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A national coalition of impacted communities and organizations dedicated to build support, provide information, and mobilize to abolish RCMP's C-IRG unit
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Breaking: Ronald Barnes (Alaska) calls out Canada for Wet’suwet’en raid today at UN human rights council session in Geneva
#AbolishCIRG
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This is why we must
#AbolishCIRG
. Arrests at Gidimt'en camp in Wet'suwet'en territory today. FOURTEEN vehicles deployed to arrest 5 people. This force is under review for systemic abuses. They must be suspended immediately and budget cut.
BREAKING: Raid happening now at
@Gidimten
camp, 5 arrests over a sham of a search warrant. This is sovereign territory and
@RCMP
has no business invading native land and stealing our people from their homelands.
cc
@yintahaccess
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More audio: "That big fucking ogre looking dude, he’s actually like autistic, they beat the shit out of him and he started crying.. Someone grabbed his balls and twisted, 'you done now, you done resisting'?” Reference to Logan Staats. Supt Elliot: “Unprofessional, unacceptable.”
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BREAKING: Impacted communities & < 50 organizations release a collective response to the massive number of incidents of violence, assault, unlawful conduct, and racism of the C-IRG police unit. It is a call for the immediate abolition of this force.
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For a century and a half, the RCMP have terrorized Indigenous peoples, queers, Muslims, women, journalists, and others. Read the history that won't appear in the Canadian Heritage minutes here:
For a century and a half, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has served and protected Canadians. As we mark their 150th anniversary, we thank all RCMP employees, past and present, for their dedication. Read Prime Minister Trudeau’s statement:
#RCMP150
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On May 23, the RCMP will be celebrating their 150th anniversary. We are also planning our own commemorations of their heritage. Here is a taste of the work we are doing.
#RCMP150TimesUp
🧵
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Well, the good news is that we successfully abolished C-IRG.
The bad news is that we hear they have rebranded as CRU: “Critical Response Unit.”
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Living tweeting today from the trial of land defenders Sleydo’ (Wet’suwet’en), Shaylynn Sampson (Gitxsan), + Corey Jocko (Mohawk). They are charged w/ criminal contempt for opposition to the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory without consent.
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All eyes on Fairy Creek. We’ve demanded the immediate suspension of C-IRG while they undergo systemic review by Civilian Complaints Review Commission. Any action they take against Indigenous land defenders & supporters is done with full govt knowledge + consent of C-IRG violence.
This is Uncle Ricco, a Nehiyawk land defender at Fairy Creek. She tells the RCMP CIRG unit who may soon move in to arrest her & others “Savage Patch will not back down. I will not back down. As a Cree Warrior, as a Nehiyawk Warrior. Do what you want. You've taken my family, You
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WHOAH. Supt Elliot agrees these are Charter violations. Cross-examination complete.
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Defense counsel: Are you aware that Mohawk world for warrior has a different connotation than English? That it means, "he carries the burden of peace.” Are you familiar with that? "I am not."
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This is why we are doing this work. This is not a spoof account. We are activists, lawyers, land defenders, and organizations building a movement to radically challenge the power of the RCMP
#RCMP150
#RCMP150TimesUp
RCMP have killed again. Today.
Manitoba RCMP Shoot and Kill 18-Year-Old in Portage la Prairie (May 24, 2023)
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On March 8, CRCC, the oversight body of the RCMP, announced a Systemic Review into the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG). This review fails to exercise the full investigative powers of the CRCC. We demand the force is suspended during this review. Read letter here.
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The RCMP's complaints commission is currently investigating C-IRG. That's why our coalition called for an immediate suspension while the systemic review is underway: so that no more unlawful conduct, abuse of power, and violations of Indigenous rights can persist.
#AbolishCIRG
On March 8, CRCC, the oversight body of the RCMP, announced a Systemic Review into the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG). This review fails to exercise the full investigative powers of the CRCC. We demand the force is suspended during this review. Read letter here.
