A total of 33 Dakota Access Pipeline protesters were arrested Friday and N.D. Highway 6 was closed for part of the day after a group marched onto an active pipeline construction site.
Videos posted around 10 a.m. on social media Friday showed protesters standing in front of construction equipment to stop it at a site where workers had been doing reclamation work, replacing dirt where pipeline has been laid.
Protesters shown on the videos called on the Barack Obama administration to stop the pipeline. Several have said the goal of their actions was to delay construction, raising the cost for the pipeline's developer, Energy Transfer Partners, in an effort to get them to abandon the project.
"Damaged Caused by Protesters."
"6 police vehicles had their tires slashed."
"DAPL worker pulls gun after protester surround is his vehicle."
