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Critics highlight violence, response times in Whiteclay

whiteclay-neLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Advocates who want to end beer sales in Whiteclay are once again urging Nebraska alcohol regulators to intervene, citing numerous reports of violence in the tiny village that borders South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The group on Tuesday presented the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission with a dispatch log from the Sheridan County sheriff’s office. The list from April alone includes reports of fires, assaults with cars and baseball bats, rocks thrown at a car and a van driving out of Whiteclay at 90 mph.

Former Oklahoma alcohol regulator John Maisch says some of the response times show that laws aren’t effectively enforced.

Whiteclay has a dozen full-time residents but sold the equivalent of 3.5 million cans of beer last year. The reservation officially bans alcohol.

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