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6 Feb 2020

Author:
Sarah Berman & Jesse Winter, VICE

RCMP are raiding Wet’suwet’en land defender camps

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[A] dozen RCMP vehicles, including prisoner vans and RCMP-branded Suburbans, roared out of the pre-dawn darkness and stopped just short of the watch camp where Wet’suwet’en land defenders have been resisting a court-ordered evacuation of their lands to make way for a pipeline... One read a statement aloud saying that police were enforcing an injunction order and that anyone present had 10 minutes to gather their things and leave, or be arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. At least six land defenders have so far been arrested, several being dragged away in handcuffs... One RCMP officer repeatedly threatened a VICE reporter and another journalist with arrest, ordering them out of the camp while they conducted arrests... On Wednesday, the RCMP held a press conference confirming it would be enforcing a B.C. Supreme Court order to clear a logging road outside of Smithers, B.C., to make way for construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

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