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More comments made about "orcs" in reference to Indigenous women. Supt Elliot denied he failed to give proper instruction to officers on dealing with Indigenous peoples in the context of this operation.
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Crown is still seeking adjournment and Judge says, hell no cry baby.
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Defense responds: We provided a direct quote from the audio + provided the entirety of audio to Crown in July + Amber Bracken affidavit refers to audio. Transcript of audio was provided to Crown on Jan. 3. Sleydo had a mic on that kept recording following arrest.
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Court is in session. A draft plan for enforcement, screenshots of a video, and photographs were not disclosed to the defense counsel. The matter that concluded yesterday's testimony is concluded.
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This comes after and earlier call last month to BAN the C-IRG from Gitxsan territory, which was denied. It is call for the cessation of hostile acts on the land, limiting the number of RCMP on their territory to 9 authorized officers. Stay tuned for the updates on this meeting.
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Defense counsel: Are you aware that the Mohawk flag, referred to as radical "symbology" was created by a Louis Hall in 1974? Are you aware that this flag is intended to symbolize Indigenous unity + Haudenosaunee oral constitution, sometimes described as Great Law of Peace? "No."
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The National RCMP Research Council is proud to present our member
@Pam_Palmater
’s article on the RCMP and MMIWG. How can a force responsible for so much gender-based violence and indifference be tasked to lead any efforts for justice?
#RCMP150
#RCMP150TimesUp
My latest article for National RCMP Research Council exposes truth behind
#RCMP150
The
@rcmpgrcpolice
mythology around national icon does't measure up to its brutal truth.
@rcmpoffyintah
@AbolishCirg
#RCMP
#policeracism
#mmiwg
#policebrutality
#genocide
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If you were following the abuse of process hearings against land defenders in January, read this analysis of what we learned in court about the cozy and dangerous relationship between CGL lawyers and the RCMP.
New piece: Last month we heard RCMP testimony that the C-IRG unit is interpreting injunctions to bend to the will of industry in startling new ways. Industry lawyers are calling more shots than we realized + RCMP are calling them more often than we knew.
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If this doctrine is the basis of Canada's claims to hold underlying title to all land in Canada, where does that leave police operations currently evicting Indigenous title holders off their land? 🤔
BREAKING: The Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally rejected the “Doctrine of Discovery,” theories backed by 15th-century papal decrees that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today.
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If you're not familiar with the CIRG, it's a unit of the RCMP that exists only in BC. They operate using a playbook made by top US military strategists...which explains their tactics. Check out this educational zine published on
@WBWCanada
website:
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We will be listening in on court today to hear this decision. Dinï ze’ Dsta’hyl is the highest ranking person to be charged for violating the CGL injunction. At his hearing, he argued that it was the injunction that was a violation of Wet’suwet’en law.
Tomorrow at 9:30am pst Dinï ze’ Dsta’hyl will hear the verdict for the criminal contempt charges he is facing for upholding Wet’suwet’en ‘anuk niwh ‘iten (law).
#WetsuwetenLandWetsuwetenLaw
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Live tweeting Day 4 of abuse of process trial for land defenders arrested on Wet'suwet'en territory for violating the Coastal GasLink injunction. Testimony from GIS Ballinger (will confirm). His role is repository for collating information on arrests + formatting as affidavits.
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Members of the
@AbolishCirg
coalition,
@UBCIC
have demanded CIRG be disbanded. This week, they published an open letter. GC Philip: "This is not a new issue. It was triggered by the paramilitary tactics by this group."
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"It's Fasken, who's askin'?"
Looks like we got some raw footage of RCMP C-IRG Gold Commander getting direction from his bosses over at CGL's law firm.
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A line of questioning now about arrest of 3 journalists during the Nov 2021 operation. Defense counsel draws attention to a deck: "Michael Toledano is NOT media" - NOT is underlined. Are you aware that MT has been making documentary for CBC’s passionate eye for several years?
