Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Green Party who on Wednesday had arrest warrants issued against them for participating in a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline earlier this week, say they are proud of their actions and will now “engage the legal process with dignity and integrity.”

The pair joined the ongoing protest against the controversial pipeline, known by the acronym DAPL, in North Dakota on Tuesday where their campaign admits they both spray-painted construction equipment alongside tribal activists and environmental allies.

While Stein painted “I approve this message” on one bulldozer, Baraka wrote the phrase “We need decolonization.”

For weeks, the multi-site demonstrations against DAPL have grown and intensified as regional tribes also wage a legal battle to have approval of the project cancelled.

On Wednesday, following through on an earlier threat, Morton County sheriff’s department charged both Stein and Baraka with misdemeanor criminal trespass and criminal mischief. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, Rob Keller, told reporters  the warrant was officially filed with the county and if local authorities encountered Stein in the area, “they would arrest her.”

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