RCMP C-IRG snipers repeatedly deployed against unarmed Wet’suwet’en land and environmental defenders - Peace Brigades International-Canada

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RCMP C-IRG snipers repeatedly deployed against unarmed Wet’suwet’en land and environmental defenders - Peace Brigades International-Canada

Photo from Gidimt’en Checkpoint Facebook page. Reporting this week on an abuse of process application ruling, The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter Amanda Follett Hosgood wrote: “The court heard that RCMP officers had set up snipers in the area prior to the arrest…” We take this fuller look at the issue of police snipers being deployed against Indigenous land defenders, including the killing of Dudley George in 1995. November 2021 Follett Hosgood ha…