Old-growth protesters allege RCMP’s Fairy Creek actions defy recent court order

By Rochelle Baker & Patricia Land
The National Observer
August 12, 2021
Category: Forestry

Police are continuing to employ questionable tactics as they enforce an injunction at the Fairy Creek old-growth blockades on Vancouver Island despite a recent court decision declaring their actions unlawful, activists allege. Not only are the RCMP ignoring the B.C. Supreme Court ruling that deemed broad exclusion zones, checkpoints, searches and media restrictions illegal, but police are doubling down and escalating their use, said Kathleen Code, a spokesperson for the Rainforest Flying Squad. “The court made its decision around the illegality of RCMP exclusion zones … but we see no effect whatsoever on the ground,” said Code. …Yet despite Thompson’s ruling, a photojournalist was arrested at the Fairy Creek headquarters camp while on assignment Tuesday. …It appears that police are still looking to curtail media covering events at the blockades, Colin Smith said.

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