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2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
	Smoke billowing from fires in downtown Vancouver during the riot
Date	June 15, 2011; 13 years ago
Time	7:45 p.m. – midnight (PDT)
Location	Downtown Vancouver
Coordinates	49°17′03″N 123°07′16″W / 49.28417°N 123.12111°W
Also known as	Vancouver riots
Type	Sports riot; hooliganism; vandalism; arson; vehicle fires;
Cause	Vancouver Canucks series loss to the Boston Bruins in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals
Deaths	2
Non-fatal injuries	140 (1 critically injured, 3 seriously)
Property damage	$4 million CAD (estimated); ($5.25 million in 2023 dollars)

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On the evening of June 15, 2011 in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a riot broke out almost immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' victory over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals to win the Stanley Cup.

Nearly 150 people were injured during the incident, including four by stabbing.^[1] On the night of the riot, nearly 100 arrests were made by the Vancouver police, including 85 for breach of peace, 8 for public intoxication and 8 for criminal code offenses such as assault and theft.^[6] In 2015, four years after the riot, police completed their investigation and recommended final charges against 2 suspects, bringing the total to 887 charges against 301 people.^[7] The riot did an estimated $4 million in damage with an extra $5 million being spent on additional staffing costs for prosecuting the rioters.^[4]

Before the riot

Previous riots

Violence has occasionally occurred in the wake of sporting events in North America and Europe,^[8]^[9] including multiple riots in Canada since the 1980s. Edmonton Oilers fans set fires and looted in the Whyte Avenue ("Blue Mile") area of Edmonton when the team qualified for the 2006 finals, Montreal was vandalized by Montreal Canadiens fans after the 1986 and 1993 titles and during the 2008 and 2010 playoffs,^[10] and Vancouver itself had riots following the Canucks' defeat in 1994.^[3]

The 1994 riot occurred after Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals, when the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in an away game. A watch party hosted at the Canucks' then-home stadium, Pacific Coliseum, attracted over 8,300 people, while many more congregated downtown. After the Canucks lost 3–2, a crowd of between 40,000 and 70,000 people gathered downtown. Fighting and looting ensued, with police using tear gas to clear the area.^[11] The riot led to over 190 injuries, $1.1 million in damages, and charges being brought against over 100 people.^[3]

In response to these riots, investigations were examined by the Vancouver Police Department, the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Fire Department, and other organizations. These reports found concerns including the lack of a sufficient traffic plan, issues with the communication equipment used by first responders, limited police visibility during the early stages of the gathering, lack of training in crowd control, and the availability of alcohol purchases from privately owned stores. An independent review of the 2011 riot found that the recommendations from 1994 were largely followed.^[11]^: 56

In Boston, there was no viewing party at TD Garden for the game. This was because of concern by the police that the additional people could lead to increased crime. Previous championships by the Boston Celtics, Boston Red Sox, and New England Patriots had led to wide-spread vandalism and three fatalities.^[12]

Fan zone

City organizers had set up a two-block long fan zone on six-lane Georgia Street near the Rogers Arena. Two big screen TVs were set up for fans to watch the game.^[13] Temporary fences and gates were set up to provide checkpoints where police could control access to the area and check for alcohol (which police generally poured out when found). Following recommendations stemming from the 1994 riot, all liquor stores in the area were closed earlier in the day.^[14] Crowds had been generally well-behaved in the fan zone for the previous six games, with roughly 70,000 attending each event. Similar though smaller events had been very successful during the 2010 Winter Olympics. For the final game, an estimated 100,000 people crowded into the area, and people found ways to enter the zone without being checked for alcohol. Planned corridors to allow movement of emergency vehicles became impassable.^[15]

Game

Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron each scored two goals in game seven.

The Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins participated in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, which was the culmination of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs. The series was played over seven matches, with the winner being the team that won four games. After the conclusion of the sixth game on June 13, 2011, the series was tied 3–3. The seventh game was played at the Canucks' home arena, Rogers Arena, as they had the better regular season record.^[16]

The game was played on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, and the puck dropped just after 5 pm PDT.^[12] Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas made 37 saves as Boston shut out Vancouver, 4–0, to win the Stanley Cup. Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand each scored two goals for Boston. Bergeron scored first at 14:37 in the first period, then had a shorthanded goal at 17:35 in the second. Marchand's first goal came at 12:13 of the second period; he then scored on an empty net late in the third.^[17] The Bruins outscored the Canucks 23-8 over the series.^[16] The win marked Boston's first championship since 1972.^[18] The series also marked both the Canucks' third appearance and loss in the Stanley Cup finals.^[16]

Riot

Trouble at the watch party began before the game had started. One of the entrances to the fan zone was removed, as the barricades were being breached. At 5:55, a five-man fight occurred in the fan zone. Thirty-five young people climbed onto the roof of a Budget Rent a Car building. These individuals started throwing bottles after Marchand's second goal for the Bruins, at which point the police department decided to remove them.^[11]^: 16–17

Around 7:18 pm, a fight with over 30 people took place. By 7:30, there was an increase in 911 calls about rioting, with disturbances including broken windows, 100 people on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (which was showing Wicked to a 1,900-person crowd), and looting of a Gucci store.^[11]^: 18–19

The riot began to take shape as the game came to a close at 7:45 p.m., with some spectators throwing bottles and other objects at the large screens in the viewing area.^[1] Boston Bruins flags and Canucks jerseys were set afire, and soon some rioters overturned a GMC Pickup in front of the main post office.^[1] Some porta-potties collapsed after people stood on top of them. People began jumping on the car that had been overturned, and sometime before 8:00, the car was on fire.^[11]^: 18

At 8:26, the police began to play a pre-recorded message which alerted the rioters that they were partaking in an illegal activity, and ordered them to leave the area. The police began using smoke bombs at 8:48. The SkyTrain system began displaying messages on electronic screens reading: "Due to the unstable situation in downtown Vancouver, we strongly advise customers NOT to travel downtown until further notice." Various stores began to be looted, including The Bay, London Drugs, Sears, and Sport Chek. At 10:30, the musical Wicked ended, and patrons were asked to stay inside the theatre to avoid the riot. The riot ended around midnight, with the police using a helicopter to confirm that there were no outstanding areas of activity.^[11]^: 21–23

By the end of the night, around 100 arrests were made by the Vancouver police, including 85 for breach of peace, eight for public intoxication, and only eight for criminal code offenses such as assault and theft.^[6] Nearly 150 people were treated by hospitals for injuries sustained in the riot. By the next day, four people were still in serious condition.^[1] Dozens of people were treated for tear gas and pepper spray exposure. Vancouver General Hospital said they treated two major traumas, three stabbing victims, and one person with a head injury. St. Paul's Hospital treated more than 50 people for riot-related injuries. Of these, most had been exposed to tear gas and were released. Others had broken bones or cuts from broken glass.^[19] The hospital operated under "Code Orange", which was their mass casualty protocol.^[11]^: 22 Their head doctor, Eric Grafstein, said that there were few injuries caused by police, especially compared to the 1994 riot, in which there were numerous baton strikes and dog bites.^[20] The BC Ambulance Service reported that they had transported a man who had jumped or fallen off of the Dunsmuir Viaduct, and that this man was in critical condition in the hospital.^[19]

Aftermath

Response

In the immediate aftermath, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson initially attributed the situation to "a small group of troublemakers".^[6] Vancouver Police Department Chief Jim Chu said that instigators appeared to be some of the same individuals involved in a protest on the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and that they came equipped with eye protection, gasoline and other tools. He called them "criminals and anarchists" who disguised themselves as fans.^[21] The idea that anarchists were involved in the violence was rejected by UBC political science professor Glen Coulthard and others in a Vancouver Sun article on June 24. "That this gets tagged as anarchist activity is just more of an assumption or bias that has been around for a long time," said Coulthard. "[A]narchists are a convenient scapegoat for the police to deflect responsibility for what happened," said another commentator.^[22] One critic indicated that authorities had made several mistakes in the planning for the crowd—among them allowing parked cars near the screens and leaving newspaper boxes nearby which could be used as projectiles.^[23] On June 20, Chu said "While we are still standing by that observation about the instigators, we are learning that most of the people that joined in the riot and that have now been charged represent a wider spectrum of young people, many of whom do not have criminal records."^[24]

