Olympic Police Harass More Victoria Activists

Zoe Blunt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:03:56 +0000

RCMP try to question local residents, get a lecture on rights instead

On Thursday, August 20, Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit (VISU) officers knocked on the doors of at least three Victoria homes and tried to question social justice advocates about their plans for the Olympics. Instead, they got politely schooled in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Comrade Black is a volunteer organizer for the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair. The VISU officers came to the 29-year-old’s home in Fairfield on Thursday, but no one would talk to them. Since the officers had no warrant, no due process, no probable cause, and nothing to investigate, they got no information from Black or his housemates.

“When they came to my door, one of my roommates answered and gave them no information, he would not even tell them if I was home. Even though they asked for me by name, they didn’t know who they were looking for, and at one point seemed to possibly wonder if he was me. I never ended up talking with them, myself. They gave him a card asking me to call them,” Black said.

“What’s funny is I personally have had little to do with the local organizing against the Olympics,” Black went on. “They must have either picked people out of a hat, not caring who they got as the effect would be the same, or they chose the most visible anarchists in town to target for harassment.”

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Olympic Police Harass More Victoria Activists