RCMP team responsible for policing Wet’suwet’an and Fairy Creek protests should be disbanded, chiefs say.
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has demanded a special RCMP unit responsible for responding to pipeline and forestry protests be disbanded during a federal review launched earlier this year.
For example, those opposing logging by Teal Cedar at the Fairy Creek watershed that included Indigenous protesters have argued the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group went too far enforcing injunctions at logging sites in impeding their movements, arresting them, detaining them and seizing their property.
“And it’s escalating. And there is no accountability on the part of the senior command of the RCMP,” Phillip added. In that investigation, released in 2020, the commission found shortcomings with the RCMP’s crowd-control measures, physical searches and collection of social media information. On Tuesday, the RCMP did not immediately respond to Postmedia questions on whether they were aware of the union’s call to disband the unit or whether it was under consideration.
The renewed enforcement of the B.C. Supreme Court injunction, issued in April 2021, comes less than a week after the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the acquittal of a protester at the same site because police failed to fully read the court order.
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