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Something changed for Jerry Thex when he saw a Sept. 3 video of Dakota Access Pipeline security using dogs to drive protesters off private land.
He got frustrated.
Another video on Nov. 2 showed police in riot gear firing rubber bullets and pepper spray at protesters, who were approaching the shoreline during a water demonstration in Cantapeta Creek north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
“I couldn’t even finish the videos the other day,” said Thex, a Northern Cheyenne tribal member.
Missoulian editor Kathy Best tells readers how the newsroom created this historic A1, and the reason their papers may have been late the day after the election. “If your Missoulian arrived late to your home Wednesday morning – or didn’t arrive at all in the mail – we hope you’ll forgive us. We had to make one of the hardest choices in journalism: honor the news or honor the deadline. We chose the news.”
GOING-TO-THE-SUN-ROAD – As firefighter-plumbed sprinklers spit water around the Rising Sun Motor Inn on Thursday, trees underneath a cliff, maybe 50 yards behind the general store, torched into balls of flame. - Vince Devlin, Missoulian. Photo by Tom Bauer.
“Marvis “Adam” Dobbs ran his hand across the floor of the helicopter in a slow circle before slapping the metal with his palm and climbing aboard.” - Reporter Dillon Kato of the Missoulian.
Missoulian photo editor Kurt Wilson took the shot.
J is for Judith Gap is the most recent featured letter in the Alphabet series by the Missoulian. Story by Vince Devlin, and photos by editor Kurt Wilson.