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In August 2020, a young Lakota man accused Bear Runner of coercing him into sex during the years the young man was 17 and 18 years old. Bear Runner denied the charges. The Oglala tribal council put Bear Runner on leave and held an impeachment vote. The vote was 11 in favor of removal, 5 against, and
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who demanded the checkpoints be removed and threatened to sue the Oglala and
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In 2019, the Oglala passed an ordinance to allow same-sex marriage. Bear Runner supported this ordinance; when anti-same-sex-marriage activists tried to put the ordinance up for a tribe-wide vote, Bear Runner cast the deciding "no" vote to preserve the same-sex marriage law.
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