“Outrageous”: Mi’kmaw fishers allege unlawful arrest in Nova Scotia

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Migma voices drowned out Justin Trudeau’s Halifax Area Housing announcement angered by allegations of racism obviously this this story is extremely extremely troubling which is why uh there is a need for a full investigation on this earlier migma supporters pushed into a Fisheries office as tensions around the lucrative Maritime Elver

Fishery shut down by Ottawa this year ramp up blae siloy and Kevin hartling now at the center of it all after they say they were arrested by fishery officers for exercising what they believe to be their treaty right to fish baby yels last week on Nova scotia’s South Shore instead of

Being taken to the nearby Fisheries office they say the officers took their boots and cell phones and Stranded them at this gas station in the middle of the night when they left us with no shoes like I just kind kind of like I kind of devastated like I told him like man this

Is like outrageous you’re leaving me with no shoes he said you know the consequences hours from home the pairs say they walked throughout the night looking for a hotel that was actually 66 kilm away friends eventually found them at daylight at this convenience store well it reminds me of the U Saskatchewan

Cases where uh the police were dropping the indigenous people off late at night and they were dying they were freezing to death the federal fisheries Minister acknowledges an incident quote involving the arrest in a release of two individuals and says DFO has launched an investigation but after the man posted

Photos of their torn socks and blistered feet online there’s anger and migma Chiefs are calling for accountability the first thing we were looking for us is uh for those individuals are responsible to immediately be fired Chiefs wrote The Province also want an emergency meeting with Fisheries officials to talk about what they call

An example of systemic racism IDI pachic Global News bartmouth Nova Scotia

An investigation is underway after two Mi’kmaw fishermen in Nova Scotia alleged they were mistreated by federal fisheries officers, who arrested the pair.

They were apprehended for fishing for baby eels, a fishery that is closed this season, while the men say they were exercising their treaty right to fish.

Heidi Petracek reports on the accusations, how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reacting and what Mi’kmaw chiefs are demanding.

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23 COMMENTS

  1. I’m not a big fan of all this garbage on both sides of the aboriginal issue but taking someone’s shoes away at any time is ridiculous but at this time of year it is inhumane. Those officers should be fired immediately if this is true.

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  3. you cant keep letting them hunt as there population increases i have seen that right abused , one family 6 moose, now if the cops were jerks then they should charged , but conservation areas are there for a reason

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