US Nevada Rangers plow truck through Extinction Rebellion protest after the activists blocked road into Burning Man - WTF I love Reservation Police now?!

Tribal cops have smashed through a climate protest blocking the road to Burning Man in Nevada – as footage shows them taking a no-nonsense approach to the activists.

Video shows around six activists from Seven Circles and Extinction Rebellion blocking a road with a trailer, causing traffic chaos and miles-long gridlock.

The demonstrators locked themselves on to the trailer and appeared to clash with those trying to attend Burning Man, before police were called on Sunday.

Rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department of Nevada drove straight through the blockade and quickly began arresting demonstrators on the road as they sobbed: 'We're non-violent'.

One tribal officer got out of the vehicle and ordered a woman to the floor at gunpoint before telling her to 'stop resisting' arrest.

Another can be heard asking a protestors 'who has the gun', as the protestors say 'we have no weapons at all, we're environmental protestors'.

Guardian journalist Michelle Hooq claimed on social media that the Rangers attended the protest after receiving a call that 'someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists'.

DailyMail.com did not immediately receive a response to a request for comment from Extinction Rebellion, Seven Circles or the PLPTPD.

One ranger could be heard saying that the protestors were 'trespassing on tribal land', before several were arrested and taken into custody.

Social media for Rave Revolution posted the footage and captioned it: 'Nevada Ranger rammed into the blockade, an officer pulled out his gun and threatened to shoot.

'Activists from Extinction Rebellion and Rave Revolution Global were demanding that the festival ban private jets and single-use plastics.'

Photos from the protest show an XR banner that says 'Ban Private Jets', as well as other signs which say 'Burners of the world unite, and 'abolish capitalism'.

Last year Rave Revolution installed a 'climate-related art piece' at Burning Man, and said that their 'feedback was excellent' so they were looking for an 'expanded presence' in 2023.

Extinction Rebellion has not yet released an official statement on the protest, but the Seattle branch of the group tweeted: 'Why would a police officer risk public safety like that?'

Seven Circles say that their aim is to 'draw attention to capitalism's inability to address climate and ecological breakdown'.

Protestors said they were also against 'the popularization of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event.'

Mun Chong, an Extinction Rebellion protestor, said: 'The time has come. Burning Man should aim to have the same type of political impact that Woodstock had on counter-culture.

'If we are honest about system change, it needs to start at 'home'. Ban the lowest hanging fruit immediately: private jets.

'No single individual should have the luxury of emitting 10 to 20 times more carbon pollution than a commercial airline passenger. Burners, rebel with us.'

They claim Burning Man's apolitical stance is 'detrimental to its claimed values, especially as carbon emissions continue to rise despite government and corporate commitments to reduce carbon emissions by more than half by 2030.'

Thomas Diocano, co-founder of Rave Revolution, added: 'We do not have a climate problem, the climate is behaving exactly in line with the laws of physics.

'We have an economic system problem, and that economic system is capitalism. History shows that capitalism cannot be reformed.

'It cannot be changed from the 'inside'. Are we really ready to sacrifice everything for an outdated, unequal economic system? The time to evolve has come.'

Among its demands are that Burning Man leadership 'advocate for system change on both political and economic levels' and ban private jets, single-use plastics, 'unnecessary propane burning and unlimited generator use' at the nine-day event.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12453081/Nevada-Rangers-Extinction-Rebellion-protest-activists-blocked-road-Burning-Man.html

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[PixarsTedKennedy]

These people do not play games, they will shoot police and active military members if it means protecting what's theirs. That my friends is as based as you can get.

I worked with a bunch when I was 19 doing construction with my uncle in Arizona. They were all really cool and we made fun of the Mexicans together. I only wished things could have worked out better a couple hundred years ago. They would be a great ally against niggers.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Some of these tribes have their own judges, courthouses and parallel legal systems?

There are lots of tribal police up here but I'm certain there's no on-site court.

I've never really considered what the tribal police actually do with their perps.

