{"id":37786,"date":"2021-02-08T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=37786"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:34:51","slug":"tent-city-standoff-over-vancouver-police-homicide-warrant-hints-at-mistrust-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/tent-city-standoff-over-vancouver-police-homicide-warrant-hints-at-mistrust-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tent city standoff over Vancouver police homicide warrant hints at mistrust: reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nA dramatic Vancouver police raid at Strathcona Park Tent City last week led to a tense standoff between homeless camp residents with drums and shouting \u2013 but it turned out the police were to to arrest a murder suspect in a shocking seniors\u2019 home invasion death. <\/p>\n<p>The Tyee\u2019s Downtown Eastside reporter Jen St Denis discusses the disturbing case and aftermath, as well as what it might say about homeless community trust in the police. <\/p>\n<p>The man arrested in the Tent city raid once described himself as the \u201cmayor\u201d of the tent city\u2019s predecessor at Oppenheimer Park. <\/p>\n<p>Homeowner groups in Vancouver are jumping on the arrest this week as a sign of the tent city\u2019s \u201cdangerous\u201d elements, but tent city organizers continue to press for social housing and services. <\/p>\n<p>St Denis discusses the city and province\u2019s housing promises for campers, and why a plan is taking so long as another cold snap arrives. <\/p>\n<p>And she reveals her meeting with former VPD officer Dave Dickson and why he is outraged by some police behaviours in the DTES, where he continues to hold community respect and relationships. <\/p>\n<p>He spoke out against police abuses as exemplified by incidents such as the alleged seizure of a homeless man\u2019s wheelchair and walkers which the owner with a disability never got back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball &#8212; A dramatic Vancouver police raid at Strathcona Park Tent City last week led to a tense standoff between homeless camp residents with drums and shouting \u2013 but it turned out the police were to to arrest a murder suspect in a shocking seniors\u2019 home invasion death. The Tyee\u2019s Downtown Eastside&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":37788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3265],"tags":[599,987,5848,852],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=37786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}