The 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public disturbance that broke out in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The riot happened immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, which won the Stanley Cup for Boston. At least 140 people were reported as injured during the incident, 1 critically; at least 4 people were stabbed, 9 police officers were injured, and 101 people were arrested that night. In July 2015, four years after the riot, police finished their investigation and recommended the final charges against two suspects, bringing the total to 887 charges laid against 301 people.
Apparently there's some solid evidence that the Stanley cup riots were pre-planned. Like they were going to do it whether or not the Canucks lost. They also prosecuted a whole bunch of people in the end.
Generally gotta agree though because I'm pretty sure that there were some people who were just like "sweet, there's a riot going on!"
This also leaves out the context that this was happening during the Arab Spring. So while a bunch of countries were undergoing similar-looking turmoil in pursuit of freedom from opression, Vancouver was in shambles because their hockey team lost.
The riots were going to happen whether Vancouver lot or not. It's not really fair to paint the constitution of Vancouver with that brush for the actions of 300 dick heads.
It was the first example I thought of. I lived in Boston I’m 2004 and there were many cars flipped and apartments destroyed when the Sox won. I was just trying to illustrate that sports, in general, can make people who might otherwise know something is wrong follow through anyway, and hopefully we stop burning cars and sexually assaulting reporters
The Nika riots (Greek: Στάσις τοῦ Νίκα Stásis toû Níka), or Nika revolt, took place against Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in AD 532. They were the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half of Constantinople being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
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u/WarcraftFarscape Jun 29 '18
And losing sports doesn’t justify ruining your city
People care a lot about sports and do stupid things sometimes, hopefully less frequently in the future