 

[DavidS877]

Some of these tribes have their own judges, courthouses and parallel legal systems?

There are lots of tribal police up here but I'm certain there's no on-site court.

I've never really considered what the tribal police actually do with their perps.

Google says they have a court, which almost certainly means a local jail as well.

Here's the website, they also have the court docket, but nothing for this week posted yet. https://plpt.nsn.us/tribal-court/

 

[WonderWino]

This was blocking a tribal road onto tribal land ON tribal land. A clear cut violation of the tribe's and rez's autonomy.

Nobody owns the road, or any road except the government. The tribe at best owns the land a certain distance from it. They literally cannot own the road. The same as you can't own a road going through your private property

There are well established precedents about protests involving blocking roads. Its legal so long as you don't block emergency vehicles from getting through. Hell the natives pull that shit themselves on a fairly regular basis, so they should be careful about pointing fingers and making accusations

I don't know the specifics of that particular tribe, but some tribes you can't even get a lawyer unless its from the tribe. You go in front of the tribal judge, he listens to the tribe, you can say something in your defense, then they make their decision and you won't like it if you're white. Even the lawyers guild guy is in deep shit.

You're entitled to the lawyer of your choice no matter what the circumstances are or where, so long as you can afford to pay for one. If you can't you're still entitled to a public defender. No tribe has any say in that, nor do they have a choice to not allow you representation. That would be an explicit civil rights violation

They were told "Get your leader out her to talk to me" and then the protesters ignored them, like they're used to doing. So the rez cops flat out let them have a taste of what the rez rats and drunken white people get. Rez cops flat out tell you "I WILL kill you." because, well, they will.

The rez cop committed a serious crime when he threatened to murder them. That makes it a matter for the feds. End of story. and no, they won't kill you unless they're idiots. That would also get outside authorities involved and land them in prison, as well as sued by the victims family. Murder is a crime on the rez just like it is everywhere else. They have no authority to threaten or murder anyone under any circumstances. This isn't a speeding ticket or a drunk and disorderly incident. Murder, including threatening murder is not a matter for a 'rez court' They have neither the authority nor the ability to deal with such things. Thats a federal matter in this situation

The Rez Rangers gave the idiots a chance to move. They, instead, sat there chanting thinking that nothing could happen to them like all the other protests where they can just ignore cops, who then stand around helplessly.

Which limits the authority of the rez cops to removing them. Not threatening to murder them or assaulting them. There are significant limits on legal use of force, particularly when the people in question were non violent and unarmed. Cops don't get to outright threaten to murder people. Rez cops or otherwise

I think everyone knows that reservation land is within its own legal system, but they underestimate how much. If you are under reservation law, you have no Constitutional rights. No Miranda rights, no right to a phone call, no right to even have representation, no right to a trial by a jury of your peers, none of it. The Constitution does not apply.

Horseshit. What you're talking about refers to natives and only natives and only natives on native reserves, in internal tribal matters and then only so long as it doesn't violate any laws, which what you're describing does. Aside from the fact the supreme court has stated tribes have no criminal authority over non natives, with very limited exceptions - such as tribal cops being able to pull you over for, issue tickets and whatnot for violations like any cop would do, the constitution does apply and has since the indian civil rights act was passed and instituted protections under the US bill of rights on reserves

So yes you have plenty of rights. The claim of being able to deprive someone of proper legal representation, a proper trial appropriate to the crime, appropriate access to communication is crazy talk. If you try to kill somebody on a rez for example you're going to prison, but not before you've had your day in court with legal representation. What you're suggesting amounts to little more than kidnapping and significant civil rights violations. All the rez cops can do is arrest you and call the cops to pick you up as far as actual criminal prosecution goes

