CBSA broke into Mohawk Security Locker and stole notebooks about Davis incident?

Thursday, December 17 2009, Nav Can Center, Cornwall Ontario

I am at the Davis vs CBSA Human Rights Tribunal, waiting for it to start. I will post what I see and hear. I won’t post too much about my own opinion today. I want to take some time to process everything I see and hear about this tribunal this year, and then I will post a story about what I personally think about the Davis vs CBSA Human Rights Tribunal, later this year. Wow, only a few more weeks left to this year.

9:37 am, The Chair, Réjean Bélanger, is explaining the next hearing will be held from 15th to 19th of March and 22nd to 26th of March 2010.  Richard Jacobs (Oka Dick) is being called in as the witness.

9:40 am, Richard Jacobs is being sworn in, with a bible.  Kakwerais is asking Richard Jacobs to look at documents and asking if the documents are his.  Richard Jacobs is stating that its his document, but it has some changes.  He said it is rough, because he felt this case was going nowhere, like all the other cases like this one (Davis vs CBSA Human Rights Tribunal).  Richard Jacobs is saying the document was just given to his supervisor as a rough draft.  Richard Jacobs is stating he was Mohawk Security Officer at the CBSA port for 24 1/2 years so far, as of this year.  Richard Jacobs is stating that he lives on Cornwall Island even during the time he has been a Mohawk Security Officer.

9:46 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining the changes he has seen with the relationship between CBSA and the Mohawk community. He sees that the relations have soured in the last 8 or 9 years, because the bad treatment of Natives has increased.  Richard Jacobs is saying that he thinks the relationship changed for the worse, when the older CBSA officers retired, that the newer CBSA officers started treating the Mohawks poorly.  Richard Jacobs explained that the older CBSA officers seemed to treat travelers with more respect and maintained a friendly atmosphere.

9:49 am,  Richard is responding that the newer CBSA officers received education about the Akwesasne community in regards to the borders, a few years ago.  Someone was driving the newer CBSA officers and Immigration officers,  around the Akwesasne community to show them where the borders are.

9:54 am, Richard Jacobs just said that he does not know who Lucinda Reading is.  Lucinda is missing from this meeting this morning.  Richard Jacobs is talking about a ‘cultural sensitivity’ class about the Mohawks, that only one CBSA officer attended.  Richard Jacobs is stating that CBSA officers attended the career fair, at the Anokowara Arena each year.  Richard Jacobs said he never attended the career fair, that other Mohawk Security did attend and they were paid to attend the career fair.

9:59 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that an xray machine was at the CBSA port on November 17th, (he does not know it’s called VACIS).  Richard Jacobs remembers seeing the VACIS team scan commercial vehicles.  Richard Jacobs is stating he does not know how many times the VACIS machine and team was at the CBSA port.  Richard Jacobs said the VACIS team & machine was at the CBSA port before November 17th 2005.

10:02 am, Richard Jacobs is stating that he never received any training about the VACIS machine or team.  Richard Jacobs is explaining that he felt that if he started directing black suvs to the commercial zone, that if it was Natives in the middle of a big contraband hit, that Mohawk security would be in a bad spot, possibly blamed.

10:05 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that he works through Mohawk Council, under CBSA. Richard Jacobs is explaining that he felt the VACIS team put Mohawk Security ‘on the spot’, and that their was ‘no blitz’.  Richard Jacobs is explaining that he could intervene with Natives in secondary that give CBSA officers a problem, because Mohawk Security is peace officers.

10:08 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that the Mohawk Security office is at the corner of the old CBSA building on Kawehnoke (Cornwall Island, Ontario).  Richard Jacobs agreed that Mohawk Security is for all people and not just Natives.

10:13 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that when he was a Mohawk Security officer and CBSA asked for his assistance it was because they were nervous.  Richard Jacobs stated that CBSA never asked for the Mohawk Security to assist them on November 17 nor November 18th.

10:15 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that he watched camera 3 and that they should have been recording the events, because they record 24 hours, 7 days a week.  Richard Jacobs is stating that their was no reason that the video camera would not have been recording, their were no power failures, their were no renovations, their was no reason for the cameras to not be recording.  Richard Jacobs is guessing that the cameras might have been installed about 3 years before 2005. Richard Jacobs is stating that he is not aware of any reason for the tapes to disfunction or not record properly.  Richard Jacobs just said that he never personally looked at the tapes.

10:20 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that sometimes the tape recordings were subpoenaed by lawyers. He is pointing out where cameras were located on the CBSA building in 2005.  He thinks their might have been about 12 cameras in 2005 and today their are about 35 or more.

10:24 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining that when Mohawk Security was taping Fallan Davis with camera 3, that he  did not look at the other cameras, because he put the camera 3 on full screen.  Richard Jacobs is explaining that the front counter was probably also looking at the cameras and that they could also get different views (full screen from one camera, full screen from all cameras).  Richard Jacobs is explaining that many CBSA officers could view the camera livefeeds from many locations.

10:27 am, Richard Jacobs is stating that those cameras were recording and the tapes should exist.  Richard Jacobs is explaining that the VACIS team and officers that were digging around in Fallan’s car, caught everyone’s attention.  Usually only 2 officers dig around a vehicle.  Richard Jacobs recalls seeing 4 or 5 officers digging around Fallan’s car, so everyone thought they must have found something really big in Fallan’s vehicle.

10:30 am, Richard Jacobs is stating that is was very unusual, to see how the officers started going after Fallan Davis.  Alot of yelling, screaming, pointing their fingers right into her face, at least two officers (Kevin Sills) were in Fallan’s face.  Richard Jacobs, was shocked that Kevin Sills was behaving ‘like another person’, because Richard had never seen him like that.  normally Kevin Sills was polite with anyone else.  Richard Jacobs is explaining that Kevin Sills, was just out of it, going after Fallan Davis with alot of anger, his face right in Fallan’s face, Kevin Sills finger was right in Fallan’s face, while he screamed at her, that Kevin Sills was right in Fallan’s face. Richard thought it seemed like Fallan was trying to answer Kevin Sills questions and demands.  Richard Jacobs keeps saying, the tape will show all of this.

10:35 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining their were at least 3 monitors and controls total; 1 in security office, 1 in supervisor office, and  1 in front counter back in 2005 during Davis incident.  Richard Jacobs is explaining that most of the secondary checks were coming from the Indian Lane (p4 lane).  “We had a feeling, my partner and I, that they were going after, probably a Native, we weren’t sure, but most likely, and it turned out to be Natives”  because the blitz was done on black suvs in the Indian Lane

10:42 am, Richard Jacobs is explaining how travelers get to the secondary inspection.  Richard is explaining that even though they have a computer that picks out the travelers, it still seems like it’s usually Natives being put into the secondary inspection.  Richard Jacobs is explaining how Mohawk Security was concerned because it seemed like mostly Natives were being put into secondary inspection.

prior to november 18 2005, he does not remember seeing another vehicle being scanned by VACIS. He also remembers a dark grey/black vehcile, being scanned by VACIS after Fallan Davis. He does remember only commercial vehicles being scanned by the VACIS machine.

10:47 am, Richard Jacobs is stating, on May 31st 2009, someone (only CBSA officers were allowed in the locker room)  broke the lock on Richard Jacobs locker and stole his notebooks that referred to this incident with Teiohontathe Fallan Davis.

We are all going on a quick break until 11:00 am.