Members of the Unist’ot’en camp say three pickup trucks aggressively blocked in one of their camp vehicles last week.
“Two [pickup trucks] turned around and high beamed from the front, and one [pickup truck] came in from behind and boxed it [a camp vehicle] in,” says a post describing the incident on the Unist’ot’en camp’s Facebook page.
Camp members say the incident occurred on Morice River Road near seven kilometres on the night of Sunday Jan. 31, 2016. They say the intruders were “aggressive” and that they suspect the intruders let the camp vehicle proceed once they realized the occupants were “white.”
“The aggressors never revealed themselves and left their high beams on the camp vehicle as it [the camp vehicle] left,” says the Facebook post.
Camp members say they suspect they might be being targeted by local residents or “a rogue security branch of law enforcement.”
“We cannot be intimidated and will keep protecting our unceded lands,” says the Facebook post.
The RCMP did not respond to Lakes District News by press time.
The Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en has set up a protective camp south of Houston and has been physically impeding pipeline proponents such as Coastal GasLink and Chevron from entering their territory.
