Vancouver police made seven arrests Friday morning when called to assist park board rangers trying to oust occupants of a tent city in Thornton Park at Terminal Avenue and Main Street. Vancouver police maintain only one of the seven people arrested at the tent city was in need of housing and the rest were "experienced protesters." "It's the city's excuse that we have to dismantle this tent city because there's violence and because it's unsafe. What we're saying is that it's unsafe to be homeless and it's less unsafe to be in a tent city than in an alley way." It's believed the Thornton Park tent city occupants came from a similar site at 58 West Hastings St., where, on Thursday, hours before a court-ordered injunction was to take effect, many of the campers marched to the new location outside of Pacific Central Station.

Source: CBC News November 26, 2016 00:36 UTC