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?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “So what we are seeing here is that local police departments on fossil fuel extraction-sites that are placed…”
On the recordMarch 2, 2022
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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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