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Photo by Emma Campbell and Mitch Stookey Police told the caretakers the injunction lines would be clearly marked according to the GPS coordinates listed in the court document, and instead they taped off the public access road that leads up to the top of the mountain and Horizons restaurant, and then proceeded to push that line further and further out, choking peaceful protesters and throwing an elderly women to the ground. Police said protesters would be given the opportunity to stand in the safe zone without being arrested, and instead grabbed multiple people, dragged them across the police line, and arrested them.In spite of most of the media coverage focusing on the middle-class white person angle, some of the most powerful forces behind the blockade have been indigenous women.
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