Helicopter ‘Sand-Blasts’ Line 3 Opponents, 200 Arrested at Peaceful Protest – The Energy Mix:

In a widely-shared video first posted to Twitter by Minnesota Public
Radio, an AS350 helicopter can be seen using its downwash to
“sand-blast” some 500 Indigenous and allied protestors who had turned
out to blockade an active pump station along Line 3, writes
climate journalist Emily Atkin in her Heated newsletter. While pilot’s
intentions remain unclear, Atkin writes, the Department of Homeland
Security helicopter hovered largely above a group who had chained
themselves to Enbridge’s construction equipment—and thus were unable to
flee.

Helicopter ‘Sand-Blasts’ Line 3 Opponents, 200 Arrested at Peaceful Protest – The Energy Mix: In a widely-shared video first posted to Twitter by Minnesota Public
Radio, an AS350 helicopter can be seen using its downwash to
“sand-blast” some 500 Indigenous and allied protestors who had turned
out to blockade an active pump station along Line 3, writes
climate journalist Emily Atkin in her Heated newsletter. While pilot’s
intentions remain unclear, Atkin writes, the Department of Homeland
Security helicopter hovered largely above a group who had chained
themselves to Enbridge’s construction equipment—and thus were unable to
flee.Read More