**The video below may be disturbing to some individuals and may contain language unsuitable for younger individuals**

Journalist Erin Schrode was interviewing a Dakota Access Pipeline protester. All of a sudden she was shot with a rubber bullet.

Schrode was interviewing a protester on camera when all of a sudden, a bullet strikes her. In the video you can not see where the shot came from or the journalist getting hit. However you can see how others around react and the camera shot become unstable.

Over the last several weeks there have been many conflicting reports about what has been happening at the various protest sites. Protesters claim they are peaceful while law enforcement claims they are not.

We have only one side to this story so it would be unfair to speculate as to why a shot was fired in this instance. Even if the journalist was trespassing, it does not appear she posed any kind of threat that would require the use of force.

We have reached out to the Morton County Sheriff's Office and will update this post if we hear back.

Schrode said the following in a Facebook post to go along with the video:

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO.

 

Speechless. I was shot by militarized police WHILE interviewing a peaceful man at Standing Rock live on camera. I woke up this morning with the thought that I may have that very footage – and broke down in reliving the 40-second horror before my own eyes. Warning: it's very very difficult to watch and sent me into quivers and tears, even without the compounding historic trauma that Native Americans face.

 

I do not wish to divert focus away from the bravery of the Water Protectors, from the power of nonviolent direct action, from the people fighting for their lives and for our futures – but I want you to witness the indiscriminate use of excessive force firsthand. Many have said that militarized police firing a rubber bullet at a female reporter was a fabrication, provoked by violence, or otherwise merited, including a Morton County, North Dakota press release. That is a lie; we have proof and eyewitnesses (cc Josh Fox, Matt McGorry, Jordan Chariton, Josue Rivas, Evan Simon, Josh Fox, Wes Mekasi Horinek, Kendrick Sampson, Doug Pineda, Doug Good Feather and countless more).

 

I was standing innocently onshore, not making any aggressive gestures, never exchanging a single word with the police who fired at my lower back from their boat. Peaceful souls were seeking to cross the river to hold a prayer circle on Army Corps public land, but halted by over one hundred hostile military police armed with and deploying tear gas, pepper spray, batons, and rubber bullets, as well as assault weapons and the threat of jail, only one week after 141 individuals were brutally arrested. I was shot at pointblank range, dozens were maced and pepper sprayed in the face, hundreds faced freezing waters. There were no arrests or deaths and I will be okay physically, but the safety and wellbeing of many peoples and lands remain in danger, for present and future generations.

 

Thank you for your prayers, for your action in calling upon our President, government and Department of Justice to halt this atrocity immediately, for showing up and donating to support this fight for human rights, for the environment, for peace. Please continue to pray for the strength and protection of all peoples, for the physical pain, for the emotional trauma, for the desecrated land. #StandWithStandingRock #NoDAPL

As of this post, the video has been viewed on Facebook over 75,000 times. Her tweet featuring the video has over 2,700 retweets.

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