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Part 1: Vio­lence At Fairy Creek

Is it pos­si­ble to police the police at Fairy Creek?

There’s a video from the Fairy Creek anti-log­ging demon­stra­tions on Van­cou­ver Island that shows police unleash­ing pep­per spray at close range onto a crowd of activists. At one point, an RCMP offi­cer rips the masks off of two women, shown clear­ly on the tape. Oth­er wit­ness­es from the scene allege even worse — that offi­cers were kick­ing and drag­ging activists, and aim­ing pep­per spray into their mouth, eyes and pri­vate areas.

As reporter Cherise Seucha­ran finds out, the avenues avail­able to the pub­lic to hold RCMP account­able don’t seem to be work­ing when it comes to these reports of esca­lat­ing police vio­lence at Fairy Creek. The courts, the police com­plaints sys­tem, and even the media have not been able to stop RCMP from act­ing in ways that have been con­demned by experts, civ­il rights lawyers and by the RCM­P’s own watchdog.

Part 2: We Get What We Deserve

Trudeau is get­ting upset and it seems to be work­ing for him. And the Eng­lish lead­ers’ debate was wide­ly derid­ed. Was it deserved?

Vice senior edi­tor Man­isha Krish­nan co-hosts.