Ben & Jerry’s Canada is joining a chorus of Indigenous leaders, human rights groups and others calling for the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) to be disbanded.

Source: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/04/21/news/ben-jerrys-wants-contentious-rcmp-unit-abolished

Brian Williams, a head Gitxsan hereditary chief and spokesperson, told at the time the chiefs issued the notice of the ban that the Gitxsan people are afraid of C-IRG.

Source: https://www.100milefreepress.net/news/rcmp-wont-abide-by-gitxsan-chiefs-ban-on-militarized-squadron-on-traditional-territory/

In Fairy Creek, where mass arrests took place over the spring and into the fall of 2021, C-IRG was the subject of 265 complaints.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rcmp-complaints-unit-policing-resource-protests-1.7017512?cmp=rss

Wherever Indigenous Peoples are halting the flow of profits, the C-IRG will show up, lock down the area, exclude journalists and then arrest everyone — far from the prying eyes of the public.

Source: https://therealnews.com/today-is-a-good-day-to-die-brandi-morin-reports-from-inside-a-new-rcmp-raid-at-fairy-creek