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Police Arrest Ten Protestors on Friday as Pipeline Action Continues

Extinction Rebellion Briefly Stop National Grid Drilling Project as Protestors Place themselves directly in the work zone.

Police Arrest Ten Protestors on Friday as Pipeline Action Continues

Police Arrest Ten Protestors on Friday as Pipeline Action Continues

Extinction Rebellion Briefly Stop National Grid Drilling Project as Protestors Place themselves directly in the work zone.

Police Arrest Ten Protestors on Friday as Pipeline Action Continues
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The battle in Brooklyn over National Grid’s proposed pipeline got hot again Friday morning, after police arrested ten protestors who blocked the pipeline’s construction.

“This was a nonviolent direct action,” Jonathan Minard told Bushwick Daily, who was among those involved with the demonstration. Minard is part of Extinction Rebellion, a protest group that was started in the UK and is known for shutting down locations–the group’s prominence dates to its shutting down a number of bridges in London in 2018.

Extinction Rebellion was also prominently involved in a rally earlier this month that shut down the pipeline’s construction.  

Friday’s protest had began at 8 a.m., when demonstrators who Minard described as new and fresh-faced to the movement, filled the gaping crevices where the thirty-inch pipe was to be…

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Top photo taken by Erik McGregor, courtesy of Extinction Rebellion. 

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