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<\/a>Woman flees the trench she occupied, as heavy machinery is brought against her<\/a>. Screenshot taken from a video on Rainforest Flying Squad Facebook page<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cHelp us save the last of the old growth and I plead you to bring your friends, all of your friends, to show them how important and tender this ecosystem is,\u201d he said in the video.<\/p>\n There were 49 arrests Wednesday, which brings the total over the last ten days to 167.<\/p>\n \u201cThroughout the day, officers once again removed individuals in locking or tripod-like devices, and deep trenches dug in the roads. Police were also met with a large group of protesters along the road. Despite requests to disperse and leave the area, individuals remained and were subsequently arrested,\" The RCMP stated in a press release Aug. 18.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n A\u00a0 protester named Luke Wallace posted allegations<\/span><\/a> of the physical violence police meted out to some of the women. Two Indigenous women, one of them a member of the Pacheedaht Nation, needed medical attention after being set upon by groups of RCMP officers. Another woman was not able to walk the night after she was forcibly extracted from a \"dragon,\" Wallace said in the video.<\/p>\n \u201cRCMP have no clue what they are doing extracting people. They are using excavators beside people\u2019s heads, to try and dig up ditches,\u201d said Wallace.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have gotten to the point that we are having internal conversations about \u2018what ifs\u2019 and I never want to ask what if this happens. It is frightening to talk about the potential of human death and extreme injury in these circumstances, when we are exerting our peaceful right to protest and are here standing up for the land in a completely non-violent fashion,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Wallace claims people have fallen as much as 25 ft when police chainsawed the tripods they are in.<\/p>\n Another protester took to Facebook to talk about their experience at Fairy Creek.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter what these guys do up here: cut down our sits; or take all our s___, raid our camps and ruin everything that we\u2019ve tried to build over the past year - and it takes them such a short time to destroy and ruin everything \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019ll just build it again,\u201d posted Shawna Knight on Facebook<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is absolutely disgusting and mortifying to think this is what we\u2019ve come to as a species,\" she added. \"We do not even care about all the other things that we are affecting on the planet, all the other species and our future as we know it. We just want the money, now. Well there are some of us that don\u2019t feel that way and you are never going to be able to stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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