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reporter Amy Goodman 'rioting' charges rejected by judge after filming attack on Native American protesters</h1> <div class="intro"> <p>The veteran journalist has said she was simply doing her job</p> </div> <ul class="caption meta inline-pipes-list"> <li class="author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <span itemprop="name"><a href="/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/author/andrew-buncombe" title="Andrew Buncombe" itemprop="sameAs">Andrew Buncombe</a>, <a href="/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/author/feliks-garcia" title="Feliks Garcia" itemprop="sameAs">Feliks Garcia</a></span> New York </li> <li> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/https://twitter.com/AndrewBuncombe">@AndrewBuncombe</a> </li> <li title="16 October 2016 20:52 London"><time data-microtimes="{"published":"1476647520000","display":0,"changed":"1476647520000"}" datetime="20:52, 16 October 2016">Sunday 16 October 2016 20:52 BST</time></li> <li class="comments"> <a href="#commentsDiv" id="comment-count" class="icon-comment"></a> </li> </ul> <div id="gigya-share-btns-1"></div> </header>  <figure itemprop="associatedMedia image" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" class="featured-media medium-width"> <meta itemprop="representativeOfPage" content="true"> <meta itemprop="url" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/16/17/north-dakota-dog1.jpg"> <meta itemprop="width" content="780"> <meta itemprop="height" content="519"> <picture title="north-dakota-dog1.jpg">  <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/16/17/north-dakota-dog1.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 620px) and (max-width: 929px)"/> <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/16/17/north-dakota-dog1.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 930px) and (max-width: 1239px)"/> <source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/16/17/north-dakota-dog1.jpg 1x" media="(min-width: 1240px)"/>  <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_small/public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/16/17/north-dakota-dog1.jpg" alt="north-dakota-dog1.jpg" title="north-dakota-dog1.jpg"/> </picture> <figcaption itemprop="description" class="caption"> Ms Goodman filmed the incident in September <span class="copyright">Democracy Now!</span> </figcaption> </figure> <div class="article-wrapper clearfix"> <div class="main-content-column"> <div class="text-wrapper" itemprop="articleBody"> <p><strong>Update 17 October 2016, 2:55 pm ET</strong>—A North Dakota judge rejected riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman after she filmed an attack on Native American anti-pipeline protesters.</p> <p>Ms Goodman, the host of <em>Democracy Now!</em>, surrendered to authorities on Monday after North Dakota state prosecutor Ladd Erickson last Friday filed new charges against her. </p> <p>"This is a vindication of freedom of speech, of the First Amendment, of the public's right to know," she told reporters, calling the media the "underground railroad of information".</p> <p>Ms Goodman was charged after she filmed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-government-blocks-construction-of-dakota-access-pipeline-bordering-tribal-reservation-a7235101.html">Native American </a>protesters<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-native-americans-attacked-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-a7225571.html"> being attacked</a> on September 3 as they protested against the building of the controversial <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dakota-access-pipeline-explained-latest-judge-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-a7235106.html">North Dakota Access Pipeline</a> near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, close to the town of Cannon Ball.</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">Amy Goodman: “I wasn’t trespassing, I wasn’t engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist” <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/https://t.co/wR62eCnGzY">https://t.co/wR62eCnGzY</a></p> — Democracy Now! (@democracynow) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/787424874964852736">October 15, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161116085149js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p>Her report showed security guards hired by the pipeline company unleashing dogs and using pepper spray. It also featured people with bite injuries and a dog with blood dripping from its mouth and nose. The report went viral.</p> <p>“People have gone through the fence, men, women, and children,” Ms Goodman said in her report. “The bulldozers are still going, and they’re yelling at the men in hard hats. One man in a hard hat threw one of the protesters down.”</p> <p>Prosecutors had initially sought to charge Ms Goodman with trespass, and then announced the more serious charge of taking part in a riot.</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/04/16/dakota-access-pipeline-protest.jpg" width="564" height="423" alt="dakota-access-pipeline-protest.jpg" title="dakota-access-pipeline-protest.jpg"/></div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper"><em>Robyn Beck/Getty</em></div></div> <p>“I came back to North Dakota to fight a trespass charge. They saw that they could never make that charge stick, so now they want to charge me with rioting,” said Ms Goodman. </p> <p>“I wasn’t trespassing, I wasn’t engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist by covering a violent attack on Native American protesters.”</p> <p>Mr Erickson has disputed that Ms Goodman was there as a journalist.</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149im_/https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/09/07/15/dakota-access-march.jpg" width="564" height="423" alt="dakota-access-march.jpg" title="dakota-access-march.jpg"/></div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper"><em>Robyn Beck/Getty</em> ()</div></div> <p>“She’s a protester, basically. Everything she reported on was from the position of justifying the protest actions,” he told the <em>Grand Forks Herald</em>.</p> <p>“Is everybody that's putting out a YouTube video from down there a journalist down there, too?”</p> <p>Ms Goodman’s lawyer, Tom Dickson, said he planed to use the First Amendment to defend her.</p> <figure class="mediaembed"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xml:lang="en">This reporter is being prosecuted for covering the North Dakota oil protests. For reference, I face a mere 30 years. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/https://t.co/GzMbwCVV40">https://t.co/GzMbwCVV40</a></p> — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161116085149/https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/786959641511014400">October 14, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20161116085149js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p>“There’s many justifications and legal justifications for why you're on somebody’s property,” he said. “She wasn’t picnicking or on a summer lark. She was reporting the news to the American people.”</p> <p>Meanwhile, a documentarian arrested while filming at a separate protest, has been charged with three charges that carry a total penalty of 45 years.</p> <p>Actress Shailene Woodley was arrested last week while peacefully protesting at the site of the protest. The 24-year-old actress and activist live-streamed the protest on Facebook.</p> <div class="relatedlinkslist inline-block-related-list inline-block-left"> <h2 class="box-title">Read more</h2> <div class="relatedlinkslist-content" style="min-height: 10px;"> <ul class="related"><li><a data-author="Justin Carissimo..." data-nid="7354901" data-publish_date="10-10-2016" href="/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/shailene-woodley-arrested-while-protesting-dakota-access-pipeline-a7354901.html">Shailene Woodley live-streams her arrest while protesting Dakota Access pipeline</a></li> <li><a data-author="Associated Press..." data-nid="7235106" data-publish_date="09-09-2016" href="/web/20161116085149/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dakota-access-pipeline-explained-latest-judge-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-a7235106.html">Dakota Access Pipeline: Everything you need to know</a></li> <li><a data-author="Andrew Buncombe..." data-nid="7235101" 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