Zeke 🇨🇦This makes my blood boil!
RCMP used third-party spies at #FairyCreek documents show
Police at Fairy Creek. Photo: Jimmy Thomson / Capital Daily
An invoice obtained by Canada's National Observer shows that the officer leading the RCMP C-IRG program signed off on paying roughly $10K to Human-i Intelligence Services. That payment was for an “online intelligence report” on old-growth blockades and surrounding protest activity—presumably including online activity that did not violate the physical injunction zone. Human-i is led by Julie Jones, a retired police officer who has written a book on investigation and appears on the reality TV show Hunted.
The invoice was obtained by Jimmy Thomson, who was managing editor of Capital Daily during the bulk of the Fairy Creek protests. Capital Daily had obtained a copy of the report in question, but was blocked from publishingany of its contents by a mid-2022 BC Supreme Court decision in favour of the RCMP. Those contents remain blocked. But the invoice, obtained via federal freedom-of-information request, publicly confirms that the report exists.
Read the story from Canada's National Observer here.
C-IRG (Community-Industry Response Group), the RCMP force focused on BC-based resource-extraction protests, has since been renamed CRU-BC. It remains under a federal investigation launched in 2023 after years of allegations of rights violations, excessive force, surveillance, and collaboration with industry and private security.
The latest docs resurface what has been a long line of concerns about RCMP conduct in enforcing the injunction against obstructing forestry in the South Island watershed. Media outlets, including Capital Daily, won a court challenge against the extensive “exclusion zones” by which police limited media documentation of the site and arrests.
In Aug. 2021, RCMP officers pepper-sprayed a crowd; reporting by Capital Daily showed that the RCMP then misled the public about why.
Ultimately, many charges against activists were thrown out due to the court finding that RCMP read the injunction to them properly.
#CorporateInterests #Capitalism
RCMP used third-party spies at #FairyCreek documents show
Police at Fairy Creek. Photo: Jimmy Thomson / Capital Daily
An invoice obtained by Canada's National Observer shows that the officer leading the RCMP C-IRG program signed off on paying roughly $10K to Human-i Intelligence Services. That payment was for an “online intelligence report” on old-growth blockades and surrounding protest activity—presumably including online activity that did not violate the physical injunction zone. Human-i is led by Julie Jones, a retired police officer who has written a book on investigation and appears on the reality TV show Hunted.
The invoice was obtained by Jimmy Thomson, who was managing editor of Capital Daily during the bulk of the Fairy Creek protests. Capital Daily had obtained a copy of the report in question, but was blocked from publishingany of its contents by a mid-2022 BC Supreme Court decision in favour of the RCMP. Those contents remain blocked. But the invoice, obtained via federal freedom-of-information request, publicly confirms that the report exists.
Read the story from Canada's National Observer here.
C-IRG (Community-Industry Response Group), the RCMP force focused on BC-based resource-extraction protests, has since been renamed CRU-BC. It remains under a federal investigation launched in 2023 after years of allegations of rights violations, excessive force, surveillance, and collaboration with industry and private security.
The latest docs resurface what has been a long line of concerns about RCMP conduct in enforcing the injunction against obstructing forestry in the South Island watershed. Media outlets, including Capital Daily, won a court challenge against the extensive “exclusion zones” by which police limited media documentation of the site and arrests.
In Aug. 2021, RCMP officers pepper-sprayed a crowd; reporting by Capital Daily showed that the RCMP then misled the public about why.
Ultimately, many charges against activists were thrown out due to the court finding that RCMP read the injunction to them properly.
#CorporateInterests #Capitalism