On February 13th, 2022, in Coutts Alberta, RCMP had been working to restore movement on roads blocked by tractors belonging to those protesting vaccine mandates and restrictions.

On this particular day, the RCMP decided it was necessary to break the law to accomplish their task.

Three excavator owners wished to show their support to the convoy, not by participating but by positioning their equipment alongside the road with flags suspended from each. They attained approval from a neighbouring property owner with a key vantage point.

While hanging their flags, the RCMP attended the property en masse to order the equipment be moved from their location or risk having them ‘disabled’ due to the ‘threat they represented’. The equipment owners agreed and soon all three had been repositioned 500 metres back, on the same property.

Despite this, the next morning all three had been damaged, well beyond what would have been required to simply disable them. After several conversations, recorded by the owners, the RCMP admitted to being responsible for the damages, stating the machines presented a clear danger.

It’s important to understand what transpired – without a crime occurring, in fact with only the mere THOUGHT that a crime MIGHT occur, the RCMP pre-emptively entered private property without warrant or approval, vandalized expensive equipment under the cover of darkness and left, without a word to the property or equipment owners.

According to Chad Williamson of Williamson Law, the firm representing the group, the sabotage was politically motivated and represents obvious Charter infringements, stating that the excavators posed no immediate threat to person or property, “This goes beyond mere disabling or seizing, this is a destruction of private property by a government body without lawful reason to do so.”

This was a clear and blatant illegal act perpetrated by these officers.

In response, a lawsuit has now been filed against the RCMP by these three owners for combined damages and costs totaling $150,000.

We fully denounce the actions taken by the RCMP, the very people who should be upholding our laws and our Charter.

To read the article written by Sydney Fizzard of Rebel News, click here