Since boycotting the Big Banks funding the pipeline has met with success — Norway's largest bank, DNB, recently pulled its assets from the project — the caravan's first demonstration was to be held outside a branch of another Dakota Access financier, Wells Fargo.

However, as Unicorn Riot filmed, dozens of militarized, riot-gear-clad law enforcement officers from multiple departments had already taken up positions surrounding the bank branch when the water protectors arrived.