Big Foot in the Mouth is going to prison!
Jul 8, 2020 13:29:23 #
Mt. Rushmore Protest Leader Hit with Plethora of Charges After Blocking Highway
Erin Coates
One of the leaders of the protest that shut down the highway to Mount Rushmore last Friday prior to President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July celebration at the monument is facing five criminal charges.
On Monday, Nick Tilsen was charged with second-degree robbery and simple assault for allegedly stealing a shield and assaulting a law enforcement officer, the Rapid City Journal reported.
The Porcupine resident and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is also charged with three misdemeanors for impeding a highway, unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.
If he is convicted, Tilsen faces up to 12 years in prison — 10 years for the robbery charge and two years for the simple assault.
The charges at the Pennington County Courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota, come days after 150 demonstrators used vans and their bodies to shut down the road and a checkpoint to Mount Rushmore to protest the president’s visit to the monument.
“The biggest message that we have been trying to send this entire time is that Mount Rushmore is a symbol of w***e s*******y and racial injustice in this country and that the four faces carved on that mountain are the four faces of colonizers who have committed genocide on Indigenous people,” Tilsen told the Rapid City Journal on July 3.
“To have their faces carved on our sacred lands is why it’s an extreme injustice.”
He said that his group took action “because w***e s*******y will not be dismantled if we merely bow down.”
Tilsen was one of 15 people who were purposely arrested in order to bring attention to their cause.
His lawyer and family say that Tilsen was targeted because “he’s been identified as someone who had a leadership role.”
“There’s a long history of persecuting leadership and trying to separate leadership away from the groups they work with,” his father, Mark, said.
Tilsen wrote an NBC News Op-Ed published on July 3 criticizing the president’s visit to the area.
“Make no mistake, this d******e visit was an attack on Indigenous people,” he wrote.
He added that the Black Hills are “the site of death, violence and war.”
“They are home to Mount Rushmore — a monument to white colonizers carved by a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer into land stolen from us by the U.S. government in 1877,” Tilsen wrote.
“Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore, timed to America’s celebration of the Fourth of July, was almost a natural sequel to his rally in Tulsa — originally coinciding with Juneteenth. He is taking his campaign from the site of one of the United States’ most horrific acts of r****m to another place with long histories of oppression and state-sanctioned violence.”
Why don't they just scalp Him and be over it!
Erin Coates
One of the leaders of the protest that shut down the highway to Mount Rushmore last Friday prior to President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July celebration at the monument is facing five criminal charges.
On Monday, Nick Tilsen was charged with second-degree robbery and simple assault for allegedly stealing a shield and assaulting a law enforcement officer, the Rapid City Journal reported.
The Porcupine resident and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is also charged with three misdemeanors for impeding a highway, unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.
If he is convicted, Tilsen faces up to 12 years in prison — 10 years for the robbery charge and two years for the simple assault.
The charges at the Pennington County Courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota, come days after 150 demonstrators used vans and their bodies to shut down the road and a checkpoint to Mount Rushmore to protest the president’s visit to the monument.
“The biggest message that we have been trying to send this entire time is that Mount Rushmore is a symbol of w***e s*******y and racial injustice in this country and that the four faces carved on that mountain are the four faces of colonizers who have committed genocide on Indigenous people,” Tilsen told the Rapid City Journal on July 3.
“To have their faces carved on our sacred lands is why it’s an extreme injustice.”
He said that his group took action “because w***e s*******y will not be dismantled if we merely bow down.”
Tilsen was one of 15 people who were purposely arrested in order to bring attention to their cause.
His lawyer and family say that Tilsen was targeted because “he’s been identified as someone who had a leadership role.”
“There’s a long history of persecuting leadership and trying to separate leadership away from the groups they work with,” his father, Mark, said.
Tilsen wrote an NBC News Op-Ed published on July 3 criticizing the president’s visit to the area.
“Make no mistake, this d******e visit was an attack on Indigenous people,” he wrote.
He added that the Black Hills are “the site of death, violence and war.”
“They are home to Mount Rushmore — a monument to white colonizers carved by a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer into land stolen from us by the U.S. government in 1877,” Tilsen wrote.
“Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore, timed to America’s celebration of the Fourth of July, was almost a natural sequel to his rally in Tulsa — originally coinciding with Juneteenth. He is taking his campaign from the site of one of the United States’ most horrific acts of r****m to another place with long histories of oppression and state-sanctioned violence.”
Why don't they just scalp Him and be over it!
Jul 8, 2020 13:58:49 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Mt. Rushmore Protest Leader Hit with Plethora of C... (show quote)
If the jury has just one Native American on it or really any American with a conscience the jury will be hung or he will be acquitted.
Jul 8, 2020 14:00:13 #
We don't scalp Indians or anyone else. That was a horrific parctice of the past by Indianls and white men both. Don't be an A$$.
Why not add a sculpture of Sitting Bull? Just a thought. As long as it isn't that last POS POTUS or any other man or woman that is not an Indian.
Why not add a sculpture of Sitting Bull? Just a thought. As long as it isn't that last POS POTUS or any other man or woman that is not an Indian.
Jul 8, 2020 14:44:12 #
Kevyn wrote:
If the jury has just one Native American on it or really any American with a conscience the jury will be hung or he will be acquitted.
Yes,if you’re black or a Native American you should not be held responsible for any crime, no matter how great or small...because just because.
Jul 8, 2020 14:46:07 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Mt. Rushmore Protest Leader Hit with Plethora of C... (show quote)
Did Tilden grow up on a reservation and is he pure Native American? Is he a ‘breed’, I believe they were once called...half breed.
Jul 8, 2020 15:42:08 #
DonaldR
Loc: Florida
I could care less. He comitted a crime , so therefore he goes to jail....................
Jul 8, 2020 23:04:19 #
Kevyn wrote:
If the jury has just one Native American on it or really any American with a conscience the jury will be hung or he will be acquitted.
Why Kemosabe! Back to your bathhouse!
Jul 9, 2020 15:31:27 #
Jul 9, 2020 20:31:59 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
Yes,if you’re black or a Native American you should not be held responsible for any crime, no matter how great or small...because just because.
I've said it before , don't argue with her. You can't win trying to talk with a brick!
Jul 9, 2020 20:43:39 #
Kevyn wrote:
If the jury has just one Native American on it or really any American with a conscience the jury will be hung or he will be acquitted.
Jul 9, 2020 21:33:13 #
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