Scott Jones says he was just trying to calm his girlfriend down after they both had been hit by Vancouver police when the now-famous photos of them lying in the street and kissing was taken in the midst of Wednesday night\u2019s riot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey started beating us with the shields, like trying to get us to move,\u201d Jones told CBC News in an exclusive television interview Friday.<\/p>\n
View video of CBC’s exclusive interview here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t being aggressive towards police or anything like that. But eventually they passed over us. And that\u2019s when we were on the ground. She was a bit hysterical afterwards, obviously, and I was just trying to calm her down,\u201d said Jones, 29, an Australian who\u2019s been in Canada for six months.<\/p>\n
Alex Thomas said she wasn\u2019t sure how she fell, although a witness has told CBCNews.ca that the Canadian woman was hit first by rioters and then pushed over by riot police trying to clear the street after rampant vandalism and looting spread through the downtown streets following the Vancouver Canucks’ Game -7 Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n
\u201cTripped up? I\u2019m not sure. I was starting to get really frightened because I\u2019d never experienced anything like that before, and it\u2019s really scary,\u201d Thomas told CBC News. \u201cI was upset, and I fell down, and didn\u2019t really know exactly what was happening.”<\/p>\n
Jones said they had been trying to get out of the downtown area but found themselves on a street filled with police in riot gear.
Photos gone viral<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were literally charging at us and we tried to run away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Neither Thomas nor Jones blames the police for what happened, but understand they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police were doing their job,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n
Jones has been working as a bartender and trying to break into acting and standup comedy. At least one of his comedy routines has been posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Following the Canucks’ loss to the Boston Bruins, images of the kissing couple surrounded by riot police were splashed around the world.<\/p>\n
On Twitter, Facebook and other social media, there was early speculation that the picture was staged. CBC.ca immediately launched a search to uncover the identity of the two.<\/p>\n
Hannah Jones, Scott’s sister from Perth, told CBC News earlier Friday in an email that the man in the pictures is her brother, and he recently started dating Thomas, a former student at the University of Guelph in Ontario.<\/p>\n
The two are overwhelmed by all the coverage the picture has gotten, she said, fielding calls from media around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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