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Surrey RCMP raises Pride flag amid din of protesters Tom Zytaruk Black Press Media
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It might not have lived up to its “huge public protest” billing, but the chaos outside the entrance of the Surrey RCMP detachment building leading up to the force flying the rainbow pride flag on Monday morning featured dueling placards, stern cops and verbal abuse aplenty. There were about 30 protesters on either side, and 20 Mounties doing crowd control. An organization vehemently opposed to SOGI 123 in public schools arrived with signs in hand after warning the Surrey RCMP on Friday that it will face a “huge public protest” if it flies a “political” LGBTQ+ rainbow pride flag at its Newton detachment building on Monday morning, which it did. Those in support of the flag raising also came,
with their signs in hand, resulting in shouting matches, name-calling, sloganeering and a hearty rendition of O Canada. Whistles were blown, attempts to speak were met, literally, with “blah, blah, blah,” and people on both sides shouted out about their respective rights while trying to silence the others. It was shrill. Kari Simpson, director of Culture Guard, sent a letter to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, Deputy Commissioner Jennifer Strachan and Assistant Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, officer in charge of the Surrey RCMP, urging “immediate reconsideration” of the planned flag-hoisting. “The pride flag represents a sex activist political movement that is hostile to free speech, to parental rights, and to freedom of Continued on A3
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