Green Party candidate Jill Stein, along with her running mate Ajamu Baraka, have been charged with criminal trespass and mischief for spray painting a bulldozer at a pipeline protest in North Dakota. About 150 to 200 people were present at the protest.
A video of Stein spray painting the bulldozer was posted on Twitter by a Bismarck news station on Wednesday afternoon.
Presidential candidate .@DrJillStein graffitis #DAPL equipment. pic.twitter.com/utKbzK7wkV
— KX News - Bismarck (@KXMB) September 6, 2016
About two and a half hours later, arrest warrants for Stein and Baraka were issued:
Warrant issued for arrest of @DrJillStein for trespassing and criminal mischief: https://t.co/AU1O9X0Bkw pic.twitter.com/PLz6gUUZQf
— KX News - Bismarck (@KXMB) September 7, 2016
Stein appears to be quite pleased with herself, and tweeted a picture of herself vandalizing the bulldozer.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids. #NoDAPL #StandWithStandingRock pic.twitter.com/f7bErrZtSY
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) September 7, 2016
Well, that's one way to get your name in the press.
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