Drug users disrupt Vancouver council meeting
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | 5:51 PM PT
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VANDU members shouted down Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson at city hall Tuesday. (CBC)Dozens of drug users disrupted a Vancouver council meeting by shouting down Mayor Gregor Robertson at city hall Tuesday.
The group, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, stopped when several councillors agreed to speak with them outside the council chambers.
For months, the group had been claiming that Vancouver police were targeting their Downtown Eastside neighbourhood by ticketing them for such offences as jaywalking and illegal vending.
VANDU member Hugh Lampkin asked why.
"Now obviously they targeted people in the Downtown Eastside, and people in the Downtown Eastside are marginalized people, people with addiction, mental problems, homelessness," said Lampkin.
"So our question is, why are you targeting our area when Davie Street, Granville Street and Commercial Drive? They have just as much or more jaywalkers and the same sort of thing going on."
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