Hell the very case you're citing is frequently cited in reference to small shit like traffic violations., which is expected as part of their job. Not serious crimes. see oliphant v suquamish indian tribe, 1978. The supreme court made it quite clear that tribal courts do not have criminal jurisdiction over non indians for any conduct that occurred on indian land. This was later amended to allow the tribal courts limited jurisdiction in matters of domestic violence that occurred on indian land. Something to do with non natives/native domestic violence rates as a way protecting said native women. Which everybody knows is nonsense given that DV incidents are off the chart on reserves and its overwhelmingly native on native but thats another discussion. But even then they are required by law to provide licensed attorneys to defend said non natives, no differently than any other court

'A tribe may also retain inherent power to exercise civil authority over the conduct of non-Indians on fee lands within its reservation when that conduct threatens or has some direct effect on the political integrity, the economic security, or the health or welfare of the tribe.'
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/450/544/

Blocking a road definitely applies. They are beyond fucked if they try to fight this.

No, they're not 'beyond fucked.' They have as solid of a case as it gets. They have the cop on video, threatening to murder them, while acting like he's going to truck of peace them and then immediately pulling a gun on them in a manner that could have easily been taken as being about to kill everybody and provoked an incident that would have left him and/or multiple people dead. The cop acted well outside of the authority of any cop anywhere when he crossed that line. Again, the bill of rights applies on the rez, which means freedom of speech and expression apply. and as so many asshole DAs like to point out when their pet BLM and antifa tards block roads, or when the natives do it themselves, its protected as a form of protest so long as it stays peaceful and nobody prevents emergency vehicles passage when necessary. But none of that changes the fact that even if this wasn't the case, you don't get to threaten to murder people and then do things immediately after to reinforce that threat. There is a right way and a wrong way to do his job and he crossed a big line with what he did. The protesters have every right to go after him legally for that

I'll say it again. That cop is an idiot who is asking for a darwin award or a prison cell. Threatening to murder people while in a vehicle driving toward them, let alone immediately getting out and pulling a gun like you're going to go on a shooting spree is how you provoke an incident. The cop is lucky he didn't get shot doing that

The protesters are dumbshits, but that doesn't mean the idiot cop didn't act well outside of what he's legally allowed to do

 

[mindlessobserver]

These people do not play games, they will shoot police and active military members if it means protecting what's theirs. That my friends is as based as you can get.

That aside, if you watch the full video, the tribal police commander pulled up and said "get out of the fucking road. You have 30 seconds. Leaders come talk to me". At which point I assume that when the bitch and green hat ran up he told them they had 15 seconds to get out of the road. 15 seconds later the second truck rammed the barricade and 5 seconds after that the entire crew was at gun point.

Its honestly a fascinating watch. Its the purest form of culture shock I have ever seen captured on raw film, because it depicted a bunch of entitled white people acting like monkeys in what they assumed was a safe white country. But it wasn't. Due to their manifest ignorance they had crossed an international border they didn't even knew existed and were now acting like white monkeys in a foreign land that was not prepared or willing to put up with them. And they got smacked down. Hard. What's even funnier was Green Hat and the protest Organizer assuming they could get away with it by not participating. Unfortunate for them they had stepped off the State Highway. Green Hat guy in particular is visibly taking notes while not on the pavement.


which means they were trespassing on tribal lands. Which is in and of itself a crime.

Bet they didn't know that either. Which made the "You can't do this!" quote with the rejoinder "You are trespassing" all the more chef's kiss. There is a little known part of the U.S. Code. Title 25. It deals with Indian Land recognized by the US Federal Government. Pursuant to Department of the Interior Rules, the Native Tribes MUST allow for right of way. But the right of way only extends to the road itself, and any supporting structures (such as gas stations) upon it. Stepping off the road into the agriculture lands (which all reservations are) is a Violation of United States Code, Title 25 section 3713 and you can be subject to immediate arrest by tribal police for it.

Furthermore, if the trespass was in furtherance of another crime (such as blocking a roadway), then under section 163.29 of Title 25, the Trespass becomes a criminal matter in which the offenders must be prosecuted by the State in which the trespass occurred, or if unavailable by the Federal Government. In addition the Tribe will have civil cause of action again the offending party to recoup the losses in civil court for any measures to ameliorate the damage resulting from the trespass.

