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submitted 3 weeks ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Brian Smallshaw, a web developer and historian from Salt Spring Island, said he suspected the force was breaking the law and breaching rights when arresting activists during protests against old-growth logging on Vancouver Island.

But now that the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission has upheld his allegations, he knows it.

In a scathing report completed last month, the commission found the Mounties wrongfully arrested Smallshaw while he was hiking three years ago when he wouldn't submit to a search he considered unconstitutional.

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[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Indeed, the RCMP C-IRG has repeatedly acted in a way that is contrary to the jurisprudence and to the rule of law," reads the report.

The same unit faces abuse of process proceedings launched by First Nations activists who allege the unit violated their Charter rights during the Coastal GasLink pipeline dispute in northern B.C.

The evidence there includes recordings of Mounties mocking activists arrested at Wet'suwet'en-led blockades as "orcs" and "ogre" and laughing while discussing beating a man and twisting his genitals during one arrest.

ACAB and fuck the RCMP.

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