The Racist Canadian Mounted Police

[Spartacus2002]

I am posting a link to a youtube video I recorded. It was taken in Alberta, Canada in early May 2010. I am simply posting to get exposure for this one native who I think was discriminated against unjustly. Please watch this video to raise awareness of the plight of aboriginal people's in North America. I am not saying every cop is racist but I think some are. Even if a small minority are, it must be acknowledged, because they hold so much power.

Do not enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_D8QOprdM

Fight the Power!

[jake williams]

Just to add some context, police violence against native people here is routine and vicious. In a lot of ways it's worse than American police violence against, say, black people, because the communities are mostly invisible. In a lot of cases the violence is rural and/or in less populated provinces. But there are also a lot of really desperate urban ghettos - a lot of times of homeless people, so they're not geographical ghettos - and it happens there to. Native people are waaay overrepresented among drug addicts, the mentally ill and the ultra-poor, living in a lot of cases in sub-third world conditions, due to a combination of the legacy of the genocidal "residential school" systems, and subsequent racism, weakened community support structures etc. What little community support structures there might be here for native people are often violently subverted by the Canadian ruling class to ensure that they are simply vehicles for allowing access to Canadian mining companies, which is in the backbone of much of the Canadian ruling class and economy, especially in places like Alberta.

It's a really, really ugly picture and it gets very little international attention, even on the left.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Alberta, the Texas of Canada.

[Foldered]

Alberta, the Texas of Canada.
QFT.

And I don't know if I want to even begin to get into how fucked up the RCMP is. I live in Norther British Columbia and we literally (anyone who does well on the tests to get onto "the force" gets sent to Vancouver and those who didn't come up North) get the rejects of the RCMP.
I've been rejected fundamental rights like giving a badge number when requested, as well as a breathalizer when requested. I got drunk tanked for telling an officer not to be unreasonably rude to my friend so they cuffed me and kept me in a cell with 17 others for 7 hours overnight. All the while I could guarantee I would blow under on a breathalizer.
And that's only one incident.

[jake williams]

Alberta, the Texas of Canada.
It's true, but it's hardly as if this sort of thing only happens in Alberta. I've heard horrific stories from, say, Winnipeg, or Vancouver.

[Die Rote Fahne]

It's true, but it's hardly as if this sort of thing only happens in Alberta. I've heard horrific stories from, say, Winnipeg, or Vancouver.

The west is quite the conservative place.

[Foldered]

It's true, but it's hardly as if this sort of thing only happens in Alberta. I've heard horrific stories from, say, Winnipeg, or Vancouver.
In many ways, not just the RCMP actions, Alberta really is the Texas of Canada.