Which means the Paiute Indian Tribe may have cause for a civil defamation case against extinction rebellion for their smearing of the tribal police, under Title 25. Oh boy will that employ lawyers for the next decade. At a minimum however, under Title 25 Extinction rebellion is liable for the cost of sending the officers out, the cost of jailing their protestors, any damage to tribal vehicles resulting from the protest, and all costs related to their illegal blockade of the right way, which included stepping off the federal right of way and onto tribal lands to block traffic attempting avoid their blockade of the federal right of way by utilizing tribal land. In clear violation of Title 25, section 163.29.

At a minimum however, these idiots have no leg to stand on. Even if the Paiute don't seek civil and criminal charges against them, Title 25 immunizes them from their actions because Extinction Rebellion deliberately and willfully violated the U.S. Code and the Treaty between the US Federal Government and the Paiute Nation.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

"We have no weapons at all! We're environmental protesters!"

Go extinct, it's okay.

 

[Vecr]

Its legal so long as you don't block emergency vehicles from getting through

They were blocking emergency vehicles, there's an ambulance in the video. It's reasonably likely that was not related to the decision to ram though.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

I'm surprised the NLG let it go on if that was the case. That pretty clearly is a threat to public safety. Being trapped in a harsh environment like that because of someone's malicious actions opens them to a HUGE amount of liability. The only reason it didn't get out of hand is because everyone stuck in that traffic jam pooled their resources to make sure that other people who were having problems were okay.

You misunderstand: NLG aren't tard-wranglers, they're tard-enablers, and strictly speaking observers aren't lawyers iirc. An easy misconception given the organization both exists and is called the "national lawyers guild".

They operate like they do specifically to avoid any responsibility for anything that happens: observers are typically just randos that want to shitstir and network without actually putting their ass on the line (so, college educated sociopaths) but by not being lawyers any and all ethical duties a lawyer might otherwise have are irrelevant, and the lawyers themselves (the "guild" proper) are just a loose knit (officially) group of lawyers which make themselves available as part of the membership to help ensure that everyone who torched downtown last night is out in time for tonight...but they don't "support" or "do" anything besides provide 1-800-UNARRST numbers (of which there are many) that all rioters conveniently have as well as pro-bono representation.

They've got no liability for anything that happens by design, even though no honest person can say that with a straight face.

We can just ignore the part where the NLG have played an active role in helping wanted fugitives evade arrest for crimes like real-ass bombings because reasons.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

The protesters are dumbshits, but that doesn't mean the idiot cop didn't act well outside of what he's legally allowed to do

It's on Tribal Land and they can arrest non-members, SCOTUS rulings on that are very clear. Tribal law enforcement is pretty much immunized because any legal action against them regarding their actions on tribal land has to be adjudicated in a tribal court. The state or federal government doesn't have police powers in tribal jurisdictions and tribes have sovereign immunity against state tort claims. It's confusing until you realize they are considered sovereign nations within the US.

 

[pwnest injun]

Got the catch of the Tribal police tackling the "observer".

One Reservation cop to the other in thick Injun accent "He's taking notes"

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Oh you love to fucking see it. Hurr durr. I am just taking notes for the lawsuit! totally not involved! .

He's lucky that he's not buried up to his neck in a fire ant colony.

 

[Wodanaz]

There are well established precedents about protests involving blocking roads. Its legal so long as you don't block emergency vehicles from getting through. Hell the natives pull that shit themselves on a fairly regular basis, so they should be careful about pointing fingers and making accusations

yea I'd love to see some libshit faggot lawyer argue this in court, about 100+ degree desert conditions, 50 miles from the nearest hospital. you're clutching a lot of pearls over the phrase "I'm going to take all of you out" as if he was threatening to murder them. and implying drawing your gun on uncooperative retards is unsual. yep your honor, this man was clearly an uncivilized savage who needs to be taught better manners by the whitoids on the supreme court. you can't just go around saying these things. lmao good luck with that, and thanks mr biden as well. you can't negotiate with terrorists.

