Almost 260 pages of emails detailing complaints made to the watchdog agency that investigates Mounties show many people were angry with the police response to trucker protests that blocked Alberta's main border crossing for more than two weeks in early 2022.
"The RCMP have become nothing more than political hit men 'just doing their job' and will watch democracy crumble before them in the name of 'public health,"' said a complaint to the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP in February 2022.
The commission received 131 complaints about the protests from January to the end of February 2022, it said in an email. Only seven the of the complaints were processed, two of which were later terminated. It was concluded one didn't involve the Mounties and the other was "third party," meaning the incident did not involve the person making the complaint.
Many complaints were about a YouTube video near the Coutts highway protest in which a person alleges RCMP caused damage to excavators. "Is the state engaging in sabotage the kind of country you want for your fellow citizens? For your children and grandchildren?" a complaint said."If you can't find a tow truck company, buy three or four yourselves and pay them off with the money from the seized rigs," a complaint from Feb. 8, 2022 said.
One complaint, which provided a false phone number and post office box, was about an RCMP officer not wearing a mask and coming close to a person. It was later learned the Mountie in question didn't work at the area at the time.
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