News happens

Sometimes news happens where you least expect it.

While I was returning home tonight from a meeting on social justice issues, the pop-pop-pop-pop of pistol fire resounded in what I initially took for fireworks. It was 10:07pm. Justice of a sort different from what I had been discussing earlier in the evening was playing out just around the corner from my place.

Vancouver Police Constable Howard Chow explained to assembled media that officers had responded to several calls regarding an assault in progress. When they arrived at the scene they were attacked by a chain-wielding assailant who lashed one officer upside the head and another in the face. A third officer shot the assailant down in the middle of the street. Two other men involved in the initial assault apparently fled.

Chances are you'll be able to read more at local news sites, including CBC Vancouver.