From [HERE] U.S. Senator Cory Booker is calling on the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the tactics used by police against peaceful water protectors at the protest site in North Dakota.

Senator Booker penned a letter to A.G. Loretta Lynch and her deputy Vanita Gupta, in which he called on the federal government to pay attention and take action.

Booker called the actions by police “inappropriate,” and urged the government to send federal monitors which would allow the protesters to safely demonstrate as is their constitutional right.

Booker also raised questions about how arrested protesters were treated, and questioned whether the police were violating human rights and “unconstitutional conditions of confinement.” [MORE]