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Have had many riots in Vancouver, one after the Canucks lost to the Rangers in the Stanley Cup finals in 94, one after a Guns n Roses concert was cancelled, one during an APEC summit, and one on Chrietien's first visit back to Vancouver after the APEC riot that I can think of offhand, and in the Guns n Roses and APEC ones the police totally escalated the situation. So I can see both sides of the issue, since the aborigines probably feel that justice would not be served no matter if the cops had done wrong, and so they are left with little way to voice their opinions, while the police are just doing their job protecting the public, but some probably want to protect their fellow officers regardless of what really happened, and others just want to abuse their power to attack people using the riot as an excuse.
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