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Aitkin County Sheriff Dan Guida sits on task force.
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The Northern Lights Task Force is comprised of law enforcement leaders from the following counties Kittson, Becker, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Carlton, St. Louis, Aitkin, Kanabec, Clearwater, Polk, Hubbard, Wadena, Cass, Crow Wing, Beltrami, Itasca and the Fond du Lac Reservation. Screenshot
A Northern Lights Task Force has been formed consisting of law enforcement leaders and includes counties in the Brainerd lakes area.
According to a news release, the formation of the task force was discussed in 2016 when it became evident a pipeline would likely be built across northern Minnesota. Numerous law enforcement leaders began initial conversations of what a joint public safety response would look like. As the plans became more formalized on the pipeline, the conversations moved from abstract to concrete with the formation of mutual aid agreements and detailed planning.
Sheriffs task force has been training for pipeline protests
The group s mission is to: “provide a safe environment that protects life, property, and free speech through a respectful approach by well trained, disciplined peace officers relating to the lawful activities conducted by those who wish to exercise their First Amendment rights in Minnesota. “
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Todd Glander, Becker County Sheriff (submitted photo)
In 2016, when it became evident that a pipeline would likely be built across northern Minnesota, numerous law enforcement leaders began initial conversations of what a joint public safety response would look like.
As the plans became more formalized on the pipeline, the conversations moved from abstract to concrete with the formation of mutual aid agreements and detailed planning.
Minnesota lawmakers, activists target violence against Indigenous women Kim Hyatt, Star Tribune
Native and Indigenous women who for years have advocated for those who have vanished or been murdered are feeling fresh hope as the state is taking its first formal steps to combat the epidemic. It s a scary time to be an Indigenous woman, said Taysha Martineau, an Indigenous activist living on the Fond du Lac Reservation. But with all of us working hard together, we ve never been safer.
Minnesota s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force released its report this week after 18 months of research and meetings with survivors, advocates, public health experts and tribal leaders.
In northern Minnesotaâs Aitkin County, just north of the tiny town of Palisade, construction workers are clear-cutting a wide path through the forest near the Mississippi River, heavy equipment rumbling, to make way for the new Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project.Â
And Tania Aubid, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is there to try to stop them. They want to ship the tar sands, toxic oil. ⦠And when that pipeline breaches, it s going to go into the waterways here, she said.Â
Aubid has come to this place every day for more than a week, part of a group of people who call themselves water protectors â there to speak out against the pipeline and, in some cases, put their bodies in the way of construction.