By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A succession of loud bangs and the sounds of a chainsaw and barking dogs filled the courtroom, punctuated by calls of “get your gun off of me,” as photojournalist Amber Bracken took the witness stand in her Supreme Court trial against the RCMP on Tuesday. Bracken and The Narwhal are suing the RCMP for wrongfully arresting and detaining her while on assignment and violating both her and the publication’s Charter rights in a high-stakes press freedom case set to unfold over the course of five weeks. To kick off Bracken’s testimony, The Narwhal’s lawyer, Sean Hern, played a video captured by CBC documentarian Michael Toledano showing the moments during and leading up to the arrest of Bracken, Toledano and four…
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