British Columbia

The court heard audio recordings taken after the RCMP's raid on Coyote Camp and Gidimt’en Checkpoint on November 18-19, 2021. The recordings caught officers referencing "gassing” people in the tiny home, referring to a man as an "ogre" and laughing about how multiple officers "beat the shit out of him", and referring to Indigenous women as "orcs" for wearing red paint symbolizing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Another audio recording revealed an officer saying “Here’s Johnny,” comparing the scene from The Shining to the officers’ use of axes to break into the cabins. RCMP Superintendent Elliott agreed that the recordings were not in accordance with his mission to comply with the Charter and called the officers’ behaviour “unprofessional and unacceptable.”