Water Protectors are confronted by police as they cross Cantapeta Creek to access ancestral burial grounds they believe are being damaged by the Dakota Access Pipeline construction. After heavily armed law enforcement officials pulled a makeshift bridge apart with boats, Water Protectors swam and used their own boats to cross the water. Standing unarmed in the cold water, the protectors were forcibly repelled by the enforcers with tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Standoffs between the Water Protectors and law enforcement over the Dakota Access Pipeline continue in the area that has become ground zero for opposition to a $3.7 billion project that would move domestic crude oil across four states and destroy tribal lands.