This says it all in a nutshell.

The aftermath of the DAPL controversy is about more than the pipeline, protests and policing costs. It highlights the corruption within the ranks of the federal government, which neglected to enforce standard USACE protest permitting procedures, drew out the process, and failed to assist law enforcement in any meaningful way. 

Political expediency meant government officials chose to put protesters above established legal procedures, without considering the damage it would cause.

And this is a pattern of behavior for the federal government as seen in several instances of them not doing a damn thing to curb the violence in 2020 and any other time blm, their contemporaries and their supporters laid seige to towns, cities and neighborhoods. And, yes, even the Capitol building on January 6th.

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