New Year's Eve Conflict on Tsimshian Nation Reserve
December 2005
Northwest British Columbia, Canada
Cops looking for trouble on a Tsimshian Nation reserve found it when an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Sergeant ended up with a black eye and broken glasses after putting a Native woman in a headlock at the Kitsumkalum Community Hall on New Year's Eve.
A young man was un-arrested by his mother and a police car was hit and kicked when it came dangerously close to hitting two young men.
One Tsimshian woman suffered a fractured nose and bruises all over her head at the hands of the RCMP, and another was pepper-sprayed in the eyes, but the cops left the reserve without making any arrests.