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Video Evidence: Vancouver Police

London Riots Dept: With no charges laid despite thousands of photos, hours of video evidence and swift convictions in the U.K. following the London riots in August police went on the defensive, blaming overworked investigators and red tape for the sluggish pace of the investigation, according to The Star. If someone wants to go over that line of civility and commit carnage and mayhem the courts have spoken if you do that you will be facing serious consequences, Police Chief Jim Chu said. The whole community has come together and said this is very bad behaviour and vANCOUVER It was two months after the Stanley Cup riot that public anger spread from the hundreds who caused the mayhem to the Vancouver police. Now eight months after storefront windows were smashed, cars were burned and shops were looted, the first rioter has finally been sentenced. On Thursday, Ryan Dickinson, 20, who pleaded guilty to throwing a road barricade, a newspaper box and a mannequin through a storefront window, was sentenced to 17 months in jail. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.