Canucks general manager Mike Gillis claimed that the people responsible for rioting weren't their fans, saying "I think that would have happened whether we won or lost... When you're faced with thugs like that and people who are just prepared to punch other people in the face and think they're getting away with it, it's pretty hard to stop that. They're there for that purpose."^[25] Goaltender Roberto Luongo expressed a similar sentiment, stating that "those were not the real Vancouver fans that were doing that... I think it was isolated groups. It was tough to watch that something like that happened to the city."^[25] Captain Henrik Sedin showed appreciation for the people who cleaned up the city afterwards: "What happened with all the volunteers that came out, I think that shows more of what Vancouver is about than the night before."^[25]

Singer Michael Bublé, who attended the game, launched an ad campaign which encouraged people to identify guilty parties and to make their photographic evidence public. "They're trash, basically," he said, describing the rioters. "It was gutless and disgusting behaviour. And I'm grateful for the police and firemen and paramedics who put their lives on the line, because there were people who were so scared. And that mob mentality could have killed somebody."^[26]

An Angus Reid poll soon after the riot showed that 90% of British Columbia residents were disgusted by the events of the riot.^[27] In the same poll, two-thirds of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with how the police handled the riot.^[27] Over half of the respondents answered that they didn't want to see a ban on street parties in response to the riot.^[27]

Cleanup

A group of volunteers clean spray paint off a wall

A sign on a wall with other messages written on the day following the riot

After the riot, an estimated 15,000 volunteers organized to clean up graffiti and other damage. Many volunteers organized via texting and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and the Vancouver Police Department endorsed the efforts to help clean up.^[28] Streets were reportedly clean by 10 am, with volunteers having shown up with brooms and dustpans to clean the city. Boarded up windows were covered in apologies and defences of the city's reputation. In response, the Hudson's Bay Company, a major retailer in the area, hosted a free pancake breakfast in thanks.^[29]

Criminal prosecution

As many as 70 officers from eight different police agencies formed the Integrated Riot Investigation Team, tasked with sifting through hundreds of hours of video and other evidence to identify rioters.^[30]^[31] Several participants in the riots turned themselves in to police after their faces were broadcast on TV,^[32] including the person responsible for setting the first car on fire. More than 1,000,000 photos and over 1,000 hours of video recorded by citizens were sent to the Vancouver Police Department as evidence.^[33]

Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) offered their facial-recognition software to the police in an attempt to aid in their criminal investigation of the riot.^[34] In 2012, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, Elizabeth Denham, ruled that police could not use the software without a warrant requesting the information.^[35]

By July 2013, police had recommended 1,204 criminal charges against 352 suspected rioters.^[36] In July 2015, over four years after the riots, the last two suspects were charged.^[7] By then, a total of 887 criminal charges had been laid against 301 suspects, 274 of whom pled guilty.^[7] Police stated that they would continue to act on any tips they are provided and future charges could be laid.^[7]

Social media

Social media played a role in broadcasting and documenting the riot. Soon after the start of the riot, the event trended on Twitter. Many people recorded images and videos of the damage as it unfolded.^[37] Experts have pushed back against the theory that social media was the cause of the riot. Christopher J. Schneider, a sociologist from the University of British Columbia said that the social media usage was "crowd-sourced policing or lateral surveillance, where citizens were surveilling other citizens".^[38]

Many of the photos and videos taken of the riot were posted to social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube. This led to an unprecedented community effort to identify and report rioters.^[27] The Vancouver Police department received more than one million photos and tips from civilians,^[27] a load that one sergeant described as "overwhelming".^[24] The department issued a statement asking the public not to take justice into their own hands, saying that there was "a growing danger that the tools of social media will be used to mete out vigilante justice".^[39] Police encouraged those who were caught committing crimes on video to turn themselves in to avoid facing a public arrest.^[24] A study published in 2012 by Schneider and Daniel Trottier found that online vigilantes could increase police surveillance in the future, and raised concerns that doctored photos and videos could waste police resources as they try to filter out bad evidence.^[40] Additionally, the online effort to identify rioters sometimes identified minors, whose names cannot be made public in legal proceedings.^[41]

Rioters who were identified online often faced backlash, with participants being fired from their jobs, removed from athletic teams, and in some cases, receiving violent threats. Seventeen year-old rioter Nathan Kotylak and his family left their home after receiving threats. In a statement, his lawyer said that those who participated in online campaigns against rioters were "becoming part of the mob mentality that swept through members of the crowd" during the riot.^[42] Schneider concurred, saying that "Many of the comments are horrific, threatening things that these people might not normally say... There is a profound disconnect between who we are online and in life. We are still learning how to be cyber citizens".^[27] Another individual, Brock Anton, who posted on Facebook about the damage inflicted by the riot, was the target of harassment online for his alleged role in the riot. A Facebook page with the name "Brock Anton Sucks Dick" was created, and a song called "The Ballad of Brock Anton" received over 65,000 views on YouTube. However, Vancouver police later revealed that Anton wasn't involved in any criminal activities and declined to charge him.^[40] Camille Cacnio, a University of British Columbia student who stole two pairs of pants during the riot, expressed concerns that the online backlash had gone too far. She claimed that she had lost her job, lost friends, and that online posters had encouraged directing donations away from the Enspire Foundation, a charity that she was formerly involved in, due to her actions.^[43]

Financial losses

CBC News reported that the destruction caused by the rioters was worse than the 1994 riot, which cost around $1.1 million in damages.^[3] In 2016, B.C.'s crown prosecutors estimated that the riots cost $9 million, with damages costing around $4 million, and extra staffing costs for prosecution totaling around $5 million.^[4] Several large-scale stores such as London Drugs, The Bay, Sears Canada and Future Shop were among many that were looted.^[44]

In 2016, the ICBC won a lawsuit against 82 rioters, in which the defendants were found jointly liable for damages inflicted to automobiles during the riot.^[45] Of the defendants, 37 settled with the insurer, 35 received default judgements, and 10 went to trial. Nine of those ten were found liable. Sean Yates was the only defendant represented by a lawyer, and was found to be not liable due to insufficient evidence against him. This was despite a video of him throwing a mannequin through the window of a burning car, which the judge compared to "kicking a dead horse" as the car was already destroyed.^[46]

Independent review

An independent review commissioned by the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver released its 396-page report titled The Night the City Became a Stadium on August 31, 2011. This report labeled alcohol consumption as a primary cause of the riot. Additionally, the report concluded that the Vancouver Police Department's reinforcements arrived too late to control the crowd, although because the crowd had 155,000 people, it would be impossible for any sized police force to prevent the riot.^[11]^: 2

Vancouver tried to do a good thing and found itself in an almost impossible situation. There were too many people, not too few police. No plausible number of police could have prevented trouble igniting in the kind of congestion we saw on Vancouver streets that night.
— The Night the City Became a Stadium^[11]^: 2

The department had 446 officers at the riot, which increased to 928 by the end of the evening. The report laid out 53 recommendations for preventing a similar occurrence in the future, including the development of a regional framework for cooperation between emergency services in the event of a riot, and for TransLink to better control alcohol around the transit system. Additionally, the report found that a core group of 1,000 rioters were primarily responsible for the riot.^[47]

Media coverage

The riots sparked intense media coverage and attention on the local, national, and international level. Local media coverage of the riots began almost immediately after the game ended, with the local CBC, CTV and Global BC stations all running news coverage of the riots, with CTV and CBC doing so from studios located in downtown Vancouver itself.^[48]^[49] CBC News Network started running live coverage in conjunction with its nationally broadcast evening news show The National, with one reporter calling in her reports from inside the riot.^[50]

Prominent publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times and USA Today published editorials critical of the riots and its participants, as well as the city, noting the stark contrast between the Stanley Cup playoffs and the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[51] The Boston Herald provided coverage of the riots in addition to coverage of the Bruins' Stanley Cup celebrations, with other Boston media outlets providing their coverage of the riots.^[52]

Kissing couple photograph

During the riot, a photograph that depicted a young couple kissing while lying in the street during the riot, became an iconic image of the riots. This photograph, taken by Vancouver-based sports photographer Richard Lam, went viral on social media.^[53] Sports Illustrated called it "the most compelling sports image of the year".^[8] The photograph has been used worldwide in marketing campaigns,^[54] and is also used as the album cover of A Place for Us to Dream, a 2016 compilation album by the English alternative rock band Placebo.^[55]

At first, many viewers suspected the scene had been staged. Lam pushed back on this suggestion: "What you don't see in the frame is that twenty feet beyond is the mounted [police] squad, on horseback. I don't think they were in any mood for people to be playing around setting something up like this."^[53] The couple, who would be identified as Alexandra Thomas of Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Scott Jones of Perth, Western Australia, claimed that they were knocked down by the police's riot shields.^[56] Video evidence posted on YouTube later backed up their claims.^[57] In June 2016, it was reported that Thomas and Jones live in Perth, where they sleep under a poster copy of the photograph.^[58] As of 2021, the couple has remained together and are raising a family.^[54]

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External links

Hockey Riot 2011 - Vancouver Police Department
Vancouver Riots: New Life to Old Law Archived January 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[From_bad_to_brutal-1] Lindsay, Bethany (June 16, 2011). "From bad to brutal: Timeline of a riot". CTV Vancouver News. Archived from the original on September 2, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015.

