A video posted online purportedly shows one of the clashes with environmental activists that a company has claimed forced it to bring heavily armed private security guards to the location of a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin. In the clip, which was posted on Facebook Wednesday, masked protesters can be seen running through the woods to a drilling site, where they curse at workers and climb on their equipment. At one point in the footage, which seems to have been filmed by one of the activists, a worker and a protestor struggle over what appears to be the worker’s camera.“You have to get out! You’re here illegally! You have to fucking get out of here and you can’t drill anymore!” one of the activists shouts at the workers.
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