12 arrested in San Francisco in Dakota Access Pipeline protest

San Francisco police arrested a dozen people Monday who were protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Citibank headquarters in the city, officials said. Demonstrators filled the street outside the building at 1 Sansome St. and filed into the lobby just before 9 a.m. carrying signs that read, “Water is Life” and “Citi Don’t Fund Dakota Access.” Twelve protestors were arrested in the lobby on suspicion of trespassing after three orders for dispersal were ignored, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a police spokesman. The protest, organized by Diablo Rising Tide, demanded that Citibank halt financing of the $3.8 billion crude oil pipeline project that is expected to span 1,168 miles. The Standing Rock Sioux and environmental groups say the pipeline project threatens historic and sacred sites and drinking water from the Missouri River.