Alex Thomas and Scott Jones remember being knocked down by the riot officers' shields, falling to the pavement on Seymour Street in Vancouver. It was June 2011, moments after the Canucks lost Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final on home ice to the Boston Bruins. The city was on fire.
Thomas remembers shaking with fear, as officers kicked them while they were on the ground in an effort to clear the street, until the police left to rejoin their formation as it moved to the next block.
Jones remembers looking down at Thomas, seeing that his girlfriend was "pretty hysterical" as they laid in the street, and knowing that he had to calm her down any way he could.