prayer gathering and I'd be home soon. We met at the casino and
> geared up. As I gathered goggles and face shields I was a little
> embarrassed that I was going to be over dressed for a prayer... but I
> didn't know what I was walking into. I wanted it to be just a prayer circle
> but I was hearing whispers it was so much more.
> Oh shit. After we parked and headed to the bridge, people were being
> walked out with injuries. Where are my friends? Just turn around John but
> we both know I can't. First person I saw was Tito, he gave me an update as
> I watched the police spray a water cannon into the crowd in sub freezing
> weather after dark. He said tear gas and my focus was back on him. What
> the... no words. I choked up. I got scared and then I shook it off cause it
> was time to go to work. I could see people hurt and needing help.
> Chad Charlie <https://www.facebook.com/thachaddd>... damn good to see his
> face. We caught up and watched. Watched as tear gas containers exploded mid
> air raining down smoking fragments that were still burning. Watching as
> people were being soaked with a water cannon. Shots. Some one was hit we
> ran to her scooped her into our arms and ran her back to medics. This was
> our role for the next five hours, pulling about forty people out. Some
> cause of shock. Some cause of breathing issues from the gas. Some just
> because they needed someone to tell them it was ok to pull back. Five will
> stay with me forever. The first was a young lady that was unconscious as we
> carried her. I didn't even realize she was out. I hope she is ok. I worry
> for her family. The second was a lady that was shot in the leg and told us
> she was ok as we carried her out and that she didn't want to take away from
> some one who needed help. As we carried her the crowd in front of us
> flinched and looked like they were watching a foul ball. We stopped,
> crouched down and protected her as a tear gas canister blew up behind and
> above us and we both got hit in the shoulders. Instant anger in both of us
> but we had to get this lady to a transport so we kept going. The third was
> a young man shot in the back. Before that happened though I caught a
> ricochet that hit me in the hip and was grazed with another behind the
> knee. I was pissed and marched up to the line to find out who the fuck shot
> me... but I couldn't walk so good. So Chad pulled me back and this young
> man had been hit square in the kidney so we picked him up and carried him
> out. The fourth was a man whose arm was broken being walked out by my
> friend Charlie Plenty Wolf and was in complete shock. We had trouble
> getting him to a vehicle to get him to the E.R. The trauma in his eyes...
> the fifth and most haunting was a man who was shot down below on the
> western line. We jumped the guardrail and ran down the hill to extract him.
> He was yelling at the cops who shot him. Holding them accountable and
> refusing to leave. They shot a shield as we were trying to take him out and
> my left eye stung. We literally pulled this man up the hill and over the
> guardrail when we realized he was shot on the top of his head and bleeding.
> Chad demanded he go to medics but he refused. I looked into his eyes and
> told him he was shot in the fucking head. Four of us carried him out. As
> the medics took over I washed his blood off my hands. Think about that. I'm
> standing on the prairie in the freezing cold, wet and hurting washing a
> mans blood off my hands. Oh shit I remembered I got hit in the eye.
> Medic!!! A lady named Victory took care of me. Something was in there but
> they got it out. So so much more shit happened tonight but that's all I got
> right now.
> Except that Chad never left my side. That's important for you to know
> cause we didn't know each other four months ago and we had each other's
> backs like we were childhood friends. Johnny, Načá Wakíš'aka Wiŋ
> <https://www.facebook.com/kels0shmels0> and Khannie were our base camp
> taking care of us as we needed all night. I felt like I was putting them in
> harms way though and I can't shake that.
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