A dozen people protesting the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline were arrested this afternoon in the Financial District, the Chron reports.
.@Citi is one of the top funders of the dirty, dangerous #DakotaAccessPipeline. Enough is enough! #NoDAPL pic.twitter.com/U1kDKaa9HR
— Elise Nabors (@elNabors) October 31, 2016
Protesters took to the lobby of 1 Sansome St., Citibank's local headquarters, urging the financial institution to pull its funding for the $3.8 billion crude oil pipeline that will pass through four Midwestern states—and beneath the Missouri River, the primary drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North and South Dakota.
The Chron reports that the local protesters locked themselves to one another and blocked the building's ground-floor elevators. They refused to assent to SFPD's dispersal orders, resulting in 12 arrests on suspicion of trespassing.
More than 140 protesters were arrested on the ground in North Dakota last week, and CNN reports that hundreds of thousands of people are checking in at the pipeline site on Facebook in solidarity.
