Cop cars burned, 40 arrested at Canada fracking protest

[cali]

Several police cars were torched and at least 40 people arrested Thursday during an anti-fracking protest near native land in Maritime Canada.

The violence erupted after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police moved in to arrest demonstrators and remove a blockade that members of the Elsipogtog First Nation erected two weeks to stop a shale gas project in Rexton, New Brunswick. The Elsipogtog claim hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking, could irreparably damage their land and the surrounding area.

Witnesses estimated that at least 100 police faced off against several hundred demonstrators, according to news reports.

Protesters were arrested for firearms offenses, threats, intimidation, mischief and not abiding a court injunction forbidding the blockade of an SWN Resources Canada compound. Elsipogtog Chief James Arren Sock was among those arrested, CBC News reported.

The RCMP said some protesters threw Molotov cocktails, and at least five police cruisers were destroyed. A former Elsipogtog chief told the Globe and Mail that "everybody got mad" after the arrests and that Mounties chased the crowd to a line of police cars. She reported seeing six in flames.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/17/canada-new-brunswick-shale-gas-fracking-protest/3003605/

[idwiyo]

1. k&r You go lads!

[cali]

2. more and video

at link. start at 1:15.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/molotov-cocktails-thrown-as-shale-gas-protesters-clash-with-rcmp-in-eastern-n-b-1.1500986

[enough]

3. In this day and age, is it possible that violence simply becomes another pretext for the

Security State to ratchet up its operations? Even violence that has been provoked by police and violence that is totally justified by fairness?