How a Cree Trapper Found Canada's Most Wanted (with the RCMP)
December 20, 2019 2:37 PM Subscribe
The Globe and Mail story of the search for two fugitives in remote Manitoba. The manhunt was long and hadn't found many clues, and the remote area of Manitoba on the Fox Lake Cree Nation had many places to hide. The discovery of the suspects took a lot of sleuthing and local hunting knowledge.
Again, the continued media obsession with killers on a rampage, long after their story should be as dead as they are. Their security cam pictures still top dead centre of articles relating the slightest of fresh revelations surrounding the minutia of their crimes. Unintentionally glorifying their nihilist escapades in a society drooling at the thought of its own destruction.
posted by CynicalKnight at 4:20 PM on December 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by CynicalKnight at 4:20 PM on December 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
I am glad to see the First Nations folks living in the area getting recognition for their special expertise in navigating the very dense bush up there. These are very specific skills and not many people have them.
As the news of this unfolded, I thought of the local Fox Lake First Nation folks and what a double whammy it was for them first of all to feel unsafe because of the fugitives, but also because now their community was swarming with RCMP, who have (historically and currently) caused a lot of trauma in Indigenous communities. I was glad to see the article address this at the end:
As the news of this unfolded, I thought of the local Fox Lake First Nation folks and what a double whammy it was for them first of all to feel unsafe because of the fugitives, but also because now their community was swarming with RCMP, who have (historically and currently) caused a lot of trauma in Indigenous communities. I was glad to see the article address this at the end:
During the two-week search, many residents in Bird and Gillam had been too scared to stray far from their homes or let their children play alone outside. Some struggled to sleep at night and kept hunting rifles next to their beds in case the fugitives made a sudden bolt for their isolated communities.posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 6:39 PM on December 20, 2019 [11 favorites]
For some Fox Lake band members, the flood of outsiders – including the police and media – triggered painful memories of historical traumas.
The discovery of the murder suspects’ bodies brought great relief to the residents of Fox Lake and Gillam, but a pall lingered, even over the Beardys.
The time had come to wipe away the negative forces that had descended on their land and to reclaim authorship of the story from the two B.C. fugitives who drove to a dead-end road and then seemingly vanished into the wilderness.
Until a raven appeared.
their nihilist escapades
Nihilist?
Actually, the two individuals in question had an ethos: they were rather enamoured of the tenets of national socialism.
because now their community was swarming with RCMP, who have (historically and currently) caused a lot of trauma in Indigenous communities.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to understate this.
Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show:
Notes from a strategy session for a militarized raid on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en nation show that commanders of Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), argued that “lethal overwatch is req’d” – a term for deploying snipers.
The RCMP commanders also instructed officers to “use as much violence toward the gate as you want” ahead of the operation to remove a roadblock which had been erected by Wet’suwet’en people to control access to their territories and stop construction of the proposed 670km (416-mile) Coastal GasLink pipeline (CGL).
In a separate document, an RCMP officer states that arrests would be necessary for “sterilizing the site”.
"Sterilizing the site" would suggest RCMP members are also enamoured of the tenets of a certain ethos.
See also: Dudley George, and Kent Monkman's The Scream.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:36 AM on December 21, 2019 [7 favorites]
Nihilist?
Actually, the two individuals in question had an ethos: they were rather enamoured of the tenets of national socialism.
because now their community was swarming with RCMP, who have (historically and currently) caused a lot of trauma in Indigenous communities.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to understate this.
Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show:
Notes from a strategy session for a militarized raid on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en nation show that commanders of Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), argued that “lethal overwatch is req’d” – a term for deploying snipers.
The RCMP commanders also instructed officers to “use as much violence toward the gate as you want” ahead of the operation to remove a roadblock which had been erected by Wet’suwet’en people to control access to their territories and stop construction of the proposed 670km (416-mile) Coastal GasLink pipeline (CGL).
In a separate document, an RCMP officer states that arrests would be necessary for “sterilizing the site”.
"Sterilizing the site" would suggest RCMP members are also enamoured of the tenets of a certain ethos.
See also: Dudley George, and Kent Monkman's The Scream.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:36 AM on December 21, 2019 [7 favorites]
All things considered, that "with the RCMP" should really be "despite the RCMP"
posted by scruss at 1:12 PM on December 22, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by scruss at 1:12 PM on December 22, 2019 [1 favorite]
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