[IPSM] Press Release from Tyendinaga

[Mike D]

Apparently the press release was enough to convince the OPP to move the 
training off territory to Napean in the wee hours of this morning...

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Jaggi Singh wrote:

>
> --A message from our friends and allies in Tyendinaga--
>
> Ontario Provincial Police Recruitment Drive
> Thursday, Dec 8th/05
> 10:00AM
> 59 Hall, Tyendinaga, Mohawk Nation Territory
>
> Despite objections from the community, the Ontario Provincial Police plan to 
> hold a recruitment drive on the Tyendinaga Territory tomorrow.
>
> Recent comments made by OPP officers including the idea of baiting Indians 
> with beer,
> that have come to light as a result of the Ipperwash Inquiry into the OPP 
> shooting death of native protester Dudley George, have sparked renewed 
> opposition to OPP presence in First Nations communities.
>
> The number and frequency of blatantly racist comments and acts that can be 
> attributed to OPP members demonstrates deep-rooted racial problems that the 
> Force has yet to address.
>
> As for Tyendinaga, those vocal in their opposition to the OPP have been told 
> to expect a riot squad in response to any attempts to impede their presence 
> in the community.
>
> That the OPP would come here looking for officers is particularly offensive 
> given that our own Tyendinaga Police Force has been chronically under funded 
> and has been requesting a larger complement of officers for years, said Shawn 
> Brant of Tyendinaga.
>
> For more information contact the
> Mohawk Nation Elders Council at: 613.391.4055
>
> More information:
>
> Mar. 22, 2005
> OPP withdraws from Race Relations Awards Ceremony after learning that 
> reporters Peter Edwards and Harold Levy are to be honoured. Edwards and Levy 
> were honoured for outstanding reporting on issues faced by First Nations 
> people and particularly in the wake of the OPP shooting death of Dudley 
> George and Public Inquiry on Ipperwash.
>
> March 12, 2004
> OPP Elite Unit disbanded after allegations officers had defaced a Mohawk 
> Unity flag and a poster of an OKA protester from 1990 found in a home on the 
> Chippewa of the Thames reserve. Eight members of the OPP
> s Central Tactics and Rescue Unit, a paramilitary outfit based in Barrie, 
> were charged with discreditable conduct and deceit.
>
> Nov. 11, 2001
> Elderly Nawash woman dies after OPP fail to initiate any meaningful search.
> On the night of Nov 11/01, Lucy Pedoniquott wandered out of the Wiarton 
> Hospital where she was a patient wearing only bedclothes and paper slippers. 
> The Wiarton OPP searched only the grounds of the hospital before calling off 
> their search. When family initiated a search of their own, they approached 
> the OPP for assistance. They were refused even requests for flashlights.
> At 4PM on November 12th, the OPP
> s Emergency Response Team found Lucy, deceased, in the swamp directly across 
> from the Wiarton Hospital.
>
> July 5, 2001
> 60 OPP officers under investigation for circulation of racist emails, 
> including autopsy photos of an Indian woman with the accompanying caption: 
> Steak knives are good for more than just steak.
>
>
> September 6, 1995
> OPP shooting death of Stoney Point member, Dudley George. OPP also shot a 
> 16-year-old boy in the back that evening and beat a Kettle Point band 
> councillor unconscious. Shortly after Dudley
> s death family members found OPP commemorative mugs & t-shirts reading Team 
> Ipperwash 95
> with an OPP crest with an arrow through it and others with a feather lying 
> horizontal under the OPP crest appearing in some stores in the neighbouring 
> town.
>
> Come out and join the team!
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