Dakota County sheriff: ‘We’re not involved at pipeline protest’
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Dakota County Sheriff Tim Leslie is getting tired of the phone calls about the protest by the Standing Rock Sioux over a planned oil pipeline.
That's North Dakota, he tells the geographically challenged. His county -- the one in Minnesota -- is practically in Wisconsin, nowhere near North Dakota or the scene of the protest.
The pipeline protest is taking place in Morton County, N.D.
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