B.C. Premier John Horgan is encourage British Columbians to protest peacefully, ahead of a planned rally in Vancouver in solidarity with Americans over the death of George Floyd this Friday.
This comes as Nordstrom and other major Vancouver retailers board up storefronts over concerns of looting, after violence broke out during protests in a number of U.S.
cities. “I am absolutely hopeful any of the demonstrations that are supporting the issues of Black Lives Matter, and and other issues of racism in British Columbia and around the world, will be peaceful and focus on the issues at hand,” Horgan said. “If there are those that try to assert themselves in what has, by and large, been peaceful protest of course that is where we need to take