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Comment by truth on October 21, 2013 at 1:31pm

The protesters maintain they were unarmed and acting peacefully.

Protesters to appear in court

The final eight individuals who were arrested Thursday are scheduled to appear in court Monday.

One Elsipogtog member who was injured when the protest turned violent also attended the morning news conference. Amy Sock, who described herself as a "peaceful warrior" showed bruises on her arms which she said were inflicted by police during Thursday's altercation.

"People were violated, people were humiliated and people were injured greatly by what has transpired here," Sock told reporters. "It's a great injustice and Canada should not stand for the use of that kind of injustice against peaceful people."

Sock also questioned degree of police surveillance at the protest -- noting that a RCMP surveillance plane has been flying over the protest site for the last few days.

"One of the things that really makes me wonder is how much the federal government tends to cut programs to First Nations, yet we have a surveillance airplane," he said. "Could you imagine how much money that is costing the government just for little old Elsipogtog," he said.

Manitoba Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Derek Napinak said the indigenous protesters are attempting to protect the water not just for themselves, but for future generations.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-b-first-nation-prepared-to-forgive-r...