Sarah dreams of beansQuestion for #journalists -- do you avoid naming cops even when their names are available?
I know police departments rarely release names of police, even when they get fired for misconduct. But then sometimes I wonder whether the names were available and just left out of news stories?
Like this is an article about a court finding that RCMP violated people's rights. No RCMP are named, but several protestors and the judge are fully identified.
The baseline level of secrecy around police makes it confusing as a reader, for me at least. Does this mean the court didn't know any names either, or that the finding was about "the RCMP" as a group, or just that the journalist left out the names?
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/19/RCMP-Violated-Charter-Rights-CGL-Arrests/
Ms. Que Banh@beandreams The RCMP COs sent to #Wetsuweten land defenders/water protectors camp were Brewer & Charney. They were both promoted. Charney was the one who slashed the emergency water tanks, during wildfires season. DLT Newman was the CIRG 'Indian Agent' they sent to that camp & to Gitxan territory to help terrorize Indigenous land defenders. I have met all of these RCMP CIRG domestic terrorists on mainland & on the island.
Charney should be in prison - he's the most unhinged & they put him in charge of most of the violent raids.
Charney should be in prison - he's the most unhinged & they put him in charge of most of the violent raids.
@PhoenixSerenity See this is exactly why I wonder! Protestors and activists know the names of lots of cops and can pick them out in photos, but it's so rare to find news that names anyone other than the police media spokesperson
@beandreams Most independent media journalists who spend the most time documenting at various frontlines also know most of the CIRG names. There was still about 80% of CIRG who kept violating court orders to wear identification badges, to stop removing or taping over their identification badges & to provide their identification if asked when they've voluntarily engaged with the public or media. There was no real punishment for hiding their identities then or now.
I'm going to share what almost every indie media person had said to me at many different frontlines where CIRG thugs were sent. Almost all had to 'play nice' on some level to get any access to frontlines to do their documenting work. They targeted 3 POC indie journalists, that I met at camps, for over 8 months because those were the first to capture photos/vids of CIRG breaking laws/police brutality & one was threatened by RCMP after he exposed a lot of names & dug into their dirty work histories.
When MSM show up at frontlines, they're given an 'escorted tour' by CIRG. They don't interact with activists without CIRG babysitter, unlike indie journalists. MSM then publishes sanitized stories that does not reflect the on ground realities very well. MSM has also repeatedly published police PR as facts, when they are far from factual.