Last Updated: Thursday, March 4, 2021 10:36
A protest by Indigenous youth that temporarily shut down a major intersection in Vancouver and prevented access to the city’s port ended peacefully Wednesday night after four of the demonstrators–all of them adults–were arrested.
The protest began 24 hours earlier at the intersection of Hastings and Clark Streets when about 20 people, who said they were members of the Braided Warriors, gathered to protest a 90-day jail sentence handed to an elder, Stacy Gallagher.
Protesters sit in the intersection of Clark and Hastings Streets on Wednesday (Chantelle Bellrichard)
After Gallagher was sentenced Tuesday, about 20 people gathered at the intersection.
Indigenous youth group Braided Warriors is hoping the United Nations will step in and help them seek justice after they claim they were “brutalized” by Vancouver Police Department officers who broke up their “peaceful protest.”