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What was the riot's precipitating event or cause?
The ostensible precipitating event for the riot was the Vancouver Canucks’ impending loss to the Boston Bruins in the final game of the Stanley Cup finals. The riot began before the game had concluded, once it became clear the Canucks would lose (1). This riot was not entirely unprecedented; a similar riot occurred in 1994 when the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers, though to a smaller scale than the 2011 riot (2). For example, it is estimated that the 1994 rioters numbered between 40,000 and 70,000, while as many as an estimated 155,000 people were present in the riot area in 2011 (3); a key caveat is that it is unclear how many of the 155,000 number were involved in rioting, vandalism, and looting, and how many were bystanders who were actively spectating the riot, encouraging rioters, or were inadvertently unable to leave the area; a similar caveat presumably applies in the 1994 case.
However, somewhat counterintuitively, the proportions of active rioters and bystanders in the crowd were less pertinent to management of the situation than was the total number—155,000—present in the area. The size of the crowd is the critical factor cited by the Independent Review, commissioned by the BC Government, as determinative of the inability to either stop the riot in its tracks as it started or to quickly manage the...
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