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-|reported injuries        = 140 (1 critically injured, 3 seriously)<ref name="A tale of two riots">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/06/16/f-vancouver-riot-1994-2011.html |title=A tale of two riots |work=CBC News |date=June 14, 1994 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-date=September 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905122119/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/06/16/f-vancouver-riot-1994-2011.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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-The '''2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot''' was a [[sports riot|public disturbance]] in the [[Downtown Vancouver|downtown core]] of [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of June 15, 2011. The riot broke out almost immediately after the conclusion of the [[Boston Bruins]]' win over the [[Vancouver Canucks]] in game seven of the [[2011 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup Finals]], in which the Bruins won the [[Stanley Cup]].
+On the evening of June 15, 2011 in the [[Downtown Vancouver|downtown core]] of [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada, a [[sports riot|riot]] broke out almost immediately after the conclusion of the [[Boston Bruins]]' victory over the [[Vancouver Canucks]] in game seven of the [[2011 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup Finals]] to win the [[Stanley Cup]].
-Nearly 150 people were injured during the incident, including four stabbings.<ref name="From bad to brutal"/> On the night of the riot, nearly 100 arrests were made by the [[Vancouver Police Department|Vancouver police]], including 85 for breach of peace, eight for [[public intoxication]], and only eight for criminal code offenses such as assault and theft.
+Nearly 150 people were injured during the incident, including four by stabbing.<ref name="From bad to brutal"/> On the night of the riot, nearly 100 arrests were made by the [[Vancouver Police Department|Vancouver police]], including 85 for breach of peace, 8 for [[public intoxication]] and 8 for criminal code offenses such as assault and theft.<ref name=101arrested>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1036582 |title=Vancouver police arrest more than 100 in riot|publisher=CBC News |date=June 16, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110715091259/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/16/bc-riot-thursday.html| archive-date= July 15, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 2015, four years after the riot, police completed their investigation and recommended final charges against 2 suspects, bringing the total to 887 charges against 301 people.<ref name="Investigation winds down">{{cite news|title = Stanley Cup riot investigation winds down as last two suspects charged|work=The Vancouver Sun|url = https://vancouversun.com/sports/Stanley+riot+investigation+winds+down+last+suspects+charged/10318649/story.html|access-date = October 11, 2015|date=22 July 2015|archive-date = September 25, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150925202732/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Stanley+riot+investigation+winds+down+last+suspects+charged/10318649/story.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> The riot did an estimated $4 million in damage with an extra $5 million being spent on additional staffing costs for prosecuting the rioters.<ref name="The Province Cost Estimate"/>
-<ref name=101arrested>
-{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/16/bc-riot-thursday.html |title=Vancouver police arrest more than 100 in riot|publisher=CBC News |date=June 16, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110715091259/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/16/bc-riot-thursday.html| archive-date= July 15, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 2015, four years after the riot, police finished their investigation and recommended the final charges against two suspects, bringing the total to 887 charges against 301 people.<ref name="Investigation winds down">{{cite news|title = Stanley Cup riot investigation winds down as last two suspects charged|work=The Vancouver Sun|url = https://vancouversun.com/sports/Stanley+riot+investigation+winds+down+last+suspects+charged/10318649/story.html|access-date = October 11, 2015|date=22 July 2015|archive-date = September 25, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150925202732/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Stanley+riot+investigation+winds+down+last+suspects+charged/10318649/story.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> The riot did an estimated $4 million in damage, with an additional $5 million being spent on additional staffing costs for prosecuting the rioters.<ref name="The Province Cost Estimate"/>
 == Before the riot ==
 === Previous riots ===
-{{main|1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot}}
+{{Main|1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot}}
 Violence has occasionally occurred in the wake of sporting events in North America and Europe,<ref name="ballard20111226">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.si.com/vault/2011/12/26/106144748/the-kiss | title=The Kiss | magazine=Sports Illustrated | date=December 26, 2011 | access-date=December 24, 2011 | author=Ballard, Steve | archive-date=December 14, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214122849/http://www.si.com/vault/2011/12/26/106144748/the-kiss | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Mad blood stirring">{{Cite book|title=Mad Blood Stirring: the Inner Lives of Violent Men|last=Fairless|first=Daemon|publisher=Random House Canada|year=2018|isbn=978-0-345-81292-6|location=Toronto|pages=276|oclc=958486183}}</ref> including multiple riots in Canada since the 1980s. [[Edmonton Oilers]] fans set fires and looted in the Whyte Avenue ("[[Blue Mile]]") area of Edmonton when the team qualified for the [[2006 Stanley Cup Finals|2006 finals]], [[Montreal]] was vandalized by [[Montreal Canadiens]] fans after the [[1986 Stanley Cup Finals#Riot|1986]] and [[1993 Stanley Cup Finals#Riot|1993 titles]] and during the 2008 and 2010 playoffs,<ref>{{cite web|title = Here's a list of significant hockey riots in Canada|url = http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/40857-Heres-a-list-of-significant-hockey-riots-in-Canada.html|website = The Hockey News|access-date = September 14, 2015|date = June 15, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150831074217/http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/40857-Heres-a-list-of-significant-hockey-riots-in-Canada.html|archive-date = August 31, 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref> and Vancouver itself had [[1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot|riots following the Canucks' defeat in 1994]].<ref name="A tale of two riots" />
-The 1994 riot occurred after Game 7 of the [[1994 Stanley Cup Finals]], when the Canucks lost to the [[New York Rangers]] in an away game. A watch party hosted at the Canucks' then-home stadium, [[Pacific Coliseum]], attracted over 8,300 people, while many more congregated downtown. After the Canucks lost 3–2, a crowd of between 40,000 and 70,000 people gathered downtown. Fighting and looting ensued, with police using tear gas to  clear the area.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation">{{cite book |last1=Furlong |first1=John |author-link=John Furlong (sports administrator) |last2=Keefe |first2=Douglas |url=http://www.cbc.ca/bc/news/bc-110901-vancouver-riot-report.pdf |title=The Night the City Became a Stadium: INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE 2011 VANCOUVER STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS RIOT |location=Vancouver, BC, Canada |date=August 31, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513133113/http://www.cbc.ca/bc/news/bc-110901-vancouver-riot-report.pdf |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |access-date=January 4, 2015 |page=2}}</ref> The riot led to over 190 injuries, $1.1 million in damages, and charges being brought against over 100 people.<ref name="A tale of two riots"/>
+The 1994 riot occurred after Game 7 of the [[1994 Stanley Cup Finals]], when the Canucks lost to the [[New York Rangers]] in an away game. A watch party hosted at the Canucks' then-home stadium, [[Pacific Coliseum]], attracted over 8,300 people, while many more congregated downtown. After the Canucks lost 3–2, a crowd of between 40,000 and 70,000 people gathered downtown. Fighting and looting ensued, with police using tear gas to  clear the area.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation">{{Cite report |last1=Furlong |first1=John |author-link=John Furlong (sports administrator) |last2=Keefe |first2=Douglas |date=August 31, 2011 |title=The Night the City Became a Stadium: Independent Review of the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Playoffs Riot |url=http://www.cbc.ca/bc/news/bc-110901-vancouver-riot-report.pdf |location=Vancouver, BC, Canada |publisher=Government of British Columbia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513133113/http://www.cbc.ca/bc/news/bc-110901-vancouver-riot-report.pdf |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |access-date=January 4, 2015 |page=2}}</ref> The riot led to over 190 injuries, $1.1 million in damages, and charges being brought against over 100 people.<ref name="A tale of two riots"/>
-In response to these riots, investigations were examined by  the [[Vancouver Police Department]], the [[City of Vancouver]], the [[Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services|Vancouver Fire Department]], and other organizations. These reports found concerns including the lack of a sufficient traffic plan, issues with the communication equipment used by first responders, limited police visibility during the early stages of the gathering, lack of training in crowd control, and the availability of alcohol purchases from privately owned stores. A independent review of the 2011 riot found that the recommendations from 1994 were largely followed.<ref> Furlong, 2011, p.56</ref>
