Old-growth activists worry RCMP will act with impunity

By Rochelle Baker
The National Observer
May 17, 2021
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

Fairy Creek old-growth activists are worried the RCMP will move into protest camps and make arrests with impunity while denying media and other legal observers the ability to scrutinize their enforcement of an injunction. On Monday morning, the RCMP launched the first phase of operations to enforce a court injunction. …But the police are in fact creating exclusion zones… said Kati George-Jim, spokesperson for the Rainforest Flying Squad. The move effectively criminalizes, or limits access, for individuals including media or legal observers who would offer public scrutiny as the injunction is enforced, said George-Jim. …“There’s an exclusion zone because the police are afraid of showing the type of force that they’re going to use in order for industry to go back to work to clearcut old growth,” she said. …”People on the ground and supporters won’t be deterred by the threat of RCMP enforcement,” George-Jim said.

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