RCMP officers cleared in shooting death of Site C protester in Dawson Creek

The scene of the RCMP shooting in Dawson Creek, BC, July 16, 2015.

James McIntyre was killed by RCMP after he confronted them wearing a mask and wielding a knife

By Andrew Kurjata, CBC News, November 16, 2016

The Independent Investigations Office has cleared an RCMP officer of any wrong-doing in a fatal shooting in Dawson Creek last year.

On the evening of July 16, two officers were dispatched to the Stonebridge Hotel where a meeting on the controversial Site C dam project had just taken place.

Unmasked: The face of Anonymous activist shot dead by RCMP

The first glimpse of the face of the masked Anonymous ‘comrade’ shot dead by RCMP is this yearbook photo of James McIntyre from 1979. (Contributed)

James McIntyre a ‘gentle, innocent’ who loved model trains, concerned by Site C

By Betsy Trumpener, CBC News, July 14, 2016

One year after a masked man linked to Anonymous was shot dead by RCMP in northeastern B.C., a relative wants to reveal the true face of James McIntyre.

McIntyre, 48, was killed on a sidewalk by officers responding to a call about a disturbance at an open house for BC Hydro’s controversial Site C dam project in Dawson Creek on July 16, 2015.

Police shot wrong man at Site C dam open house, Peace River farmer says

Image captured from video moments after RCMP shoot a man allegedly holding a knife in Dawson Creek, BC, on July 16, 2015.

by Mark Hume, The Globe and Mail, Sept 23, 2015

Terry Hadland, a Peace River farmer, says he should have got the police bullet that killed a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask outside a Site C open house this summer.

“He created a diversion so I could get away,” Mr. Hadland told The Globe and Mail in an interview. “He stepped up and took that shot for me, that’s for sure.”

RCMP were called to the open house in Dawson Creek on July 16 after getting calls about a man causing a disturbance at the British Columbia Hydro public information session.

Anonymous CSIS document leak probed by RCMP, CSE

Hacker group wants police to investigate fatal RCMP shooting of 1 of its members, James McIntyre

CBC News, July 28, 2015

RCMP and Canada’s electronic spy agency are investigating the leak of a secret government document dealing with CSIS, Canada’s main spy agency, CBC News has confirmed.

Cybercrime investigators with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) are looking into how the online international activist group Anonymous obtained the classified document and then leaked it to the media.

Anonymous and the Dawson Creek shooting

WP Note: Posting these two articles as a follow up to previous posts about the Dawson Creek police shooting of James Daniel McIntyre.  It’s been a confusing story to follow, and now it appears that Anonymous is engaged in an internal struggle over how to respond.  The initial call outs for naming the cop who fired the shots, shutting down police websites etc, have now been replaced by what appears to be a liberal faction of Anonymous attempting to pacify any type of militant response to the shooting.  It also appears that McIntyre was not a part of the Anonymous First Nations, who have stated he was not a member.

B.C. man fatally shot by RCMP identified, Anonymous vows revenge

Graphic: Anonymous First Nations/Native Americans Facebook page.

The Globe and Mail, July 20, 2015

A man whose death in a police shooting in northern British Columbia has prompted threats of retaliation from the online hacktivist group Anonymous has been identified.

The provincial coroners’ service says James Daniel McIntyre, a 48-year-old resident of Dawson Creek, B.C., was killed last Thursday evening. McIntyre was shot after he was confronted by RCMP officers outside an information session related to the Site C hydroelectric dam.

People claiming to be part of Anonymous said over the weekend that the victim was a member of a First Nations cell of Anonymous who was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

Anonymous claims attack on RCMP websites in response to Dawson Creek shooting

CTV News, July 19, 2015

The hacktivist group Anonymous says it took down the RCMP’s national website Sunday as part of a campaign to avenge a fallen “comrade,” who died in a police-involved shooting in Dawson Creek, B.C. this week.

Members of the group have claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks against RCMP websites on Sunday, while also threatening to reveal the identity of the RCMP officer involved in the fatal shooting.