+In response to these riots, investigations were examined by  the [[Vancouver Police Department]], the [[City of Vancouver]], the [[Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services|Vancouver Fire Department]], and other organizations. These reports found concerns including the lack of a sufficient traffic plan, issues with the communication equipment used by first responders, limited police visibility during the early stages of the gathering, lack of training in crowd control, and the availability of alcohol purchases from privately owned stores. An independent review of the 2011 riot found that the recommendations from 1994 were largely followed.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|p=56}}
-In Boston, there was no viewing party at [[TD Garden]] for the game. This was because of concern by the police that the additional people could lead to increased crime. Previous championships by the [[Boston Celtics]], [[Boston Red Sox]], and [[New England Patriots]] had led wide-spread vandalism and three fatalities.<ref name="Bruins lead in Game 7" />
+In Boston, there was no viewing party at [[TD Garden]] for the game. This was because of concern by the police that the additional people could lead to increased crime. Previous championships by the [[Boston Celtics]], [[Boston Red Sox]], and [[New England Patriots]] had led to wide-spread vandalism and three fatalities.<ref name="Bruins lead in Game 7" />
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 The Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins participated in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, which was the culmination of the [[2011 Stanley Cup playoffs]]. The series was played over seven matches, with the winner being the team that won four games. After the conclusion of the sixth game on June 13, 2011, the series was tied 3–3. The seventh game was played at the Canucks' home arena, [[Rogers Arena]], as they had the better regular season record.<ref name="Bruins ruin Canucks">{{cite news |last1=Ziemer |first1=Brad |title=Bruins ruin Canucks' dream season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-bruins-ruin-canucks/140564175/ |access-date=9 February 2024 |newspaper=The Vancouver Sun |date=16 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209042211/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-bruins-ruin-canucks/140564175/ |archive-date=9 February 2024 |page=36}}</ref>
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 [[File:Riot police in Downtown Vancouver during 2011 Stanley Cup riot.jpg|thumb|A police officer stands near an overturned van during the riot.]]
-Trouble at the watch-party began before the game had started. One of the entrances to the fan-zone was removed, as the barricades were being breached. At 5:55, a five-man fight occurs in the fan zone. Thirty-five young people climbed onto the roof of a [[Budget Rent a Car]] building. These individuals start throwing bottles after Marchand's second goal for the Bruins, at which point the police department decided to remove them.<ref> Furlong, 2011, p.16-17</ref>
+Trouble at the watch party began before the game had started. One of the entrances to the fan zone was removed, as the barricades were being breached. At 5:55, a five-man fight occurred in the fan zone. Thirty-five young people climbed onto the roof of a [[Budget Rent a Car]] building. These individuals started throwing bottles after Marchand's second goal for the Bruins, at which point the police department decided to remove them.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|pp=16–17}}
-Around 7:18 pm, a fight with over 30 people takes place. By 7:30, there is an increase in 911 calls about rioting, with disturbances including broken windows, 100 people on the roof of the [[Queen Elizabeth Theatre]] (which was showing [[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]] to a 1,900-person crowd), and looting of a [[Gucci]] store.<ref> Furlong, 2011, p.18-19</ref>
+Around 7:18 pm, a fight with over 30 people took place. By 7:30, there was an increase in 911 calls about rioting, with disturbances including broken windows, 100 people on the roof of the [[Queen Elizabeth Theatre]] (which was showing [[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]] to a 1,900-person crowd), and looting of a [[Gucci]] store.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|pp=18–19}}
-The riot began to take shape as the game came to a close at 7:45&nbsp;p.m., with some spectators throwing bottles and other objects at the large screens in the viewing area.<ref name="From bad to brutal"/> Boston Bruins flags and Canucks jerseys were set afire, and soon some rioters overturned a vehicle in front of the main post office.<ref name="From bad to brutal">{{cite news|url=http://bc.ctvnews.ca/from-bad-to-brutal-timeline-of-a-riot-1.658118|title=From bad to brutal: Timeline of a riot|work=CTV Vancouver News|first=Bethany|last=Lindsay|date=June 16, 2011|access-date=September 14, 2015|archive-date=September 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902012645/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/from-bad-to-brutal-timeline-of-a-riot-1.658118|url-status=live}}</ref>  Some [[porta-potty|porta-potties]] collapsed after people stood on top of them. People began jumping on the car that had been overturned, and sometime before 8:00, the car was on fire.<ref> Furlong, 2011, p.18</ref>
+The riot began to take shape as the game came to a close at 7:45&nbsp;p.m., with some spectators throwing bottles and other objects at the large screens in the viewing area.<ref name="From bad to brutal"/> Boston Bruins flags and Canucks jerseys were set afire, and soon some rioters overturned a GMC Pickup in front of the main post office.<ref name="From bad to brutal">{{cite news|url=http://bc.ctvnews.ca/from-bad-to-brutal-timeline-of-a-riot-1.658118|title=From bad to brutal: Timeline of a riot|work=CTV Vancouver News|first=Bethany|last=Lindsay|date=June 16, 2011|access-date=September 14, 2015|archive-date=September 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902012645/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/from-bad-to-brutal-timeline-of-a-riot-1.658118|url-status=live}}</ref>  Some [[porta-potty|porta-potties]] collapsed after people stood on top of them. People began jumping on the car that had been overturned, and sometime before 8:00, the car was on fire.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|p=18}}
-At 8:26, the police began to play a pre-recorded message which alerted the rioters that they were partaking in an illegal activity, and ordered them to leave the area. The police began using smoke bombs at 8:48. The SkyTrain system began displaying messages on electronic screens reading: “Due to the unstable situation in downtown Vancouver, we strongly advise customers NOT to travel downtown until further notice.” Various stores began to be looted, including [[Hudson's Bay (retailer)|The Bay]], [[London Drugs]], [[Sears Canada|Sears]], [[Sport Chek]]. At 10:30, the musical Wicked ended, and patrons were asked to stay inside the theater to avoid the riot. The riot ended around midnight, with the police using a helicopter to confirm that there were no outstanding areas of activity.<ref>Furlong, 2011, p.21-23</ref>
+At 8:26, the police began to play a pre-recorded message which alerted the rioters that they were partaking in an illegal activity, and ordered them to leave the area. The police began using smoke bombs at 8:48. The SkyTrain system began displaying messages on electronic screens reading: "Due to the unstable situation in downtown Vancouver, we strongly advise customers NOT to travel downtown until further notice." Various stores began to be looted, including [[Hudson's Bay (retailer)|The Bay]], [[London Drugs]], [[Sears Canada|Sears]], and [[Sport Chek]]. At 10:30, the musical Wicked ended, and patrons were asked to stay inside the theatre to avoid the riot. The riot ended around midnight, with the police using a helicopter to confirm that there were no outstanding areas of activity.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|pp=21–23}}
-By the end of the night, around 100 arrests were made by the Vancouver police, including 85 for breach of peace, eight for public intoxication, and only eight for criminal code offenses such as assault and theft.<ref name=101arrested/> Nearly 150 people were treated by hospitals for injuries sustained in the riot. By the next day, four people were still in serious condition.<ref name="From bad to brutal"/> Dozens of people were treated for tear gas and pepper spray exposure. [[Vancouver General Hospital]] said they treated two major traumas, three stabbing victims, and one person with a head injury. [[St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)|St. Paul's Hospital]] treated more than 50 people for riot-related injuries. Of these, most had been exposed to tear gas and
+By the end of the night, around 100 arrests were made by the Vancouver police, including 85 for breach of peace, eight for public intoxication, and only eight for criminal code offenses such as assault and theft.<ref name=101arrested/> Nearly 150 people were treated by hospitals for injuries sustained in the riot. By the next day, four people were still in serious condition.<ref name="From bad to brutal"/> Dozens of people were treated for tear gas and pepper spray exposure. [[Vancouver General Hospital]] said they treated two major traumas, three stabbing victims, and one person with a head injury. [[St. Paul's Hospital (Vancouver)|St. Paul's Hospital]] treated more than 50 people for riot-related injuries. Of these, most had been exposed to tear gas and were released. Others had broken bones or cuts from broken glass.<ref name="Riots erupt"/> The hospital operated under "Code Orange", which was their mass casualty protocol.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|p=22}} Their head doctor, Eric Grafstein, said that there were few injuries caused by police, especially compared to the 1994 riot, in which there were numerous baton strikes and dog bites.<ref name="St Paul's ER">{{cite news|last=Fournier |first=Suzanne |url=https://theprovince.com/news/Paul+swamped+injured/4962682/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619215452/http://www.theprovince.com/news/Paul%2Bswamped%2Binjured/4962682/story.html |archive-date=June 19, 2011 |title=St. Paul's ER swamped by injured |work=The Province |date=November 30, 2010 |access-date=June 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The [[British Columbia Ambulance Service|BC Ambulance Service]] reported that they had transported a man who had jumped or fallen off of the [[Dunsmuir Viaduct]], and that this man was in critical condition in the hospital.<ref name="Riots erupt">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707|work=CBC News|title=Riots erupt in Vancouver after Canucks loss|date=June 13, 2014|access-date=February 1, 2016|archive-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201012920/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707|url-status=live}}</ref>
