Video Suggests Vancouver ‘Kissing Couple’ Actually Knocked Down By Riot Police

by Mark Joyella | 1:40 pm, June 24th, 2011

» 8 comments

So much for romance. A video broadcast on Canadian television Thursday shows the web-legendary “kissing couple” from the riots in Vancouver a week ago were actually knocked to the ground by riot police just before the photo was taken, thereby squeezing the last bit of mystery out of the stunning photo that seemed at first to show an oblivious man and woman in a passionate embrace as the city went to Hell all around them (and all over hockey, no less). Well, so much for that. Thanks a lot, internet.

As The New York Times‘ Robert Mackey reports, the just-aired video was shot from an overhead position by Chris Wing and posted to his YouTube account. The video shows the couple knocked to the ground by police, followed by the man, Scott Jones, comforting the woman, Alexandra Thomas.

And to further kill the romance, Wing tells the Times Thomas and Jones “were participants in the riot” and “likely should have been arrested.”

Watch it here, from YouTube:

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Just4thefax

Fact: She was hurt so he sucked the pain off her lips to make her feel better.
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http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Knocked down? It’s not really clear before and after the pan, but he way they’re holding their hands up as a shield, you have to wonder whether the cops were helping or if they’re responsible for the injuries to her face.
Nacho

Magister said:
Magister

You need to watch at again, the pigs did knock them down and they were definitely not helping.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

@Nacho: My “knocked down? was meant to imply that it looks like an understatement. Thanks.
Nacho

Got it, and thank you.
Greg

I reserve the right to remember it differently in this case… A minor offense for the age.
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