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As peaceful protests over the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline again turn violent, one journalist near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian reservation in North Dakota captured shocking video showing herself being shot by police out of nowhere as she conducted an interview
Erin Schrode, an activist and journalist, was doing an interview at the edge of the Cantapeta Creek when police shot her with a bullet. In her video of the incident, Schrode can be heard screaming, "Ow!" before panicking and crumbling to the ground.
In a Facebook post, Schrode writes for Fusion in the past, said she was badly shaken after "militarized police" shot her at "point-blank range"
"I couldn't fathom that I'd just been hit. Why would they target me? Why would they shoot anyone?" she said. "There was absolutely nothing violent, aggressive, provocative going on at the protests yesterday."
When she realized there was video on her phone of the run-in, she said went "into hysterics."
"I can't believe what is happening here in Standing Rock," Schrode said, her voice wavering. "It's a scene like I've never seen anywhere else in the world, and it's right here at home."
Schrode described thinking: "Who am I to say I'm in pain? Who am I to have a pity party around me when literally people are up there putting their lives on the line every day, when the land is being desecrated?"
