Did you read what happened to those people? 1 died because he was hit by a car, the other 2 deaths were police related. Has nothing to do with other rioters killing anybody. They were celebrating a victory and were in the wrong place at the wrong time, not even close to the same thing as what went down last night in Vancouver.
Go ahead and wiggle your finger, the reports don't lie.
I have not posted here much on the real causes of the riot. I have waited a little for the dust to settle and the truth to be spread. There were 121 injuries related to the riot in total between the 2 downtown town hospitals, unless you can tell me there are other downtown hospitals other than VGH & St Pauls? The total hospital admnissions for the ER units in both hospitals was only marginally more then a average Saturday night. Nice facts there.
The Mayor (Gregeor Green Gonch Robertson) is the head of the VPD police board and as such is personally responsible for approving the police budgets in advance of large public events (olympics, fireworks etc.). He has a very skewed green agenda and will steal every penny from anywhere to use for his Green agenda. The fact that even with 10,000 additional law enforcement in town for the olympics the anarchist crowd tried to create a scene then, never entered into the mayors thinking when he was ordering extra screens before game 7. The riot at the hyatt must have been in a different city with a hyatt on Burrard. The 94 riot must have been another city with a high end shopping street named Robson. The first thing you learn in school about history is it has a strange way of repeating itself. The city Manager was on local TV in the third period saying "we have no concerns about crowd control". 25 mins. later the exact place she was standing was overrun.
The instigators of this riot are not any sort of true representation of the average Canuck fan or BC Resident. There have been 3 young men that I have heard of personally, who have been fired by their employers and had there names forwarded to the authorities. These young people will pay for the rest of their lives for the bad choices they made on Wed. night. This is the correct response for such stupidity.
Myself and my family all were at our respective homes watching due to the possibility of this sort of incident. We were downtown for some of the earlier games. I noticed a few meatheads carrying on then already and know what the history of our area is so I made sure we stayed at home a safe 10 miles away. Note my earlier crowd shots from after game 2.
I will however be very interested to see what comes out in the wash as to the resident cities of the perpetrators and instigators of this riot.
I will also be very interested in which local lawyers are representing these morons and on whose dime?
Finally if a middle aged construction manager (me) can see the possible carnage and the potential for such, what were the mayor, city manager and chief of police thinking? They need to be accountable for all the decisions and thought processes used to make such a gross error in judgement.
