CW: VIOLENT ARREST OF LAND DEFENDER

https://youtu.be/h4gK5scLMhkOn September 27th, a land defender blocking a fracked gas pipeline was tortured by police. This is the second arrest at the drill pad site access road, where Coastal Gaslink (CGL) plans to drill under Wedzin Kwa (Morice River), the sacred headwaters on Wet’suwet’en yintah. The arrest was brutal. The RCMP officers used “pain compliance” for an hour on the person locked under the bus in a hard lock, insisting the person just let go, which very clearly they were not able to do. The RCMP then had CGL contractors, instead of an extraction team, come in to extract the person. The injunction very clearly states that RCMP are the only ones to enforce the injunction. This is in violation of that. This comes on the heels of the RCMP being at fault for the injunction renewal denial for the Fairy Creek defence based on their tactics against peaceful people. Tomorrow is the “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation” in Canada, and here we clearly see that violence a