Land back movement leader flagged by police as 'violent'

Police flagged a prominent Haudenosaunee leader of the land back movement as “violent,” according to court records from a recent RCMP operation to clear barricades from a road in northern B.C.

Skyler Williams was one of 30 people arrested over two days last week along the Morice River Forest Service Road, which stems from Houston, B.C., about 1,000 kilometres north of Vancouver.

It was the third police operation in as many years against barricades aimed at stopping construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline, which would carry natural gas to a $40 billion export terminal on the coast.  

The RCMP ran Williams’ name through two