I bet Sullivan called in this tip, because everyone knows he wants to ship all the homeless out for the olympics so the international news agencies don't go wandering down to Downtown Eastside and Surrey looking for a 'story'.
Vancouver police search for stolen Olympic flag
ANCOUVER -- Police said Friday they were acting on a tip when they raided the office of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association looking for evidence in the theft of the Olympic flag from city hall.
But the association and the Anti-Poverty Committee said the raid was a bid to discredit social activists opposing the 2010 Winter Games.
"We consider what happened last night to be an all-out attack on this organization," said Kim Kerr, executive director of the association.
"It's an organization that's been down here a very, very long time, and whose championing of a cause for people are going to end up homeless or are already homeless is well known."
He said in the association's 34 years, it has never been subjected to a search warrant.
Sister Elizabeth Kelliher, chairwoman of the association's board, said she was shocked that the police chose to focus their energy on searching the association, when they should have been helping those in need.
"I have always, from childhood up, looked to the police department for protection, for making sure our society is a just one, that nobody was treated unfairly," she said.
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