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Video shows riot 'kissing couple' mowed down by police

A video circulating the internet and found by The Tyee on Alternet shows the moments leading up to the famous photo of Scott Jones and Alexa Thomas, widely assumed to have been kissing in the picture amidst the June 15 melee in downtown Vancouver.

In fact the video shows the version of events related by the couple, as advancing police trample them underfoot and apparently hit them rather than helping them to their feet.

"They started beating us with the shields, like trying to get us to move," Jones told CBC News on June 17.

"We weren't being aggressive towards [police] 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," said Jones.

David Beers is editor of The Tyee.


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