The details so far are sparse, but it seems that the officers targeted were those who dared to speak out against criticisms of the institution and claims about its intrinsically racist past. Perhaps they were like former RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson, who in 2015, in the lead-up to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry, pointed out the inconvenient fact that, according to the available numbers at the time, roughly 70 per cent of the known offenders in solved cases were themselves Indigenous — a figure the inquiry would later dispute as not factually based, but one Paulson maintained reflected the data the RCMP had. This was not the kind of thing you were supposed to say back in 2015, and even less so today.