Headlines from Vancouver and beyond for June 22 2011:

Police Chief Jim Chu is on the offensive following a slew of negative press over his department’s preparation and handling of the Vancouver riots. In an internal email he encouraged staff to make public, Chu claimed that one of his most outspoken critics, Bob Whitelaw, overstated his role in the recommendations report following the 1994 riots. Whitelaw, widely quoted in media, accused the department of ignoring the recommendations of the report. See: ad hominem attack.

Constable Geoff Mantler, the Kelowna Mountie captured on video kicking an innocent man in the face has entered a plea of not guilty in another, unrelated, assault charge.

The debate over the use of online shaming sites and internet vigilantism in pursuing those caught on video or in pictures at the Vancouver riot heats up. A number of businesses whose employees have been identified are facing a public backlash.

A Bangladeshi Fulbright scholar, completing her master’s at UBC, was apparently blinded by her husband during a short return to Bangladesh to visit her daughter. Friends say Rumana Manzur’s husband gouged her eyes out to prevent her continuing her education.

And from the Georgia Straight: Hey, riot vigilantes, you’re not making the city look any better.

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