It said the five people were placed in a prisoner transport van while a K9 team entered the house to search for any remaining people, and that all were eventually released.
“The last person held was told he would be charged with six counts of mischief under $5,000 and taken away in the prisoner transport van,” the blog added.
The blog post noted that items taken during the raid included laptop computers, USBs and cellphones, some banners, a video camera and a black hoodie.
He said officers are not required to unnecessarily put themselves at risk and that entering a home is always a high-risk situation.
In March, mural artist Milan Basic said that while he is no fan of pipelines, he’s also opposed to the activist who three times spray-painted his Commercial Drive mural with anti-pipeline slogans.
“I believe in the message, but he’s ruining his message,” the 43-year-old said at the time as he surveyed the words “Oil Spill” and the anarchist “A” symbol painted in black over his high-profile blue mural at the corner of Fifth Avenue.
“He’s alienating the neighbourhood,” said Basic of the graffiti activist.
Posted on June 6, 2014, in Counter-Insurgency, Oil & Gas, State Security Forces and tagged anti-graffiti police raid, Anti-Graffiti Unit, anti-pipeline graffiti, no pipelines, police raid, repression. Bookmark the permalink.	1 Comment.
You should know that you have some support out there in the blogosphere…..if you go to http://www.thevancouverexpress.blogspot.ca there are 2 stories about the vancouver police just posted there. One’s about your situation and the other one is entirely to retaliate against the VPD….