1,000 Words: The assault on the pipeline protest
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This picture, from the Morton County, N.D., Sheriff's Department, from the scene of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest could -- and should -- spark another discussion about that equipment the U.S. government gave away to police departments with all the money it had to fight terrorism.
Is this pretty much what they had in mind when launching the "war on terrorism?"

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