-were released. Others had broken bones or cuts from broken glass.<ref name="Riots erupt"/> The hospital operated under "Code Orange", which was their mass casualty protocol.<ref>Furlong, 2011, p.22</ref> Their head doctor, Eric Grafstein, said that there were few injuries caused by police, especially compared to the 1994 riot, in which there were numerous baton strikes and dog bites.<ref name="St Paul's ER">{{cite news|last=Fournier |first=Suzanne |url=https://theprovince.com/news/Paul+swamped+injured/4962682/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619215452/http://www.theprovince.com/news/Paul%2Bswamped%2Binjured/4962682/story.html |archive-date=June 19, 2011 |title=St. Paul's ER swamped by injured |work=The Province |date=November 30, 2010 |access-date=June 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>   The [[British Columbia Ambulance Service|BC Ambulance service]] reported that they had transported a man who had jumped or fallen off of the [[Dunsmuir Viaduct]], and that this man was in critical condition in the hospital.<ref name="Riots erupt">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707|work=CBC News|title=Riots erupt in Vancouver after Canucks loss|date=June 13, 2014|access-date=February 1, 2016|archive-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201012920/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707|url-status=live}}</ref>
 ==Aftermath==
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 In the immediate aftermath, Vancouver Mayor [[Gregor Robertson (politician)|Gregor Robertson]] initially attributed the situation to "a small group of troublemakers".<ref name=101arrested/> [[Vancouver Police Department]] Chief [[Jim Chu]] said that instigators appeared to be some of the same individuals involved in a [[Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Winter Olympics#Protests|protest]] on the opening day of the [[2010 Winter Olympics]], and that they came equipped with eye protection, gasoline and other tools. He called them "criminals and anarchists" who disguised themselves as fans.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/16/canada.riots/ |title=Vancouver police blame Stanley Cup riots on anarchists |publisher=CNN |date= June 17, 2011|access-date=June 16, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110617015410/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/06/16/canada.riots/| archive-date= June 17, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> The idea that anarchists were involved in the violence was rejected by [[University of British Columbia|UBC]] political science professor [[Glen Coulthard]] and others in a ''Vancouver Sun'' article on June 24. "That this gets tagged as anarchist activity is just more of an assumption or bias that has been around for a long time," said Coulthard. "[A]narchists are a convenient scapegoat for the police to deflect responsibility for what happened," said another commentator.<ref name="Don't blame the anarchists, UBC professor says">{{cite news |last1=Law |first1=Stephanie |title=Don't blame the anarchists, UBC professor says |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-dont-blame-the-anarch/143326151/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=24 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314032650/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-dont-blame-the-anarch/143326151/ |archive-date=14 March 2024 |page=9}}</ref> One critic indicated that authorities had made several mistakes in the planning for the crowd—among them allowing parked cars near the screens and leaving newspaper boxes nearby which could be used as projectiles.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/06/18/vancouver-riot-police-made-mistakes-says-author-report-on-1994-mayhem/|title= Vancouver Riot: Police made mistakes, says author report on 1994 mayhem|first= Sarah|last= Boesvald|work= National Post|date= June 18, 2011|access-date= June 18, 2011|archive-date= March 6, 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240306053201/https://nationalpost.com/category/news/|url-status= live}}</ref> On June 20, Chu said "While we are still standing by that observation about the instigators, we are learning that most of the people that joined in the riot and that have now been charged represent a wider spectrum of young people, many of whom do not have criminal records."<ref name="Police overwhelmed"/>
-Canucks general manager [[Mike Gillis]]  claimed that the people responsible for rioting weren't their fans, saying "I think that would have happened whether we won or lost... When you’re faced with thugs like that and people who are just prepared to punch other people in the face and think they’re getting away with it, it’s pretty hard to stop that. They’re there for that purpose."<ref name="True fans not to blame">{{cite news |date=17 June 2011|author1=Sportsnet Staff |title=Canucks: 'True fans' not to blame for riot |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/stanley-cup-riot-0/ |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=Sportsnet |publisher=Rogers Digital Media |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715232639/https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/stanley-cup-riot-0/ |archive-date=15 July 2022}}</ref> Goaltender [[Roberto Luongo]] expressed  a similar sentiment, stating that "those were not the real Vancouver fans that were doing that... I think it was isolated groups. It was tough to watch that something like that happened to the city."<ref name="True fans not to blame"/> Captain [[Henrik Sedin]] showed appreciation for the people who cleaned up the city afterwards: "What happened with all the volunteers that came out, I think that shows more of what Vancouver is about than the night before."<ref name="True fans not to blame"/>
+Canucks general manager [[Mike Gillis]]  claimed that the people responsible for rioting weren't their fans, saying "I think that would have happened whether we won or lost... When you're faced with thugs like that and people who are just prepared to punch other people in the face and think they're getting away with it, it's pretty hard to stop that. They're there for that purpose."<ref name="True fans not to blame">{{cite news |date=17 June 2011|author1=Sportsnet Staff |title=Canucks: 'True fans' not to blame for riot |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/stanley-cup-riot-0/ |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=Sportsnet |publisher=Rogers Digital Media |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715232639/https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/stanley-cup-riot-0/ |archive-date=15 July 2022}}</ref> Goaltender [[Roberto Luongo]] expressed  a similar sentiment, stating that "those were not the real Vancouver fans that were doing that... I think it was isolated groups. It was tough to watch that something like that happened to the city."<ref name="True fans not to blame"/> Captain [[Henrik Sedin]] showed appreciation for the people who cleaned up the city afterwards: "What happened with all the volunteers that came out, I think that shows more of what Vancouver is about than the night before."<ref name="True fans not to blame"/>
-Singer [[Michael Bublé]], who attended the game, launched an ad campaign which encouraged people to identity guilty parties and to make their photographic evidence public. "They're trash, basically," he said, describing the rioters. "It was gutless and disgusting behaviour. And I'm grateful for the police and firemen and paramedics who put their lives on the line, because there were people who were so scared. And that mob mentality could have killed somebody."<ref |name=“Buble”>
+Singer [[Michael Bublé]], who attended the game, launched an ad campaign which encouraged people to identify guilty parties and to make their photographic evidence public. "They're trash, basically," he said, describing the rioters. "It was gutless and disgusting behaviour. And I'm grateful for the police and firemen and paramedics who put their lives on the line, because there were people who were so scared. And that mob mentality could have killed somebody."<ref |name=“Buble”>{{cite news |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/singer-bubl-launches-ad-campaign-to-identify-rioters/article2066361/ |title=Singer Bublé launches ad campaign to identify rioters|first= Kerry|last= Gold|work=theglobeandmail.com |date= June 17, 2011|access-date=June 18, 2011 |location=Toronto|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161204115253/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/singer-bubl-launches-ad-campaign-to-identify-rioters/article2066361/ | archive-date= December 4, 2016 | url-status= live}}
-{{cite news |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/singer-bubl-launches-ad-campaign-to-identify-rioters/article2066361/ |title=Singer Bublé launches ad campaign to identify rioters|first= Kerry|last= Gold|work=theglobeandmail.com |date= June 17, 2011|access-date=June 18, 2011 |location=Toronto|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161204115253/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/singer-bubl-launches-ad-campaign-to-identify-rioters/article2066361/ | archive-date= December 4, 2016 | url-status= live}}
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 ===Criminal prosecution===
