02-16-2012, 10:50 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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Vancouver 2011 Riot - first conviction
it's nice to see the justice system finally getting to this....
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The rioters who participated in the chaos that swept through downtown Vancouver after the Stanley Cup final last year should be punished not just for their own actions, but for the destruction wrought by the entire mob, a judge ruled Thursday as he sentenced the first person convicted in the riot to 17 months in jail.
Ryan Dickinson, 20, admitted to trashing an unnmarked police car and vandalzing a clothing store, but he claimed he was merely "caught up in the moment" and argued his crimes weren't as serious as other rioters who were on the streets that night.
But provincial court Judge Malcolm MacLean rejected that argument, concluding that even though Dickinson didn't assault anyone, set fires or loot stores, his actions nonetheless encouraged others to do so.
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full story here: http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/7112...gets-17-months
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