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Live tweeting again today - beginning around 10am PST - highlighting court coverage of abuse of process applications for land defenders found guilty of violating an injunction obtained by Coastal GasLink pipeline on Wet'suwet'en lands. In the meantime, some background and context
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Whatever it’s called, we'll continue to fight against the RCMP unit that violently harms land defenders, is subject to multiple lawsuits, and should not exist in the first place. Instead of militarized cops, let’s see real climate policy and recognition of Indigenous rights.
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Keep your 👀 open for a special announcement that day.
Algonquin territory/Ottawa! Come out and support the call for the abolition of the controversial RCMP "community-industry response group" (C-IRG) at a rally outside the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday April 19 at 12 noon ET. More at
#AbolishCIRG
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Another trial we are following today involves Secwepemc land defenders accused of violating the TMX injunction + damaging corporate property, e.g. surveillance equipment, monitoring their lives at Blue River camp.
@Weasel_Woman
argues she cannot be trespassing on her unceded land
Breaking exclusive footage in Aj+ doc shows
#TransMountain
attacking & assaulting Indigenous female land defender Mayuk Manuel
@Weasel_Woman
daughter of acclaimed author Arthur Manuel & granddaughter of Dr Grand Chief George Manuel, as she continues the legacy to fight for land.
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A sentencing hearing is being scheduled today. We will keep you posted. NOT ONE MINUTE should be served.
Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs are rallying outside Smithers courthouse, calling on government to negotiate the long-awaited Delgamuukw agreement and disband CIRG.
Inside, crown says it will ask for up to 3 months jail time for Chief Dsta’hyl, Adam Gagnon.
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After two weeks of court ended last week, it is pretty clear that
@Dave_Eby
@mikefarnworthbc
@nikisharma2
and
@bcndp
need to
#DROPTHECHARGES
#abolishcirg
Amnesty International remains in steadfast solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation as their members face violence, harassment, surveillance & intimidation for resisting the construction of a pipeline through their ancestral, unceded land
#WetsuwetenStrong
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Court is back and we are listening to audio of arrests. Officers referring to 2 people with facepaint on as "orcs." Two Indigenous women were in custody at the time with red handprints on their faces.
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Looks like the RCMP is finally coming clean about their 150 years policing Canada:
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The creation of C-IRG has a disturbingly similar history to the original creation of the RCMP... A paramilitary police force designed to brutally challenge any Indigenous opposition to Sir John A MacDonald’s national dream.
- Grand Chief Philip Stewart,
@UBCIC
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The RCMP have not officially released news of this name change, but they recently testified to it in a Fairy Creek trial. We await the official announcement, but we will not take our eyes off the RCMP no matter what they call themselves.
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New racial profiling mandate just dropped.
C-IRG - secretly rebranded as CRU - has expanded powers now to police pro-Palestinian demonstrations in BC.
Guess racism, misogyny, and violence has its awards. More money, more power.
Guess who's been showing up to rallies for Gaza under its new and expanded mandate...
The RCMP Sent Its Pipeline Protest Unit to Pro-Palestinian Rallies
@TheTyee
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Day 5 of the hearing on RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group (CIRG) Abuse of Process in the November 2021 raids against land defenders blocking the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
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"The abuse of process application...alleges RCMP used excessive force...and that they were treated unfairly while in custody. The filing asks if the judge doesn't stay their charges, then it would be appropriate to reduce their sentences based on their treatment by police."
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Logan Staats posted: "Even in the eye of the storm, there is great peace. We must all bury our weapons underneath the pines. We must stand our ground in peace, love, and truth. Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I want to change myself.”
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We must raise our collective voice to
#AbolishCIRG
. The evidence currently presented at the abuse of process hearing is only a FRACTION of the racist, unlawful conduct of this RCMP unit that recently had a boost in funding from BC.
Yet more evidence of absolutely shameful conduct from the
@rcmpgrcpolice
on Wet’suwet’en territory. This police force will always be barrier to any kind of reconciliation here, and we can do better without it.
