Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 20, 2013

Mi'kmaq Warrior risks losing leg after being shot by RCMP rubber bullet

Mi'kmaq Warrior risks losing leg after being shot by RCMP rubber slug in Thursday's cop attack.

Internal bleeding went untended for two days due to shock.

Halifax Media Co-op


Elsipogtog, New Brunswick – It has taken three days, but sadly there is now the potential of a very serious injury arising from last Thursday's early morning RCMP attack on the anti-shale gas encampment that occurred on a piece of Crown land adjacent to highway 134. Tyson Peters, a member of the Mi'kmaq Warriors Society, today appeared at a community meeting in Elsipogtog using two friends for support. His left leg was heavily bandaged. He tells the Halifax Media Co-op that after being shot in the leg by a 'rubber bullet' shotgun blast, fired by an RCMP officer at close range, there is extensive internal bleeding in his leg. Doctors have advised him that they will know better tomorrow whether the leg will require amputation.
READ article at Halifax Media Co-op: http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/mikmaq-warrior-risks-losing-leg-after-being-shot-r/19398

1 comment:

kellie mcdonell said...

The RCMP and harper have shamed Canada once again!!!

I am 100% behind this very small band!!

Time is long past due to honour them.