(13 Feb 2010)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Pan of line of police blocking protest marchers
2. Riot police on horses
3. Masked protesters
4. Riot police on horses
5. Police pushing protesters back, shouting (English): "move back"
6. Protesters holding flags
7. Line of police pushing protesters back, protesters resisting, police shouting (English): "move back, move back"
8. Close up of police pushing protesters back
9. High shot of police trying to move back protesters
10. Hooded protester appears to be sprayed in face with pepper spray
11. UPSOUND (English) protesters chanting:
"Whose streets? Our streets!"
12. Wide of protest near Olympic stadium
++QUALITY AS INCOMING ++
13. Wide pan of demonstration against the Winter Olympics in Robson Square
14. Mid of protesters, some dressed in black clothes and masks, waving black flags
15. Wide pan of demonstration
16. Wide of demonstrators, including environmental organisations, aboriginal rights groups, socialist and anarchist groups
17. Close of protester holding anti-Olympic winter games placard
18. Various of demonstrators
19. Various of band playing
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew, protester, no surname given:
"I''m here because the games have taken too much money and turned it into nothing."
21. Woman holding placard reading "Go Canada! Relieve our municipal debt"
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Liz Winston, protestor:
"Really I would have rather not been forced to pay for the Olympics because I feel there''s a distance between who''s profiting and who is paying for the Olympics."
23. Protester speaking to crowd through megaphone
24. Wide of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Several thousand protesters staged an anti-Olympics, "Take Back Our Streets" rally, marching to the stadium where the opening ceremony for Vancouver''s 2010 Winter Olympic Games was being held.
Hundreds of police were there waiting for them, halting their progress across the street from BC Place Stadium.
The standoff lasted more than two hours - until nearly the end of the parade of nations - with some sticks, barricades and water bottles being thrown toward the officers.
Police responded with some pushing and shoving to move the protesters back.
Earlier, the protest had been peaceful as groups ranging from environmental organisations, aboriginal rights groups, socialist and anarchists gathered in Robson Square, holding placards with slogans including "Go Canada! Relieve our municipal debt."
Anti-games protesters had forced the Olympic torch relay to change course as the flame entered a troubled Vancouver neighbourhood.
About 150 protesters gathered in the Downtown Eastside area amid hundreds of Olympic fans waiting for a glimpse of the flame.
A dozen mounted police stopped the placard-carrying protesters from surging ahead and confronting the relay.
The protesters chanted slogans such as: "No Olympics on stolen native land" and "No justice, no peace for people on the streets"
The torch convoy quickly changed its route and continued.
In other parts of the city, the crowds cheered, applauded and waved Canadian flags as the torch, surrounded by police and security personnel, was carried through the centre of the host city.
Thousands of people lined the streets to watch the 106th and last day of the Olympic Torch relay.
Earlier in the day, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger carried the flame in the city''s Stanley Park.
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