Remaining protesters at Regina camp arrested, and teepee will come down
REGINA — Police have arrested protesters who remained at a camp on the lawn outside the Saskatchewan legislature, but said they would allow a sacred fire to burn down before removing a teepee from the site.
Demonstrators at the “Justice for our Stolen Children” camp had been protesting racial injustice and the disproportionate number of Indigenous children apprehended by child-welfare workers.
Police and government officials evicted most of the camp on Friday morning and the remaining people were supposed to have left the site by noon Sunday.
Supt. Darcy Koch says an agreement was made with the campers that the teepee would be taken down, but it wasn’t, so police were there to “assist with that.”