RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says the RCMP wants "lawful, peaceful dialogue," with no explanation as to why RCMP officers did nothing as lots of people broke the law in front of them.

Lucki says anyone who has information about criminal actions should report them. She doesn't explain why RCMP officers ignored First Nations fishers reporting crimes to them as they were unfolding. In front of them.

Here, for example, you can see several RCMP officers ignoring reports of crimes that are unfolding. Directly in front of them. https://www.facebook.com/james.ws.31/videos/433062914330668/

"We can't be in every single location," says Lucki, without explaining why the RCMP ignored the crimes that were unfolding DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THEM.

Lucki has been asked twice why the RCMP didn't intervene in the crimes they witnessed firsthand, and has twice given her we-can't-be-everywhere-at-once answer. So I guess her official position is pretending that the things we saw didn't happen.

"Our mandate is to keep people safe and enforce the law," Lucki says, without explain why the RCMP stood there silently instead of enforcing the law.

This is just... bizarre. She's really just pretending that whole fiasco didn't happen.

If the objective of this press conference was to cement my fears about the RCMP and its competence to enforce the law, mission accomplished.

I'm not sure it's even worth tweeting what Lucki is saying, because she's describing some sort of fantasy she has where officers quickly responded to every crime they witnessed.

Lucki is either unbelievably ignorant of what actually transpired, or so committed to the PR exercise that she won't acknowledge it.

[Lucki repeats talking points that don't acknowledge what actually happened]