CBC: OPP officer posed as journalist during 2007 Mohawk protest

[tuvor]

An OPP officer pretended to be a news reporter at a Mohawk protest that prompted the closure of a major rail line and Highway 401 in eastern Ontario during last year's Aboriginal Day of Action, CBC News has learned.

The officer's tactics have emerged from testimony recently made public when a judge overturned a publication ban on the preliminary hearing for Mohawk protester Shawn Brant.

Const. Steve Martell testified he pretended to be a journalist on June 29, 2007, and got so close to the barricades that he recognized some protesters' faces.

Observers and media organizations, including the CBC, are protesting the tactic of police posing as journalists, saying it makes reporters' jobs more difficult and more dangerous.

It's not the first time that OPP officers have posed as journalists.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/07/24/opp-reporter.html

[TaffyMoon]

1. Yep, the RCMP do whatever the hell they want to do.

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. Under the Liberals in Ontario, it's the same old same-old, it would appear. n/m