At 9:30pm on Tuesday June 1st, more than two dozen RCMP officers from at least two detachments, along with bylaw officers and Maple Ridge's contracted private security guards encircled a small protest encampment set up in Maple Ridge's city hall park and, without a word of warning, tore apart…
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