11 Nebraska troopers returning home from pipeline protest scene 'as scheduled'

LINCOLN — Eleven Nebraska state troopers sent to North Dakota to assist with law enforcement at the scene of a massive protest over the Dakota Access oil pipeline are coming home.

They will return by Thanksgiving “as scheduled,” according to a press release Tuesday from the Nebraska State Patrol.

The announcement comes one day after anti-pipeline protesters delivered online petitions signed by an estimated 29,000 people to Gov. Pete Ricketts objecting to the deployment.

The troopers were in the second group sent for two-week deployments in response to the State of North Dakota’s formal request for help at the site of ongoing protests just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, south of Bismarck.

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