#AbolishCIRG
#DefundThePolice
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Supt Elliot testifies Emergency Response Teams usually gas people out of homes. But it would look bad “optically” so he “endangered” his officers by instructing them to axe their way into the house at gunpoint.
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Don't forget to register for tomorrow's webinar!
TOMORROW! On Tuesday March 5 at 5:30 pm PT/8:30 pm ET join the 268+ people already registered for a panel discussion on Gitxsan and Gitanyow Resistance to Colonial Mega Projects:
#AbolishCIRG
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And under the watch of
@Dave_Eby
and
@mikefarnworthbc
who are trying to stay silent. But we know this is happening on their watch and with their decisions on where money flows. We know where these two stand when it comes to
#Indigenous
#Rights
,
#reconcilation
, and FPIC
Infuriating and heartbreaking.
Everyone needs to read this
@dogwoodbc
piece about how human rights in this country, in this very province, are being violated to protect expansion of the
#fossilfuel
industry.
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But you had already decided by the time you did the risk assessment that the Mohawks on the territory were a “radical Mohawk element.” Is this correct? “Yes.”
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Superintendent Elliot calls the disparaging comments "unacceptable." He understands the handprints are symbols of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement.
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Defense counsel is now asking the Silver Commander whether he understands how Instagram posting works. We are back to the misinterpretation of a post that led CIRG to escalate the raid against land defenders.
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We are back. The court audio cut in when testimony was in progress. But I believe Operations Officer Fishback is now testifying. He was Acting Operations Officer in 2019, at the time of the raids. He was also the Emergency Response Team coordinator, since 2017, for E Division.
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Another audio clip is played by the defense. A reference is made to the number of people arrested on Nov 19. We hear: "Here's Johnny." This is a reference to the horror movie The Shining. Police used an axe to break down 2 houses at Coyote Camp. We hear laughter.
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As
@MarkRuffalo
understands, this trial is not to find the bad apples. It is to show a pattern of pervasive and systemic abuse embodied in the force. It is mostly volunteer. These are mercenaries who picked to go clear the land for industry and remove everyone in its path.
What is clear from these trials is the
@rcmpgrcpolice
and their “Community-Industry” mercenaries are out of control, hateful rogue cops. They are the norm and not the exception. There is a pattern of racism and violence shot up and down every action of the Royal Canadian Mounted
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A thorough review of the trial so far by
@dogwoodbc
. It contains full quotes of RCMP misogny, racism + ableism revealed in court, logics of police violence explained + the problem at the heart of the trial: how did the injunction trump Indigenous title?
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Discussion: 40mil projectile, “sponge gun” used to shoot out a camera outside the cabin. An officer chants: “Gas them!” Another: "I'm surprised they didn't. That's what they also do, gas, gas, gas. Someone responds, "A lot less invasive than [inaudible] the fuck out of them."
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I wish you all could hear Defense Counsel Frances Mahon cross-examine the RCMP. Her questions are surgical and she slices into their testimony with evidence that is systematically destroying the Crown's case.
During cross-examination defence lawyer Frances Mohan played audio recordings for RCMP Supt. James Elliott in which C-IRG officers refer to land defenders as “orcs” because of the red
#MMIWG
handprints on their faces. CBC reports on this at:
#AbolishCIRG
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Justice Tammen begins by re-reading the CGL injunction. He recites the charges of "criminal intent" by the hereditary chief. Multiple counts of rendering machinery inoperable and blockading flow of vehicles into work camps. Drilling was set to begin under sacred Wedzin Kwa river.
We will be listening in on court today to hear this decision. Dinï ze’ Dsta’hyl is the highest ranking person to be charged for violating the CGL injunction. At his hearing, he argued that it was the injunction that was a violation of Wet’suwet’en law.
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When CIRG was created in 2017, with the full intent of unrestricted violence, with the full support of both the provincial and federal governments, it was to remove the Indigenous and human rights of all peoples of this so-called democratic country - Wet’suwet’en Chief Na’Moks
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What do you know about the RCMP's role in the war on terror? At the start of this post-911 war, the RCMP was linked to the heinous US extraordinary rendition program by virtue of its sharing of false information to US authorities that resulted in Maher Arar’s rendition to Syria.
