UPDATES ON VIOLENCE AT STONEY POINT
As reported to hands from Barb B.:
Initial Info (as of 6 am Thurs.Sept 07/95)
- Anthony Dudley George has been shot and killed.
- Nicholas 'Ugga' George, 16 years old, shot and wounded.
- Another individual has been severely beaten by OPP
- last night roughly at about 12:00 (midnight).
- Stoney Point people at no time had any weapons whatsoever
- the police just moved in and shot and killed Dudley George and wounded
Nicholas George and severely beaten another.
- whole area totally sealed off.
Update Info (as of 5 pm Thurs.Sept 07/95)
- last night resisters were sitting around fire when police entered area
dressed in camouflage (riot gear) and confronted resisters
- a fight ensued with OPP officers beating a resister
- as other resisters approached to stop the beating, OPP officers began
shooting the unarmed resisters
- result of OPP violence (above): 1 dead, 1 wounded, 1 severely beaten,
2 arrested (Carolyn Bressett and Pierre George)
- Stoney Point people are going to maintain jurisdiction over their land
"NO MATTER WHAT"
- march of 150 supporters broke through OPP barricades to join resisters
at camp
- presently a standoff between OPP and resisters (joined by recent
supporters who broke through barricades) at Stoney Point beach
- we're under siege
- our history is repeating itself over and over again
- ask and send as many supporters, native and non-native to help us
- we need witnesses, support, human rights observers
- BRING VIDEO CAMERAS to document and curb the violence
- supporters can call: (519) 786-2125
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Please help get this message out to the media and supporters.
For more info... email: hands@web.apc.org or tel: (519) 767-0313
Peace, aloz
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