The documents show that ahead of the raid, the RCMP deployed an array of surveillance, including heavily armed police patrols, a jet boat, helicopter, drone technology, heat-sensing cameras, and close monitoring of key land defenders' movements and social media postings.

Police established a "media exclusion zone," blocking reporters from accessing the area. They took care to hide their carbine rifles on the approach to the roadblock because the "optics" of the weapons were "not good," according to one of the documents.

The documents also show close collaboration between the RCMP and TC Energy: police officers attended company planning sessions and daily "tailgate" meetings, and were privy to CGL's legal strategy.

The RCMP were prepared to arrest children and grandparents: "No exception, everyone will be arrested in the injunction area," a document reads. Another makes reference to possible child apprehension by social services—a troubling disclosure given the violent history of residential schooling in Canada and the disproportionate number of Indigenous children currently in the child welfare system.

Originally Posted By Striker:
Haven't seen anything about it in the news or social media..and the RCMP brass have a very long and well documented habit of looking the other way when First Nations warriors break the law..

Originally Posted By TnMike:

Ain't that the truth. I saw some crap crossing at Cornwall last year that just made me shake my head.

Originally Posted By griffin86:
I think they were just planning for contingencies. If they didn't kill activists carrying AK47s during the Oka Crisis, they won't be shooting unarmed protesters now.

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