By CKPG Today staff

RCMP Injunction

“There’s blood on the ground”: Wet’suwet’en bring awareness efforts to PG

Feb 9, 2020 | 3:29 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Arrests are mounting at protest camps near construction zones of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory.

RCMP officers arrested 11 people Saturday who allegedly barricaded themselves in a warming centre in a forested area near the worksite.

That same day, Satsi Naziel, a Wet’Suwet’en woman, was in Prince George with others working to raise awareness of the situation being forced upon her people. They stood outside of the Prince George RCMP Detachment at 455 Victoria Street.

She said friends of hers have been unlawfully arrested.

“My friends, they have been arrested. There’s blood on the ground. They were dragged out of broken glass windows. They were unlawfully arrested for breaching the injunction. But they were off of the road, that’s what the injunction states.. that if you were on the road then you’re breaching the injunction, but they weren’t on the road. And even if they were, our people have all said no. That is our consent, our lawful consent.”

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Naziel said family members of hers, some being hereditary chiefs, were also to have a meeting with the RCMP on Saturday

“The RCMP agreed to have the meeting and they blocked them out as soon as they left. They did not have the meeting. They lied to them.”

Support for the Wet’suwet’en has been felt down in the Lower Mainland with protests outside Vancouver City Hall.

Indigenous youth and supporters continue to protest by camping overnight on the front steps of the B.C. legislature in Victoria.