RCMP national website goes offline Sunday › Medicine Hat News

The B.C. Coroner’s Service has identified the man killed by police outside a Dawson Creek restaurant Thursday evening as 48-year-old James Daniel McIntyre.

People claiming to be part of Anonymous said over the weekend that the victim was a member of a First Nations cell of Anonymous who was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

The RCMP’s website is down, but the cause is not clear. In a brief interview Sunday she said she would not comment on the mask the man was wearing or disclose who has that mask now.

A man whose death in a police shooting in northern British Columbia has prompted threats of retaliation from the online hacktivist group Anonymous has been identified.

The incident took place after calls were made complaining of damaged property at a restaurant in Dawson Creek.

“We may not even be able to prevent other Anons from being slain by murderous police – but we can sure as hell show them that there will be a steep price to pay when they kill us”. McIntyre was shot after he was confronted by RCMP officers outside an information session related to the Site C hydroelectric dam.

A police watchdog group in British Columbia said the RCMP misidentified the victim and that the original masked protester had already left the scene.

Yesterday (19 July), the main website for the RCMP was taken down and was offline for several hours.

Members of the group have claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks against RCMP websites on Sunday, while also threatening to reveal the identity of the RCMP officer involved in the fatal shooting.

The BC Coroners Service and the Independent Investigations Office are investigating the shooting.

The shooting in Dawson Creek happened at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, when RCMP responded to a report of a man creating a disturbance and destroying property at the Site C open house, Kilpatrick said.

“The information reported to the IIO was that the affected person had approached officers in an aggressive manner and when he did not comply with directions and commands, he was shot”, the IIO said in a news release on Monday.

In the days since, witness video of the shooting surfaced. In a video posted on Facebook, two officers with their handguns drawn stand over a man in a grey hoodie who is slumped on the ground.