-As many as 70 officers from eight different police agencies formed the Integrated Riot Investigation Team, tasked with sifting through hundreds of hours of video and other evidence to identify rioters.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/31/stanley-cup-riots-vancouver-police-set-to-charge-60-people-with-160-offences/ |title=Stanley Cup riots: Vancouver police set to charge 60 people with 160 offences  |newspaper=National Post |date=October 31, 2011 |access-date=May 12, 2014 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306053217/https://nationalpost.com/category/news/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=18 April 2012|last=Dhillon |first=Sunny|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-urged-to-dig-deeper-to-pay-riot-probes-2-million-tab/article4100982/ |title=B.C. urged to dig deeper to pay riot probe's $2-million tab |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=May 12, 2014 |archive-date=May 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529225524/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-urged-to-dig-deeper-to-pay-riot-probes-2-million-tab/article4100982/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Several participants in the riots turned themselves in to police after their faces were broadcast on TV,<ref name="RioterTurnIn">{{cite news|url=https://theprovince.com/sports/rioters+turn+themselves+police+upping+investigation+team/4965041/story.html |title=Six rioters turn themselves in, police upping investigation team |first=Niamh |last=Scallan |work=The Province |date=June 17, 2011 |access-date=September 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017085301/http://www.theprovince.com/sports/rioters%2Bturn%2Bthemselves%2Bpolice%2Bupping%2Binvestigation%2Bteam/4965041/story.html |archive-date=October 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> including the person responsible for setting the first car on fire. More than 1,000,000 photos and over 1,000 hours of video recorded by citizens were sent to the Vancouver Police Department as evidence.<ref name="1 million riot photos sent to police">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/19/bc-stanley-cup-riot-charges.html |title=1 million riot photos sent to police |publisher=CBC |date=June 19, 2011 |access-date=June 20, 2011 |archive-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621210143/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/19/bc-stanley-cup-riot-charges.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+As many as 70 officers from eight different police agencies formed the Integrated Riot Investigation Team, tasked with sifting through hundreds of hours of video and other evidence to identify rioters.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/31/stanley-cup-riots-vancouver-police-set-to-charge-60-people-with-160-offences/ |title=Stanley Cup riots: Vancouver police set to charge 60 people with 160 offences  |newspaper=National Post |date=October 31, 2011 |access-date=May 12, 2014 |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306053217/https://nationalpost.com/category/news/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=18 April 2012|last=Dhillon |first=Sunny|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-urged-to-dig-deeper-to-pay-riot-probes-2-million-tab/article4100982/ |title=B.C. urged to dig deeper to pay riot probe's $2-million tab |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=May 12, 2014 |archive-date=May 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529225524/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-urged-to-dig-deeper-to-pay-riot-probes-2-million-tab/article4100982/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Several participants in the riots turned themselves in to police after their faces were broadcast on TV,<ref name="RioterTurnIn">{{cite news|url=https://theprovince.com/sports/rioters+turn+themselves+police+upping+investigation+team/4965041/story.html |title=Six rioters turn themselves in, police upping investigation team |first=Niamh |last=Scallan |work=The Province |date=June 17, 2011 |access-date=September 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017085301/http://www.theprovince.com/sports/rioters%2Bturn%2Bthemselves%2Bpolice%2Bupping%2Binvestigation%2Bteam/4965041/story.html |archive-date=October 17, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> including the person responsible for setting the first car on fire. More than 1,000,000 photos and over 1,000 hours of video recorded by citizens were sent to the Vancouver Police Department as evidence.<ref name="1 million riot photos sent to police">{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/1-million-riot-photos-sent-to-police-1.1046250 |title=1 million riot photos sent to police |publisher=CBC |date=June 19, 2011 |access-date=June 20, 2011 |archive-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621210143/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/19/bc-stanley-cup-riot-charges.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 [[Insurance Corporation of British Columbia]] (ICBC) offered their facial-recognition software to the police in an attempt to aid in their criminal investigation of the riot.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.straight.com/news/icbc-offers-facial-recognition-technology-vancouver-polices-riot-investigation|first=Stephen|last=Hull|title=ICBC offers facial-recognition technology to Vancouver police's riot investigation|date=2011-06-17|website=The Georgia Straight|language=en|access-date=2020-01-25|archive-date=January 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125114046/https://www.straight.com/news/icbc-offers-facial-recognition-technology-vancouver-polices-riot-investigation|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, [[Elizabeth Denham]], ruled that police could not use the software without a warrant requesting the information.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-can-t-use-icbc-facial-recognition-to-track-rioters-1.1207398|title=Police can't use ICBC facial recognition to track rioters|date=Feb 16, 2012|work=CBC News|access-date=2020-01-25|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810220024/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-can-t-use-icbc-facial-recognition-to-track-rioters-1.1207398|url-status=live}}</ref>
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 Social media played a role in broadcasting and documenting the riot. Soon after the start of the riot, the event trended on [[Twitter]]. Many people recorded images and videos of the damage as it unfolded.<ref name="Social Media Bleacher Report">{{cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=Bobby |title=Vancouver Riot: Social Media's Dominating Role in the Violence |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/738456-vancouver-riot-social-medias-dominating-role-in-the-violence |access-date=12 February 2024 |work=bleacher report |publisher=Bleacher Report, Inc |date=17 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621001549/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/738456-vancouver-riot-social-medias-dominating-role-in-the-violence |archive-date=21 June 2011}}</ref> Experts have pushed back against the theory that social media was the cause of the riot. [[Christopher J. Schneider]], a sociologist from the [[University of British Columbia]] said that the social media usage was "crowd-sourced policing or lateral surveillance, where citizens were surveilling other citizens".<ref name="Social media and the riots">{{cite web|title = Social Media and the 2011 Vancouver Riots |last=Lewis|first=Nick|url = http://wire.arts.ubc.ca/featured/social-media-and-the-2011-vancouver-riots/|date=14 June 2013|website = wire.arts.ubc.ca|access-date = December 12, 2015 |publisher=The University of British Columbia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802120642/http://wire.arts.ubc.ca/featured/social-media-and-the-2011-vancouver-riots/ |archive-date=2 August 2013}}</ref>
-Many of the photos and videos taken of the riot were posted to social media sites such as [[Facebook]] and [[YouTube]]. This led to an unprecedented community effort to identify and report rioters.<ref name="Crown to look at charges">{{cite news|url=http://www.globaltvbc.com/Vancouver+riots+2011+Crown+look+potential+charges/4976048/story.html |title=Vancouver riots 2011: Crown to look at potential charges |publisher=Shaw Media Inc. |date=June 20, 2011 |access-date=September 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314091148/http://www.globaltvbc.com/Vancouver%2Briots%2B2011%2BCrown%2Blook%2Bpotential%2Bcharges/4976048/story.html |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |via=Global News Canada BC }}
+Many of the photos and videos taken of the riot were posted to social media sites such as [[Facebook]] and [[YouTube]]. This led to an unprecedented community effort to identify and report rioters.<ref name="Crown to look at charges">{{cite news|url=http://www.globaltvbc.com/Vancouver+riots+2011+Crown+look+potential+charges/4976048/story.html |title=Vancouver riots 2011: Crown to look at potential charges |publisher=Shaw Media Inc. |date=June 20, 2011 |access-date=September 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314091148/http://www.globaltvbc.com/Vancouver%2Briots%2B2011%2BCrown%2Blook%2Bpotential%2Bcharges/4976048/story.html |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |via=Global News Canada BC }}</ref> The Vancouver Police department received more than one million photos and tips from civilians,<ref name="Crown to look at charges"/> a load that one sergeant described as "overwhelming".<ref name="Police overwhelmed">{{cite news | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-police-shift-blame-for-riot-1.995380 | title=Police overwhelmed by social media evidence | date=June 20, 2011 | access-date=June 20, 2011 | work=CBC News | archive-date=June 22, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622061923/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/20/bc-vancouver-police-riot.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The department issued a statement asking the public not to take justice into their own hands, saying that there was "a growing danger that the tools of social media will be used to mete out vigilante justice".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://vpdreleases.icontext.com/2011/06/20/vpd-statement/|title=VPD Statement|publisher=Vancouver Police Department|date=June 20, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623040539/http://vpdreleases.icontext.com/2011/06/20/vpd-statement/|archive-date=June 23, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Police encouraged those who were caught committing crimes on video to turn themselves in to avoid facing a public arrest.<ref name="Police overwhelmed"/> A study published in 2012 by Schneider and Daniel Trottier found that online vigilantes could increase police surveillance in the future, and raised concerns that doctored photos and videos could waste police resources as they try to filter out bad evidence.<ref name="Vigilantes slow investigations">{{cite news|last=Crawford |first=Tiffany |url=https://vancouversun.com/technology/Online+vigilantes+slow+police+investigations+report+Stanley/7478872/story.html |title=Online vigilantes can slow police investigations, UBC study on Stanley Cup riot concludes |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=October 31, 2012 |access-date=February 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121223150651/http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Online+vigilantes+slow+police+investigations+report+Stanley/7478872/story.html |archive-date=23 December 2012}}</ref> Additionally, the online effort to identify rioters sometimes identified minors, whose names cannot be made public in legal proceedings.<ref name="One year later">{{cite web|date=13 June 2012|title = The riot one year later: The effect of social media|url = http://www.news1130.com/2012/06/13/the-riot-one-year-later-the-effect-of-social-media/|website = City News Vancouver|access-date = December 12, 2015|archive-date = December 22, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222083404/http://www.news1130.com/2012/06/13/the-riot-one-year-later-the-effect-of-social-media/|url-status = live}}</ref>