 

[Cuckoman]

I don't know what the rebellion cocksucking is all about but the concept that a cop can not pull a gun in a volatile situation and tell everyone to get to the ground right now in order to get control of the situation while a potential crime is in progress is ridiculous.
The crime stopped and no one got hurt. That sounds like exemplary police work to me.

Cops do this all the time and in some situations they need to be able to do this to control the situation. Good luck trying to get a tribal court to rule against the tribal cops for quickly and professionally stopping a crime in progress, lol.

 

[The Dude]

Stupid fucking neo-hippies. I'm sick of these self-righteous cunts feeling like they're able to do whatever they want, including trespassing and damaging private property, because they're "on the right side of history". Get fucked you worthless shits.

 

['Ole Dente]

Its honestly a fascinating watch. Its the purest form of culture shock I have ever seen captured on raw film, because it depicted a bunch of entitled white people acting like monkeys in what they assumed was a safe white country. But it wasn't.

I know, right. It's a strange thing to watch, these people live in cultural bubbles by their own choosing and when they are subjected to frankly what is the other 99% of the world, shit happens and people get hurt. Mommy might've taken away your iPad at home but life is not like that, there are plenty of people myself included who will not give you a slap on the wrist for your fucking tantrums. We will beat the brakes off you and make you swallow your molars if you cross a line you shouldn't cross....and sometimes that means delaying my vacation or making me late for work.

 

[Bill Evans 45]

Telegraph, Times, various media channels, are already catching shit for trying to blame "Nevada" for this. I genuinely think the Europeans and even these Southern Californian and New York idiots had no idea what they were doing. They had no fucking idea where they were.

I was told of this by an Irish* relative who lives in rural** fucking Mayo. He's 17 and the subject line was 'Don"t fuck around in the rez lol.' He's 17 and even he knows this. How can these actual Americans be this stupid? Is it idiocy or arrogance?

*Actual Irish, not 11th generation Bohstin 'Irish'.
**I say rural. But it's miles of fuck all there to be fair.

 

[Cuckoman]

How can these actual Americans be this stupid? Is it idiocy or arrogance?

They are white liberal women.

They genuinely believe that minorities and natives are lesser people that have no agency of their own so that when they (white liberal woman, saviour of the lesser demi-humans) move in and do something they genuinely believe these lesser demi-humans will go "thankyou white woman for telling me how to live my life and what to do, because as a savage I couldn't make it without your help. Thankyou for protecting me and standing up for my rights because as a savage I am too incompetent to stand up for myself. Without your wise white woman guidance I would never survive.'

And when the bipoc native savage rejects the white woman saviour, white woman will shout racial slurs at them.

And it is the trump supporters that are the racist ones. Yeah, sure.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Nobody owns the road, or any road except the government.

This isn't necessarily true. A lot of roads on reservations are formally owned by the tribe, while maintained and funded by the bureau of Indian affairs.

But that aside, whether the road is owned by the tribe, the state, or the federal government means jack shit if it's inside the border of a reservation. That border is what determines the operating jurisdiction. Rez police can do whatever they want within that jurisdiction.

 

[Depressed_Oni]

Glad to see Rez police doing what the rest of American proper police can’t do. The fact that these people thought they could keep people in a desert at 100 degrees and fuck with people who arguably agree with them is funny to me. I’m also surprised to see a guy in this thread writing a college thesis about the big scary police officer oppressing the white students who are retarded and on their land being dickheads.

 

[Lone Star]

It's cathartic seeing these dipshits being treated as they deserve. Really hope it becomes an ongoing trend of these idiots getting arrested and assaulted.

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

Such a shame these rez cops can't take scalps.
I'm still happy they got a little rough with these yuppie protestors.