RCMP officers were confronted by a group of roughly 30 protesters who blasted air horns and kicked and damaged a cruiser near Houston, British Columbia, on July 26.
The officers were conducting a routine patrol on the Morice River Forest Service Road when they stopped a vehicle that had been the subject of multiple complaints from the previous week, according to a police statement issued on July 28.
While the police were interacting with those in the vehicle, one male passenger started to continuously blast an air horn toward the police in an attempt to stop the investigation, the statement said. He was subsequently arrested and charged with mischief and obstruction, but as the man was being placed in the back of a police car, roughly 30 protesters from a nearby camp used their vehicles to block the police car….