PBI-Canada says that the RCMP C-IRG that criminalizes and violates the rights of land defenders should be disbanded

PBI-Canada says that the RCMP C-IRG that criminalizes and violates the rights of land defenders should be disbanded

Video still: Land defender Shaylynn Sampson arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory by RCMP C-IRG officers, November 2021. On February 18, CBC reported that British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen ruled that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) breached the Charter rights of three Indigenous land defenders during that unit’s militarized raid on Wet’suwet’en territory in 2021. Those land…