so apparently im going to be in tomorrow's 24 newspaper. Somoene keep an eye out for my name (andreas)

I remember posting this guy right after the riots, lol.

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http://thedirty.com/2011/06/ashamed-of-my-people/

what happened?

http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigatag-canucks-g7.html

Pick out your favourite rioter

anyone work out at the ubc birdcoop?

pretty sure the camille chick works at the front desk there ...

I dunno, my manager came and informed me that I will be in tomorrows 24. I think it's for carrying the guy to the hospital.

How dare she change her story!
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halfer girls usually look hot/unique

halfer guys look weak/timid lol

http://virtualtours.northstudio.com/...ouver%20Riots/

360 video from within the riots. I don't know how they did this but good job!

the waldo guy was fun, brings back my memory

heres a couple fights from the riot i dont think ive seen in this thread

Think about it this way. Judging by the sheer amount of people that ignored the riot act (that includes our own RS members; you heard them too), there was just too many people that was not part of the riot that stayed as part of the crowd to either document or to live in the moment. Imagine if police used water hose on everyone as many have suggested; how many of you would have damaged equipment- phones, cameras, that would not be happy with the VPD. Shooting rubber bullets or rushing into the crowd with the riot police? Nah, a lot more would be angry at the police and might not even want to turn in the evidence they collected. The police did the absolute right thing this time, and only because of how technology evolved. They were calm in not aggravating the majority of the crowd, and then collect and use the information by the public afterwards for prosecution.

nice video, this brown guy watches a lot of UFC .. haha

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The VPD themselves did a great job, considering the situation they were put it. The problem is, the PLAN ITSELF was horrible, and they were put into a shitty situation. Like I said a few pages back, they needed to have a HUGE presence during the game, and should have been EVERYWHERE to encourage people to go home. Make arrests on every little incident, before it escalates, and it probably would have gone a bit smoother.

The Chief said things went well because the riot only lasted 3 hours.

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If that's really what they considered a success, then Vancouver was fucked to begin with.

You can blame the mayor for this one.. tree hugger robertson would rather spend money on hippy bike lanes than to protect the actual city from this type of shit.

A caller on the team 1040 the next day said his neighbour is VPD. His neighbour got home at 5am the day after being a part of the riot control and admitted they were way understaff due to one reason: The VPD requested permission to have more officers work game 7 (or maybe even the whole final run) but they were DENIED BY ROBERTSON due to budget reasons.

So the VPD did what they could with what they had. Instead of having enough officer presence during the whole event, they had to bring in cops from all over the lower mainland when it was already too late. I hate how the VPD basically have been biting their tongue, covering for the Happy Planet loser, Robertson.

So EIGHT of the 100+ weren't from Vancouver.. doesn't show much... People from vancouver have to stop being so ignorant that there were a ton of people that were involved in the riot were vancouverites as well.

8 of the 8 formally charged are not from Vancouver... we'll see where the rest of the 100+ come from, I guess. Obviously not everyone is from the suburbs.

I just thought it was an interesting observation, that's all.. not saying much about it :)

i think when most people say they are from "vancouver" they mean metro vancouver, which means every township/city that is listed in the 8 that were formally charged...

There should have been more officers including undercover ones in the crowd when the game began. There was no excuse for them not being there. They didn't need to do shit. Their presence alone would have been enough.Failing to do that alone is an F minus.

For the tiny little force they have after shits already went down, they did an ok job I give it that. Doesn't really matter though. Downtown Vancouver was doomed before the game was even began.

Hahaha you see the brown kid in the Sedin shirt get socked in the back of the head in this vid!! The pic sequence was a few pages back.

Did you not read my post just above?

LOL, I mentioned the same sequence you're talking about a few pages back. I can't stop laughing every time I watch that clip, haha.

Reports say there was an estimated 400-500 officers downtown. But experts have said, even if there were 1000 officers downtown - with a crowd size of 100'000 - if things suddenly go sout (like it did that night), 1000 officers would not have been enough to quiet it down quickly. They would still have had to redeploy (like they did) in riot gear. Having 1000 officers already in riot gear within a giant crowd like that would just be asking for trouble.

People don't understand what it's like for the police to try to handle a massive riot. Going up against the few who are causing the most amount of damage is useless. All you will do is just rile up the crowd, causing more violence and more agitated rioters. lets say you have 100 cops deployed together, but you're going against 1000 rioters - you will definitely be overwhelmed very, very quickly.

It's almost like a battle - they disperse the crowd, so they get put into smaller crowds, where hopefully, people disperse. You can't just right away say, "they lit that car on fire, we need to stop that right now", but there are thousands of people surrounding it, watching it.