Commanders granted permission to “use as much violence toward the
gate as you want” as officers went onto ancestral Wet’suwet’en lands to
dismantle the barricades.
gate as you want” as officers went onto ancestral Wet’suwet’en lands to
dismantle the barricades.
These same RCMP commanders told officers to arrest even the
grandparents and children and argued that snipers use lethal force.
There was an idea to have social services present to apprehend the
children.
While this information is shocking, it is hardly surprising. Violence
and incarceration of Indigenous land and water protectors in defense of
corporate interest is the de facto response to land defenders asserting
indigenous sovereignty.