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On the recordMarch 2, 2022
So what we are seeing here is that local police departments on fossil fuel extraction-sites that are placed strategically on reservations and native lands, those fossil fuel companies pay local police departments to protect their extraction-sites, even when workers are raping and murdering indigenous women?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez highlights the complicity of police in protecting fossil fuel companies at the expense of indigenous women.

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