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An arrest warrant has been issued for journalist Amy Goodman, who filmed Dakota Access Pipeline protest.

Journalist Amy Goodman recently filmed the Dakota Access Pipeline company turning dogs on protesters; now, there’s a warrant out for her arrest in Morton County, North Dakota.

“This is an unacceptable violation of freedom of the press,” Goodman said in a statement, according to Democracy Now!, the publication for which she works. “I was doing my job by covering pipeline guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters.” Goodman is being charged with one offense.

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“The media can be the greatest force for peace on Earth. Instead, all too often, from the Vietnam War, to Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria today, it is wielded as a weapon of war. And that has to be challenged.”

– Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now!, an independent daily global news hour. Read about her recent speech at the University of Michigan. (via democracynow)