-</ref> The Vancouver Police department received more than one million photos and tips from civilians,<ref name="Crown to look at charges"/> a load that one sergeant described as "overwhelming".<ref name="Police overwhelmed">{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/20/bc-vancouver-police-riot.html? | title=Police overwhelmed by social media evidence | date=June 20, 2011 | access-date=June 20, 2011 | work=CBC News | archive-date=June 22, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622061923/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/20/bc-vancouver-police-riot.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The department issued a statement asking the public not to take justice into their own hands, saying that there was "a growing danger that the tools of social media will be used to mete out vigilante justice".<ref>
-{{cite news|url=http://vpdreleases.icontext.com/2011/06/20/vpd-statement/|title=VPD Statement|publisher=Vancouver Police Department|date=June 20, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623040539/http://vpdreleases.icontext.com/2011/06/20/vpd-statement/|archive-date=June 23, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
-</ref> Police encouraged those who were caught committing crimes on video to turn themselves in to avoid facing a public arrest.<ref name="Police overwhelmed"/> A study published in 2012 by Schneider and Daniel Trottier found that online vigilantes could increase police surveillance in the future, and raised concerns that doctored photos and videos could waste police resources as they try to filter out bad evidence.<ref name="Vigilantes slow investigations">{{cite news|last=Crawford |first=Tiffany |url=https://vancouversun.com/technology/Online+vigilantes+slow+police+investigations+report+Stanley/7478872/story.html |title=Online vigilantes can slow police investigations, UBC study on Stanley Cup riot concludes |work=The Vancouver Sun |date=October 31, 2012 |access-date=February 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121223150651/http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Online+vigilantes+slow+police+investigations+report+Stanley/7478872/story.html |archive-date=23 December 2012}}</ref> Additionally, the online effort to identify rioters sometimes identified minors, whose names cannot be made public in legal proceedings.<ref name="One year later">{{cite web|date=13 June 2012|title = The riot one year later: The effect of social media|url = http://www.news1130.com/2012/06/13/the-riot-one-year-later-the-effect-of-social-media/|website = City News Vancouver|access-date = December 12, 2015|archive-date = December 22, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222083404/http://www.news1130.com/2012/06/13/the-riot-one-year-later-the-effect-of-social-media/|url-status = live}}</ref>
-Rioters who were identified online often faced backlash, with participants being fired from their jobs, removed from athletic teams, and in some cases, receiving violent threats. Seventeen year-old rioter Nathan Kotylak and his family left their home after receiving threats. In a statement, his lawyer said that those who participated in online campaigns against rioters were "becoming part of the [[mob mentality]] that swept through members of the crowd" during the riot.<ref name="Kotylak leaves home">{{cite news |url=https://vancouversun.com/sports/Nathan+Kotylak+family+face+backlash+forced+leave+home/4972283/story.html
+Rioters who were identified online often faced backlash, with participants being fired from their jobs, removed from athletic teams, and in some cases, receiving violent threats. Seventeen year-old rioter Nathan Kotylak and his family left their home after receiving threats. In a statement, his lawyer said that those who participated in online campaigns against rioters were "becoming part of the [[mob mentality]] that swept through members of the crowd" during the riot.<ref name="Kotylak leaves home">{{cite news |url=https://vancouversun.com/sports/Nathan+Kotylak+family+face+backlash+forced+leave+home/4972283/story.html |title=Rioting teen Nathan Kotylak and family face backlash, forced to leave home |first=Denise |last=Ryan |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |date=June 20, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110625012330/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Nathan+Kotylak+family+face+backlash+forced+leave+home/4972283/story.html|archive-date=25 June 2011}}</ref> Schneider concurred, saying that "Many of the comments are horrific, threatening things that these people might not normally say... There is a profound disconnect between who we are online and in life. We are still learning how to be cyber citizens".<ref name="Crown to look at charges"/> Another individual, Brock Anton, who posted on Facebook about the damage inflicted by the riot, was the target of harassment online for his alleged role in the riot. A Facebook page with the name "Brock Anton Sucks Dick" was created, and a song called "The Ballad of Brock Anton" received over 65,000 views on YouTube. However, Vancouver police later revealed that Anton wasn't involved in any criminal activities and declined to charge him.<ref name="Vigilantes slow investigations"/> Camille Cacnio, a [[University of British Columbia]] student who stole two pairs of pants during the riot, expressed concerns that the online backlash had gone too far. She claimed that she had lost her job, lost friends, and that online posters had encouraged directing donations away from the Enspire Foundation, a charity that she was formerly involved in, due to her actions.<ref name="Mob seeks forgiveness">{{cite news|author = Bouw|url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/faces-in-the-mob-seek-forgiveness-after-vancouvers-stanley-cup-riots/article2067208/|title = Faces in the mob seek forgiveness after Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots|newspaper = The Globe and Mail|access-date = September 14, 2015|location = Toronto|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110620112309/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/faces-in-the-mob-seek-forgiveness-after-vancouvers-stanley-cup-riots/article2067208/|archive-date = June 20, 2011|url-status = live|first = Brenda|date = June 19, 2011}}
-|title=Rioting teen Nathan Kotylak and family face backlash, forced to leave home |first=Denise |last=Ryan |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |date=June 20, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110625012330/http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Nathan+Kotylak+family+face+backlash+forced+leave+home/4972283/story.html|archive-date=25 June 2011}}
-</ref> Schneider concurred, saying that "Many of the comments are horrific, threatening things that these people might not normally say... There is a profound disconnect between who we are online and in life. We are still learning how to be cyber citizens".<ref name="Crown to look at charges"/> Another individual, Brock Anton, who posted on Facebook about the damage inflicted by the riot, was the target of harassment online for his alleged role in the riot. A Facebook page with the name "Brock Anton Sucks Dick" was created, and a song called "The Ballad of Brock Anton" received over 65,000 views on YouTube. However, Vancouver police later revealed that Anton wasn't involved in any criminal activities and declined to charge him.<ref name="Vigilantes slow investigations"/> Camille Cacnio, a [[University of British Columbia]] student who stole two pairs of pants during the riot, expressed concerns that the online backlash had gone too far. She claimed that she had lost her job, lost friends, and that online posters had encouraged directing donations away from the Enspire Foundation, a charity that she was formerly involved in, due to her actions.<ref name="Mob seeks forgiveness">{{cite news|author = Bouw|url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/faces-in-the-mob-seek-forgiveness-after-vancouvers-stanley-cup-riots/article2067208/|title = Faces in the mob seek forgiveness after Vancouver's Stanley Cup riots|newspaper = The Globe and Mail|access-date = September 14, 2015|location = Toronto|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110620112309/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/faces-in-the-mob-seek-forgiveness-after-vancouvers-stanley-cup-riots/article2067208/|archive-date = June 20, 2011|url-status = live|first = Brenda|date = June 19, 2011}}
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 ===Financial losses===
 [[File:Aftermath of Vancouver Stanley Cup Riots (5842763546).jpg|thumb|A [[BMO Bank]] branch remains open despite damages from the riots]]
