Yeah MIT Technology Review, I'm sure that's all they "could" be used for and could never be used to kill brown families inthe countrysides of this who live in areas that have always been subjected to violent colonial forces. 🙄
At this point, this type of omission (how this type of tech, specifically, is financially viable to research because if its violent military applications) is an egregious ethical lapse and journalists should be called out for it.
@00Aaron We actually have lived experiences with how #AiDrones weren't used to locate 2 different #MissingPeople, in remote wilderness on South Vancouver Island - 3 years ago. We asked #RCMP to deploy #surveillance drones & they refused to. One of them was found dead, months later.
Prior to that, RCMP used drones, multiple times/daily, to harass us environmental #activists, guarding the blockades at multiple remote logging road resistance camps. #AItech is abused by #colonizer#cops
I have been updated on latest #Israel#genocide attacks & am upset that there's still no sanctions & no arms embargo on Israel. Our governments are complicit in silence of condemnations against Israel's genocide on #Palestinians & some governments are still funding a terrorist, pariah, apartheid state of ongoing evil, racist violence on all Palestinians.
I don't need to see more gore images. As a war survivor, I already know what bombs do to human bodies. Please CW very graphic images of murder
In #BritishColumbia#Canada specifically, our #BCNDP govt with federal govt approvals, created #RCMPCIRG in 2017. It's a #CorporateMercenaries unit, funded by public tax monies. Voluntary unit, no officers are forced to join it, some choose to. CIRG thugs get paid more money & dress in #militarized gear.
Members of the #Heiltsuk Nation in #BellaBella are calling for immediate suspension & removal of an #RCMP officer stationed in the remote coastal community for reportedly making #racist comments on social media.
One screenshot shows the officer posing in front of the Union Jack in #colonial regalia with the comment, “Now, whats to be done about these pesky #natives stirring up trouble in the colonies…?”
She said there is “nothing #Indigenous about the RCMP.”
“They can hire Indigenous people but it doesn’t change their many #HumanRights violations and their continued role in #MMIWG. #RibbonSkirts are #sacred & not to be associated with #genocide,” she said, adding whoever thought of the idea should be fired.
..a bigger issue than whether #Pickton survives is the potential destruction of the #evidence.
“I act as legal counsel for 16 children of nine women who were killed by #RobertPickton,” he said. “It’s in their interest to preserve the evidence seized by the #RCMP on the Pickton farm to allow my clients to prove that Robert Pickton & #DavidPickton caused them to suffer loss.”
The Chinese Family Services of Greater #Montreal & Centre #SinoQuébec de la Rive Sud in the South Shore suburb of #Brossard & the 2 centres' executive director, Xixi Li, are seeking more than $4.9 million in damages, according to #lawsuit filed Weds in Superior Court.
They #murdered this young #bear & got off on killing it 🤬
The #RCMP spokesperson said police were in communication with the #Saskatchewan Conservation Officer Service throughout Thursday, but there were no conservation officers on site when the bear was shot.
People in a local Facebook group expressed #outrage about a photo circulating on social media of two RCMP officers posing with the dead bear in the bed of a pickup truck.
Vancouver Island University, my employer, is now threatening to remove the encampment and have people arrested. I'm absolutely sick.
I had corresponded with our President on May 1. I sent this to our Chancellor, Chair and President today.
Dear Chancellor Sayers, Chair Anderson, and President Saucier,
I am extremely concerned by the escalatory words and actions of VIU today given the encampment’s peaceful and respectful nature and disposition to date. The President has stated to me in her response quoted below on May 1 "that VIU’s approach to the encampment is based on respect and peace for protest and freedom of expression.”
The locking of all campus buildings today and the very clear threat by VIU Security (see attached noticed link) to have peace officers remove tents and equipment under the Trespass Act under threat of arrest is completely contradictory to the President’s statement and is exactly the approach that I flagged to the President as being extremely dangerous and likely to result in harm to the protesters and deep embarrassment to the University itself. There are peaceful ways to do this.
As an institution that is supposed to be fully immersed in the spirit and action of Truth and Reconciliation, I find these statements and actions to be horrendously contradictory, misguided, colonial, and dangerous.
As an individual employee, VIUFA faculty member, and member of this community on Snuneymuxw, Coast Salish and Nuuchanulth lands I am embarrassed, and I beg the University to reconsider and reverse its actions.
In another video from his visit, #Poilievre, who has been beating #Trudeau's #Liberals in polls since last summer, is seen leaving RV w/ a drawing of the black & white #Diagolon flag on door.
According to #RCMP docs tabled @ #EmergenciesAct inquiry last yr, the national police force believes Diagolon =militia-like network whose supporters subscribe 2 "accelerationist" ideology — idea that #CivilWar or collapse of western govs is inevitable & ought 2 b sped up
Via #CTV News
Four men associated with the #Coutts blockade have been charged with allegedly plotting to kill #RCMP police officers, but the #Mounties have not yet publicly commented on any possible connections with the #Diagolon#FarRight#extremist group.
Daegun Chun, accused by #Quebec#RCMP of being the mastermind of a #Canada wide human-smuggling network, is now suing the force and Quebec's attorney general for $100 million after all charges against him were stayed.
After all the fanfare over Chun's arrest, Crown prosecutors quietly stayed all charges against him in 2018.
"When they arrested me they have some big show. And when they finished the case, nobody said anything," Chun told #CBCNews in an interview Tuesday.