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(Bemidji, MN) — Bemidji police report 11 oil pipeline protesters were arrested Friday for refusing to leave Enbridge property. Officers say the demonstrators used bicycle locks and other devices to chain themselves to the fence and gates to the Enbridge offices. The locking devices were eventually removed and 11 were taken to the Beltrami County jail.
Four arrested were from Missouri, three came from Illinois, one was from Wisconsin and one woman wouldn’t identify herself.
Twenty-one-year-old Carly Benusa of Moorhead and 21-year-old Leah Stillman from Minnetonka were the only two Minnesotans cited for trespassing and obstructing the legal process.
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