The Guardian: Two women in Canada have been arrested and charged after social media posts discussing killing indigenous people and holding a “shoot a [sic] Indian day”.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Tuesday that a 32-year-old from Manitoba and a 25-year-old from Saskatchewan were charged with uttering threats and public incitement of hatred.
The social media posts, which targeted residents of First Nations communities, were made after a wave of vandalism hit people’s vehicles and property in Flin Flon, a city of some 5,000 people in north-west Manitoba.Some turned to a public page on Facebook to vent about the damage, police said in a statement. The posts quickly escalated into what police described as “hateful and threatening” language.While police did not name the two women charged, their description matched those behind an exchange that was widely shared on social media earlier this week.