Thread by @Lidsville

THREAD. This 17-year-old was removed from a tripod at Ada’itsx/#FairyCreek on Aug 24. An RCMP officer cut the youth’s shirt off, covered his face with a gloved hand & held his head back at an uncomfortable angle, before dropping him down with a rope around his lower ribs. #bcpoli

Images of RCMP violence at #FairyCreek

1. Videos showing mask-ripping before pepper-spraying, in this article: thenarwhal.ca/fairy-creek-bl…

2. An Indigenous woman land defender attacked and dragged down: instagram.com/p/CS01IvNrSQP/

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#bcpoli #oldgrowth #PoliceBrutality

..3. Arrest at River Camp, a young man dragged with rope under his arms by RCMP: instagram.com/p/CSxXyUvhBcl/

4. River Camp Aug. 20 – woman flipped over, four RCMP attack a young black woman: drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold…

There is more, Minister of Silence @mikefarnworthbc...
#bcpoli

@mikefarnworthbc ..And there's more. In this week alone, #BCRCMP have broken one person’s thumb & another's ribs, crushed 3 vehicles, & denied safety protection including helmet, ear & eye protection to an 18-year-old woman locked into an underground trench... #fairycreek

@mikefarnworthbc ... and had an excavator bucket digging right in and above a man who was in a connected trench. The young woman said golf-ball sized rocks and dirt were falling on her face.

6. Car crushing: Sept. 7 at twitter.com/RealJenOsborne

#FairyCreek #PoliceBrutality #bcpoli

@mikefarnworthbc Also: RCMP break car window:

RCMP will not allow woman inside to collect her things:

The elderly woman whose car it was can briefly be seen:

@mikefarnworthbc Why list examples of police brutality at #FairyCreek again?

The Rainforest Flying Squad (RFS) is responding after the national police union released a statement this week about public perception of Fairy Creek protestors...

@mikefarnworthbc Note that this is the same police union that is still defying an order from its own management, made last October, to stop wearing the racist ‘thin blue line’ patches which have been so often seen on officers at #FairyCreek, where BIPOC land defenders are so often targeted...

@mikefarnworthbc The National Police Federation commissioned a survey on public perception of Fairy Creek protestors. The survey showed:
More than 75% of respondents felt protest is an important part of democracy
Almost 50% agreed civil disobedience is necessary to prevent old-growth logging..

@mikefarnworthbc Can we please have a response from silent-as-the-grave Attorney-General @Dave_Eby and Solicitor-General @mikefarnworthbc on these police abuses?

You both wear this, along with your equally silent leader @jjhorgan.
#FairyCreek #bcpoli