"We might very well suspect that the law enforcement personnel in Euro-American North Dakota who drenched the Native American water protectors with water cannons in sub-freezing weather and injured many of them have been encouraged to be as tough as they like consequent on the election of a bigoted racist pro-oil pro-pipeline climate-change-denying bully for president."

What a bigoted statement.   The Dakota have so much as said they will not leave by peaceful means. The immediate looking to the race of those using water-cannons on those disobeying a court order is almost amusing.  But has Mr. Caponigro even checked the race of the law-enforcers?  Does it dawn on him that some of them may have been black, hispanic, or even Indian?