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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/canada-indigenous-land-defenders-police-documents?fbclid=IwAR2PqrLz4xEQNBrxNmvzS2dbFcRiVVgAjgvP-VXUJ_qk9oRH5Ww5AesMVD4Notes from strategy session for raid on Wetsuweten nations ancestral lands show commanders argued for lethal overwatch
Jaskiran Dhillon in Wetsuweten territory and Will Parrish
Fri 20 Dec 2019 05.30 EST
Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
Notes from a strategy session for a militarized raid on ancestral lands of the Wetsuweten nation show that commanders of Canadas national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), argued that lethal overwatch is reqd a term for deploying snipers.
nstructed officers to use as much violence toward the gate as you want ahead of the operation to remove a roadblock which had been erected by Wetsuweten people to control access to their territories and stop construction of the proposed 670km (416-mile) Coastal GasLink pipeline (CGL).
In a separate document, an RCMP officer states that arrests would be necessary for sterilizing the site.
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Exclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show (Original Post)
G_j
Dec 2019
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Utterly unsurprising and definitely not a new development. Colonizers gonna colonize!
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2019
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Beringia
(4,316 posts)2. How could they have actually shot Natives
There would be a big backlash.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,325 posts)3. Utterly unsurprising and definitely not a new development. Colonizers gonna colonize!