RCMP Officers Racist, Dehumanize Indigenous Women

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Justice Michael Tammen

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Judge rules RCMP remarks racist, but B.C. pipeline protesters’ convictions will stand

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Justice Michael Tammen found RCMP officers made “grossly offensive, racist and dehumanizing” remarks about Indigenous women arrested in 2021 .

Tammen said audio recordings captured police laughing and comparing the women protesters to “orcs,” monstrous characters from the movie series “The Lord of the Rings ” He said the racist comments breached the Charter rights of Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chief Sleydo’ Molly Wickham and Shaylynn Sampson .

They applied to have the case stayed alleging “systemic misconduct by the police during the injunction enforcement”.

Police did not know if the protesters were armed nor if they were violent.

Criminal contempt carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Those convicted typically receive short sentences, the judge said.

The case will be back in court on April 3 to fix a date for sentencing.

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