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Vancouver’s Kissing Couple :Turned on by Tear Gas?

VANCOUVER — It was a tender and intimate moment caught on camera, but for Alexandra Thomas and Scott Jones, the only thing they felt was terror and fear for their safety.

Speaking to the Toronto Star, Thomas and Jones, the kissing couple who were photographed in between police lines at the Vancouver riot, described a very different scenario than what people saw.

“We were struck by police shields, pushed to the ground and I was just very, very frightened,” said Thomas. “Everything happened so fast, faster than we could ever imagine it could happen.”

Jones and his girlfriend had been watching the game at a friend’s house downtown when they first heard there was a disruption. They decided to go see what was happening.

“We wanted to go down and see for ourselves but it was crazy,” said Jones, an Australian native living in Vancouver. “We didn’t know where we were supposed to go. We wanted to get out of there and we ended up in the line of police marching forward.”