As NDN Collective seeks probe of RCPD Noem gaslights for reservation audits

Since the South Dakota Republican Party thrives on violence and hypocrisy reigns supreme at the highest levels of power in South Dakota residents endure Policing for Profit and civil forfeiture so the current Earth hating governor can crow about her leadership and self-reliance while moral hazards pay the bills.

NDN Collective knows the Rapid City Police Department is comprised of a bunch of racists so calls to the US Department of Justice are getting louder.

“We’re talking about ending racism in Rapid City,” Holly Cook Macarro, head of Government Affairs for NDN Collective, told the crowd gathered at a hotel not far from the White House. “We’re encouraging a DOJ investigation of the racism in the Rapid City Police Department,” said Cook Macarro, a citizen of the Red Lake Nation. And DOJ already has experience in Rapid City, a community nestled in the sacred Black Hills that were promised to the Sioux Nation by that broken treaty. Cook Macarro, a longtime Indian law and policy lobbyist in Washington, said NDN Collective also met with members of Congress during their time in D.C. this week, sharing how the organization has “rematriated” $100 million in grants across the country. [‘Racism is expensive:' Native activists still fighting for justice on treaty territory]

In August US Attorney General Merrick Garland met with representatives of the nine tribal nations in South Dakota and with the state's junior US Senator but its racist governor was not invited. Proving irony is dead Kristi Noem’s political campaign called for an audit of tribal communities from a state that’s an ethics black hole and where Republicans routinely raid the Future Fund while the governor peddles favors from South Dakota's executive branch like it was a $60 bible.

Noem’s recommendations include audits of federal funds provided to South Dakota tribes; creating a “Special Assistant United States Attorney initiative” within the state to boost federal prosecutions on tribal lands; more federal support to assist tribes in investigating crime; and encouraging tribes to establish law enforcement agreements with the state. [Days after Justice Department boosts resources for tribe, Noem calls for more]

Learn more at South Dakota Searchlight.

Leonard is 80 years old and has been in prison for nearly 50 years as a result of an unjust and unfair trial in the 1970s.

Executive clemency is likely Leonard's LAST opportunity to be released, it is time to #FREELEONARDPELTIER

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