{"id":53954,"date":"2020-06-30T10:57:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53954"},"modified":"2020-06-30T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:57:56","slug":"security-camera-captures-heavily-armed-rcmp-at-wetsuweten-cultural-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53954","title":{"rendered":"Security Camera Captures Heavily Armed RCMP at Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Cultural Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Security Camera Captures Heavily Armed RCMP at Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Cultural Site<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

RCMP have no reason to carry assault weapons or even be at the newly constructed smokehouse, say spokespersons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RCMP officers and Coastal GasLink pipeline workers captured on trail camera despite lack of environmental assessment approvals. Photo submitted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation are challenging RCMP actions on their territory after a security camera captured images of police with assault rifles checking an empty building located deep in the woods.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building, a smokehouse that will soon be used to process fish, was built this spring at the request of Gidimt\u2019en Clan Hereditary Chief Woos. It is on the Morice River about one kilometre from the Morice West Forest Service Road, not far from the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en Healing Centre where conflict between Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en members and pipeline builders began a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long dispute came to a head in January 2019 when heavily armed RCMP officers enforced an injunction by removing barricades and arresting 14 people<\/a> opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory. Earlier this year large RCMP operations<\/a> again removed barricades and arrested dozens at several camps over five days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trail camera installed to monitor the Gidimt\u2019en smokehouse captured two RCMP visits this month, including images of three officers, one carrying what appears to be a semi-automatic Colt C8 assault rifle, surrounding the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Cpl. Madonna Saunderson, the officers are members of a Quick Response Team assigned to the Community-Industry Safety Office, a remote detachment established to police the Morice West Forest Service Road following the arrests in January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe photos being circulated online relate to recent patrols and the check of a newly constructed building which is on the pipeline\u2019s right of way and is therefore in breach of the BC Supreme Court injunction order,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe understand that CGL has posted a notice on the building advising of this breach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Security Camera Captures Heavily Armed RCMP at Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Cultural Site RCMP have no reason to carry assault weapons or even be at the newly constructed smokehouse, say spokespersons. Members of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation are challenging RCMP actions on their territory after a security camera captured images of police with assault rifles checking an empty building […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28788,103,3542,746,5499,8528],"class_list":["post-53954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-amanda-follett-hosgood","tag-canada","tag-rcmp","tag-spying","tag-the-tyee","tag-wetsuweten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53955,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53954\/revisions\/53955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}