{"id":116255,"date":"2017-02-14T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116255"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:37:34","slug":"house-bill-aimed-at-dapl-protesters-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=116255","title":{"rendered":"House Bill aimed at DAPL protesters fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_116258\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116258\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116258\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/brandenburgmike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/brandenburgmike.jpg 157w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/brandenburgmike-125x175.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-116258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Brandenburg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Legislation aimed squarely at protesters who blocked some roads in North Dakota during the Dakota Access pipeline demonstrations has failed in the state House.<\/p>\n<p>The bill said a driver who \u201cunintentionally\u201d caused an injury or death to a person blocking a road would not be charged. The legislation\u2019s primary sponsor, Republican Rep. Keith Kempenich, said the legislation moves responsibility to the \u201cinitiating party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another sponsor, <strong>Edgeley Republican Rep. Mike Brandenburg <\/strong>told legislators the protesters have blocked roads, pounded on cars and left people frightened.<\/p>\n<p>Rolla Democratic Rep. Marvin Nelson says the bill is an over-reaction to the protest and could have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The bill failed on a 50-41 vote Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Legislation aimed squarely at protesters who blocked some roads in North Dakota during the Dakota Access pipeline demonstrations has failed in the state House. The bill said a driver who \u201cunintentionally\u201d caused an injury or death to a person blocking a road would not be charged. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116332,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116255\/revisions\/116332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}