Ahead of ostrich cull, RCMP warn B.C. farm protesters of possible arrest [Video]

RCMP liaison officers have visited a British Columbia ostrich farm to prepare for potential arrests at the property where protesters are trying to prevent a cull of about 400 birds ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Multiple livestreams broadcasting from the Universal Ostrich Farm, in Edgewood, B.C., show three officers in police liaison jackets and another in uniform at the farm.

They tell protesters and the farm’s owners they want whatever happens at the farm to be lawful and peaceful, with one telling livestreamer Jim Kerr that if protesters want to be arrested, police “don’t want anyone to get hurt.”

The officer says they want people’s right to protest respected, but if arrests begin they want it to happen “peacefully.”

Katie Pasitney, whose parents own the farm, tells the officers in the meeting that lasts less than an hour that “people are on edge,” as she asks police not …