 [[CBC News]] reported that the destruction caused by the rioters was worse than the [[1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot|1994 riot]], which cost around $1.1 million in damages.<ref name="A tale of two riots"/> In 2016, B.C.'s crown prosecutors estimated that the riots cost $9 million, with damages costing around $4 million, and extra staffing costs for prosecution totaling around $5 million.<ref name="The Province Cost Estimate"/> Several large-scale stores such as [[London Drugs]], [[Hudson's Bay (retailer)|The Bay]], [[Sears Canada]] and [[Future Shop]] were among many that were looted.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hager |first=Mike |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/Anatomy+Riot/4962418/story.html |date=17 June 2011|title=Anatomy of a Riot |work=The Vancouver Sun |access-date=June 17, 2011 |archive-date=June 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622034854/http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Anatomy+Riot/4962418/story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 ===Independent review===
 [[File:Riot police in Downtown Vancouver (from high-rise) 02.jpg|thumb|Multiple police officers stand in riot gear during the riots]]
-An independent review commissioned by the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver released its 396-page report titled ''The Night the City Became a Stadium'' on August 31, 2011. This report labeled alcohol consumption as a primary cause of the riot. Additionally, the report concluded that the [[Vancouver Police Department]]'s reinforcements arrived too late to control the crowd, although because the crowd had 155,000 people, it would be impossible for any sized police force to prevent the riot.<ref name="Furlong 2"> Furlong, 2011, p.2</ref>
+An independent review commissioned by the Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver released its 396-page report titled ''The Night the City Became a Stadium'' on August 31, 2011. This report labeled alcohol consumption as a primary cause of the riot. Additionally, the report concluded that the [[Vancouver Police Department]]'s reinforcements arrived too late to control the crowd, although because the crowd had 155,000 people, it would be impossible for any sized police force to prevent the riot.<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|p=2}}
 {{Blockquote
 |text=Vancouver tried to do a good thing and found itself in an almost impossible situation. There were too many people, not too few police. No plausible number of police could have prevented trouble igniting in the kind of congestion we saw on Vancouver streets that night.
-|title="The Night the City Became a Stadium"
+|title=''The Night the City Became a Stadium''<ref name="The Night the City Became a Stadium full citation"/>{{Rp|p=2}}
-|source=<ref name="Furlong 2"/>
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 During the riot, a photograph that depicted a young couple kissing while lying in the street during the riot, became an iconic image of the riots. This photograph, taken by Vancouver-based sports photographer Richard Lam, went viral on social media.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Anna|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13807494 |title=Vancouver riots: A kiss amid the chaos? |access-date=June 18, 2011|work=BBC News |date=June 17, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110618112519/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13807494| archive-date= June 18, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> ''Sports Illustrated'' called it "the most compelling sports image of the year".{{r|ballard20111226}} The photograph has been used worldwide in marketing campaigns,<ref name="10 years later the kiss">{{cite news |author1=Amy Judd |author2=Jawn Jang |title=10 years later: The Vancouver riot kissing couple is still together |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/7952563/vancouver-riot-kissing-couple-stanley-cup-update/ |access-date=10 February 2024 |publisher=Global News |date=15 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615222025/https://globalnews.ca/news/7952563/vancouver-riot-kissing-couple-stanley-cup-update/|archive-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> and is also used as the album cover of ''[[A Place for Us to Dream]]'', a 2016 compilation album by the English [[alternative rock]] band [[Placebo (band)|Placebo]].<ref name="Placebo Album">{{cite web |title=ALBUM ANNIVERSARY: PLACEBO – A PLACE FOR US TO DREAM |url=https://www.bellafiguramusic.com/2023/10/07/album-anniversary-placebo-a-place-for-us-to-dream/ |website=Bella Figura Music |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240210040800/https://www.bellafiguramusic.com/2023/10/07/album-anniversary-placebo-a-place-for-us-to-dream/ |archive-date=10 February 2024 |date=10 August 2023}}</ref>
+At first, many viewers suspected the scene had been staged. Lam pushed back on this suggestion: "What you don't see in the frame is that twenty feet beyond is the mounted [police] squad, on horseback. I don't think they were in any mood for people to be playing around setting something up like this."<ref name="BBC"/> The couple, who would be identified as Alexandra Thomas of Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Scott Jones of [[Perth]], Western Australia, claimed that they were knocked down by the police's riot shields.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1010521--woman-in-kissing-couple-photo-was-knocked-down-by-police?bn=1 |title=Woman in kissing couple photo was knocked down by police|first= Petti|last=Fong|work=thestar.com |date= June 17, 2011|access-date=June 18, 2011 |archive-date= 21 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621195937/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1010521--woman-in-kissing-couple-photo-was-knocked-down-by-police?bn=1|location=Toronto}}</ref> Video evidence posted on [[YouTube]] later backed up their claims.<ref name="Video Kissing Couple">{{cite news |last1=Mackey |first1=Robert |title=Overlooked Vancouver Video Shows 'Kissing Couple' Was Knocked Down by Riot Police |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/overlooked-vancouver-video-shows-kissing-couple-was-knocked-down-by-riot-police/ |access-date=10 February 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420054141/https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/overlooked-vancouver-video-shows-kissing-couple-was-knocked-down-by-riot-police/ |archive-date=20 April 2023}}</ref> In June 2016, it was reported that Thomas and Jones live in Perth, where they sleep under a poster copy of the photograph.<ref name="sorensen20160615">{{cite news | url=https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-girl-in-that-kissing-photo-on-the-2011-stanley-cup-riot/ | title=The girl in 'that kissing photo' on the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot | work=Maclean's | date=June 15, 2016 | access-date=November 10, 2018 | author=Sorensen, Chris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616155636/http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-girl-in-that-kissing-photo-on-the-2011-stanley-cup-riot/ |archive-date=16 June 2016}}</ref> As of 2021, the couple has remained together and are raising a family.<ref name="10 years later the kiss"/>
-At first, many viewers suspected the scene had been staged. Lam pushed back on this suggestion:
-"What you don't see in the frame is that 20ft beyond is the mounted [police] squad, on horseback. I don't think they were in any mood for people to be playing around setting something up like this."<ref name="BBC"/> The couple, who would be identified as Alexandra Thomas of Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Scott Jones of [[Perth]], Western Australia, claimed that they were knocked down by the police's riot shields.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1010521--woman-in-kissing-couple-photo-was-knocked-down-by-police?bn=1 |title=Woman in kissing couple photo was knocked down by police|first= Petti|last=Fong|work=thestar.com |date= June 17, 2011|access-date=June 18, 2011 |archive-date= 21 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621195937/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1010521--woman-in-kissing-couple-photo-was-knocked-down-by-police?bn=1|location=Toronto}}</ref> Video evidence posted on [[YouTube]] later backed up their claims.<ref name="Video Kissing Couple">{{cite news |last1=Mackey |first1=Robert |title=Overlooked Vancouver Video Shows 'Kissing Couple' Was Knocked Down by Riot Police |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/overlooked-vancouver-video-shows-kissing-couple-was-knocked-down-by-riot-police/ |access-date=10 February 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=24 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420054141/https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/overlooked-vancouver-video-shows-kissing-couple-was-knocked-down-by-riot-police/ |archive-date=20 April 2023}}</ref> In June 2016, it was reported that Thomas and Jones live in Perth, where they sleep under a poster copy of the photograph.<ref name="sorensen20160615">{{cite news | url=https://www.macleans.ca/society/the-girl-in-that-kissing-photo-on-the-2011-stanley-cup-riot/ | title=The girl in 'that kissing photo' on the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot | work=Maclean's | date=June 15, 2016 | access-date=November 10, 2018 | author=Sorensen, Chris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616155636/http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-girl-in-that-kissing-photo-on-the-2011-stanley-cup-riot/ |archive-date=16 June 2016}}</ref> As of 2021, the couple has remained together and are raising a family.<ref name="10 years later the kiss"/>
 ==See also ==
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 ==External links ==
 {{Commons category|2011 Stanley Cup riot}}
-*[http://vancouver.ca/police/2011riot/index.html Hockey Riot 2011] -  Vancouver Police Department
+* [http://vancouver.ca/police/2011riot/index.html Hockey Riot 2011] -  Vancouver Police Department
-*[http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1376/Vancouver-Riots-New-Life-to-Old-Law.aspx Vancouver Riots: New Life to Old Law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126143339/http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1376/Vancouver-Riots-New-Life-to-Old-Law.aspx |date=January 26, 2012 }}
+* [http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1376/Vancouver-Riots-New-Life-to-Old-Law.aspx Vancouver Riots: New Life to Old Law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126143339/http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1376/Vancouver-Riots-New-Life-to-Old-Law.aspx |date=January 26, 2012 }}
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