Vancouver kiss couple 'were knocked down by riot police'

Source: guardian.co.uk



At first glance the picture, snapped during Vancouver's hockey riots, seemed to show a young couple lying on the road and kissing, oblivious to the chaos around them. Now it appears that the real force behind the arresting image was not romance, but a charge by riot police who knocked Scott Jones and his girlfriend, Alex Thomas, to the ground.

The picture taken by Canadian photographer Richard Lam became a global sensation – appearing in the media, shared on Facebook and tweeted around the world – and looked set to take its place as one of the world's most iconic kiss photographs.

"How's that for making love, not war," astonished dad Brett Jones declared on his Facebook page, announcing that his son, Scott, was the Romeo depicted in the picture.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/vancouver-kiss-couple-riot-police

not seeing any word about how she is.

The police at work, God help us.

imagine a boot stamping on a human face- forever" O'Brien in 1984

:rofl:

You want to know a real image of the future? YOU WON'T SEE IT! It won't be broadcast because the people who own the networks are too busy with riots outside sports venues.

They could have put the street sweepers in and let them start spraying water and cleaning the streets and the crowd would have dispersed on it's own ... they didn't have to herd them like cattle and treat them like animals ... security has too much power in situations like this ... they hung those huge screens up and invited these kids to a street party only to do this? ... unacceptable abuse of power ....

I posted a video of that yesterday...

Tender Mercy.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/5164306/Vancouver-riot-kiss-was-to-calm-girlfriend

''They started beating us with the shields, like trying to get us to move,” Jones told CBC News in an exclusive television interview.

''We weren’t being aggressive towards or anything like that. But eventually they passed over us. And that’s when we were on the ground. She was a bit hysterical afterwards, obviously, and I was just trying to calm her down,” the 29-year-old Jones, who has been in Canada for six months, said.