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A second undercover Mountie who infiltrated the Coutts border blockade said Anthony (Tony) Olienick displayed a strong dislike of police and told her he had guns and ammunition at the ready if officers moved in.

“He was standing up for what he believed in,” the officer testified Friday in Court of King’s Bench.

“This is the hill he was prepared to die on.”

She testified Olienick made it clear to her he didn’t like police and felt “they should all be hung.”

The officer was on the witness stand in the trial of Olienick and Chris Carbert.

Both men are charged with conspiring to commit murder at the protest blockade. The blockade of vehicles at Coutts, Alta., paralyzed traffic at the Alberta-U.S. border for two weeks in early 2022. It was among a number of nationwide protests against COVID-19 rules and vaccine mandates.

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