{"id":58529,"date":"2021-08-30T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=58529"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T20:56:52","slug":"public-demonstration-at-courtney-rcmp-detachment-about-police-actions-at-fairy-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/public-demonstration-at-courtney-rcmp-detachment-about-police-actions-at-fairy-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Public demonstration at Courtney RCMP detachment about police actions at Fairy Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week, \u201cStand Down\u201d protests were organized in front of RCMP detachments across the province to protest police tactics at the Fairy Creek anti-old-growth-logging blockades on Vancouver Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gjLRuuHnUJ8?t=37\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Video footage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shared by protesters taken Aug. 21 shows RCMP officers pepper spraying a large group of protesters at Fairy Creek. The RCMP reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bc-cb.rcmp-grc.gc.ca\/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=2087&amp;languageId=1&amp;contentId=70832\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">approximately 30<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> arrests at the location.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58532\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Margaret-and-fam-protest.jpeg\" data-dt-img-description=\"The RCMP protests were a multi-generational event. Photo courtesy of Margaret Verschuur\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58532\" class=\"wp-image-58532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Margaret-and-fam-protest.jpeg\" alt=\"A family is holding RCMP protest signs by the side of the road on a sunny day\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Margaret-and-fam-protest.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Margaret-and-fam-protest-500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Margaret-and-fam-protest-287x215.jpeg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The RCMP protests were a multi-generational event. Photo courtesy of Margaret Verschuur<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CKTZ News interviewed Margaret Verschuur, a resident of both Cortes and Quadra Islands, who attended the Aug. 23 \u201cRCMP Stand Down\u201d demonstration in Courtney and has been to the Fairy Creek blockades several times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"What started as concern about the ancient forests has now become a concern about democracy, which is really scary,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verschuur reported there were about 60 people gathered in protest in front of the Comox Valley RCMP detachment in Courtenay, including Rainbow Eyes, a well-known Indigenous leader from the Fairy Creek blockades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verschuur spoke about multiple medical doctors attending at a similar protest in Victoria because they have seen first-hand the injuries forest defenders have sustained during arrests at Fairy Creek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comox Valley detachment\u2019s Media Relations Officer Monika Terragni had agreed to email regarding the Aug. 23 protests, but CKTZ News did not receive any comments by the deadline for this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tune into CKTZ's interview with Margaret Verschuur below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, \u201cStand Down\u201d protests were organized in front of RCMP detachments across the province to protest police tactics at the Fairy Creek anti-old-growth-logging blockades on Vancouver Island.\u00a0 Video footage shared by protesters taken Aug. 21 shows RCMP officers pepper spraying a large group of protesters at Fairy Creek. The RCMP reported approximately 30 arrests&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":58536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,3265],"tags":[9106,563,8799],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58529"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=58529"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=58529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}