Probably the best account of what took place yesterday at protests against American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) at the group's meeting in Scottsdale came from Censored News on police pepper spraying a Tohono O'odham delegation and the hospitalization of Tohono O'odham veteran David Ortega:

"It was like a cloud of pepper spray," Ortega said Wednesday night recovering in a Scottsdale hospital. "I was carrying the Veterans for Peace flag when another person was hit directly in the face with pepper spray. I rushed to the front to help him, like I always do as a Peacemaker."

Ortega said the pepper spray was fired at them several times. Ortega began experiencing shortness of breath and chest pains and was hospitalized, where he remained Wednesday night. Ortega has been serving as a Peacemaker at Occupy Tucson in recent weeks. He is known nationally as a Peacemaker at Indigenous rights events. He is the

third veteran to be hospitalized after police brutality in recent weeks.

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Indigenous Peoples, including O'odham and Navajos resisting relocation at Big Mountain on the Navajo Nation, are now gathered in Scottsdale will continue their protest and resistance of the corporate influence of ALEC. They announced plans for Thursday.