Every Mohawk a Suspect: Why Drug Raids in Kanehsatake Feel Like Police Invasions
Submitted on June 29, 2011
Consider how police conduct drug raids elsewhere. They obtain warrants naming specific individuals. They isolate the address specified in the warrant. They execute the warrant with a minimum of inconvenience to the neighbourhood...A raid at Kanehsatake is different. The whole community...has a police roadblock. All Mohawks are considered suspect and potentially dangerous. This explains why the police presence is massive...The disruption to the community is huge.