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It continues with a statement for peace, for loving one's enemy. Defense counsel suggests to CIRG Commander had not given him the actual quote, only a clipped post. CIRG testified that this quote escalated the risk assessment bc assumed it was about hiding weapons in the woods.
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What do you know about RCMP and IRS? When guardians refused or resisted attendance policies, the RCMP were used to coerce attendance at church-run and government-funded schools; they criminalized parents for loitering if they visited and returned runaways to brutal conditions.
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Join over 5,000 people signing the Lead Now petition: .
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Act now to support this call. Send a message to BC Public Safety Minister Mike Farnsworth, telling him that the use of police to enforce corporate injunctions demonstrates a failure of the province to deal with the climate emergency and Indigenous rights.
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What do you know about the RCMP and Inuit relocation programs? The RCMP supported and directed government operations to coerce the Inuit to move to the high arctic, where hunting and fishing were scarce and many starved, in order to defend Canadian Arctic sovereignty.
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There seems to be confusion around whether or not a Feeney Warrant was needed. If anyone else is observing and has expertise on warrants, hmu. Court is about to resume for the day.
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What do you know about CIRG? A unit of RCMP in BC has acted so unlawfully that a judge denied a forestry company from enforcing a court order against protestors citing “substantial infringement of civil liberties” conducted by the Community-Industry Response Group.
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The feds do not look good here. ATIPs show Canada shirked its responsibilities in these conflicts: “We do not see the issue as being related to rights and title — it’s more of an environmental protest in concert with an internal governance issue in Wet’suwet’en territory.”
"These are not the usual police operations. C-IRG polices conflicts... related to industrial resource extraction projects" i.e. "primarily the enforcement of corporate injunctions against Indigenous people and environmental activists at extractive sites."
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He also holds another role, since April 2021. Critical Incident Commander is an accreditation in RCMP that oversees "critical incidents." Every Emergency Response Team has a CIC. Lots of interesting mapping of this security architecture in this case.
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The NWMP/RCMP started as a colonial experiment in social control...The C-IRG continues the legacy of the RCMP by creating more harm and fostering extractivism. Time to stop this colonial experiment and choose community empowerment and real safety.
- Kevin Walby
@CAIJ_UW
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Here's a question we should all be asking: why is the RCMP seeking legal advice from industry about how to interpret a court-ordered injunction?
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By the way, we are 10 months into a Systemic Review of the CIRG by RCMP's
@CRCC_CCETP
with no released deadline for their report. Meanwhile Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs, the
@UBCIC
and others, like our coalition, continue to call for the unit's abolition.
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Justice Tammen rules Dsta'hyl is guilty of criminal contempt. Referring to the Wet'suwet'en law of trespass vs the injunction: "The two legal orders cannot comfortably co-exist in the circumstances."
We will be listening in on court today to hear this decision. Dinï ze’ Dsta’hyl is the highest ranking person to be charged for violating the CGL injunction. At his hearing, he argued that it was the injunction that was a violation of Wet’suwet’en law.
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This image of the moment was captured by photographer Amber Bracken inside the cabin showing RCMP Corporal Sebastien Pilote pointing what is likely a C8A3 Carbine Automatic Rifle which is capable of firing 65 bullets per minute.
"Once the door was breached, Pilote stood in the doorway, pointing a rifle with a flashlight in the 'ready position'..." More from
@TheTyee
on the court hearing on potential Charter rights violations by the RCMP C-IRG against land defenders:
#AbolishCIRG
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What do you know about the RCMP and Queer community? The RCMP played a crucial role in doing surveillance work on “suspected homosexuals” and in purging thousands of “confirmed homosexuals” from the public service, with a focus on Ottawa.
