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The B.C. RCMP has issued a lengthy statement taking exception to a controversial December 20 article in the Guardian.

Among other things, the Mounties have accused the U.K.-based media outlet of damaging relationships with its stakeholders—including hereditary chiefs—that have been years in the making.

This came after the Guardian posted an article with the following headline: “Exclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show”.

This was in connection with heavily armed Mounties taking down an Indigenous blockade on January 7 in the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en people. The RCMP described the article as “inflammatory”.

Fourteen people were arrested at the time for violating a B.C. Supreme Court injunction obtained by a subsidiary of TC Energy. It’s building a pipeline to bring fracked natural gas to the LNG Canada plant near Kitimat.

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If you don’t want something to show up in the news, then maybe don’t do it.

It’s not even the first time they’ve done it.

https://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/rcmp-crackdown-elsipogtog-anti-fracking-blockade-spurs-over-50-protests-sup

https://thenarwhal.ca/mikmaqblockade-rcmp-respond-first-nations-fracking-protest-arrests-snipers/