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What do you know about the internal misogyny within the RCMP? 5 class action lawsuits have been launched against the RCMP by former officers alleging sexual harassment, abuse, assault, and gender or sexual orientation-based harassment while working or volunteering for the force.
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Bronze Commander Fishback confirms indirectly that his ERT group was tasked with activities beyond enforcing the injunction including "safety sweeps" of surrounding areas - focusing on ensuring the area was safe for industry.
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Officer Balldinger also made a call to Fasken to confirm that a warrant was not needed to enter the structures where land defenders were staying to assert their jurisdiction against the pipeline. Industry lawyers confirmed the injunction could authorize police enforcement.
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ERT discussed w/ command about whether a warrant was needed to enter cabins; it was not b/c the authority was contained in injunction. ERT tasked w/ "breaching the structures." ERT would "hand over" arrested to Tactical + CIRG asap. ERT could enter any way, at their discretion.
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Defense establishes the charter principles, RCMP policy, and legal directives laid out for the Nov 18 and 19 operations, including for the CN Rail blockades in New Hazelton on Gitskan territory. Court will return after a short break to hear what actually transpired on the ground.
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The violence, misogyny, and racism that came out in the hearing last week is only good for two things: exonerating land defenders + raising awareness about the need to
#AbolishCIRG
.
via
@insideclimate
Trial of Land Defenders Fighting the Coastal GasLink Pipeline is Put on Hold as Canadian Police Come Under Scrutiny for Excessive Force
@AbolishCirg
#AbolishCIRG
#Wetsuweten
@CoastalGasLink
#CoastalGasLink
@RcmpAbolish
@rcmpoffyintah
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Crown counsel: What was the role of ERT on Nov 17 expected to be?
"A contingency of violence beyond capability of police, ERT would be deployed. We were deployed to do safety sweeps near the roads. And tasked with 'overwatch' - last line of defense if needed."
Overwatch = 🔫
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The CIC authorizes ERT. ERT were deployed into the area on Nov 16 "but not yet specifically tasked with taskings." In general terms, ERT deployments fall under the "command triangle" with CIC in charge of overall operation. Supt also Bronze CIC in CIRG.
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"The orcs and ogres are on the run" - Gold Commander
Raw footage of CIRG consulting with CGL's lawyers about how to enforce the injunction against land defenders.
"It's Fasken, who's askin'?"
Looks like we got some raw footage of RCMP C-IRG Gold Commander getting direction from his bosses over at CGL's law firm.
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Send a message to the interim RCMP Commissioner, too, demanding the immediate suspension of the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) unit of ‘E’ Division:
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Listening to a member of the Emergency Response Team testify and it is chilling see Gidimt’en’s yintah through his eyes: a world where assaulters support breachers to flank their enemy, provide overwatch, and ultimately apprehend targets.
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No More Silence has worked with families and community members of missing and murdered loved ones for almost two decades. A consistent theme in our work continues to be mitigating the damage done by police forces. 1/4
- Audrey Huntley, No More Silence
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If ice cream doesn’t like you, maybe time to pack it in.
Today we signed an Open Letter to demand an end to the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), a unit of the RCMP that has hundreds of complaints of assault and misconduct filed against them.
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Send a message - instantly - to Federal Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino here - - the protection of Indigenous rights fall under federal jurisdiction - it's time to step up.
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Court is adjourned. With some updates in the coming months, more will continue on the week of June 17th
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Corporate & colonial greed is what drove the C-IRG to unceded territories; lands that the provincial and federal government do not have jurisdiction to. It’s deja-vu. CIRG must be disbanded now!
- Grand Chief Philip Stewart,
@UBCIC
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So great to see all the actions organized by
@leadnowca
@decolonialsol
and so many others to oppose RBC's bankrolling of colonialism!
PEOPLE POWER! Yesterday, hundreds of people took action from coast to coast at 40+
@RBC
branches on
#FossilFoolsDay
. The message was loud and clear: stop funding climate destruction and colonial violence.
Threading some 🔥 photos from actions held in communities across Canada.👇
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