Wake Up Call: Vancouver rioter receives fist of justice (video)

The guy you see here delivering the punch to the cowardly rioter is Bert Easterbrook, a 32-year-old photographer, karate expert and bouncer. He’s also the grandson of a Vancouver cop, so when he saw hooligans trying to tip over a truck and set it on fire during Thursday’s Vancouver Loutapolooza, he and two others waded into the crowd and tried to prevent the destruction.

As you’ll see in the video below, the crowd turned on him and began beating and punching him, until police stepped in and pulled him to safety. Although sporting a few bruises and cuts, he’s OK, because he’s made of tougher stuff than the orcs who attacked him. One site, PublicShamingEternus, is calling him Captain Vancouver. It fits.

Caution: Bad language throughout.

But you may be surprised at one of Easterbrook’s part-time jobs. From The Province:

Easterbrook’s long-time friend, pot activist Jodie Emery, says the hulking photographer displayed the qualities that make him ideal as a security guard during marijuana rallies. “He’s really tough, but he’s really, really gentle,” Emery says. “He’s a super soft-spoken sweetheart. He can’t stand disrespect, and violence is not his thing.”

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ABOUT LAST NIGHT

News paragraph of the day so far: Officer First Class Robert Pierce knocked on the door of the apartment, and Charles Akin Rempe, 52, opened the door and told Pierce that he had been hiding in the closet for several hours and that he had a fish hook embedded in his buttocks. …

• In case you’ve forgotten, Saturday night is World Naked Bike Ride in Portland. If you’re participating, tighten those chains!

• In Soviet Russia, police taser soccer players!

• And now, a very ironic golf ad featuring Tiger Woods from 1997.

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TODAY IN MARK TRAIL …

“Hmm, ‘ACME Rocket Skates’? ‘ACME Jet Pack’? I think I’ve found that coyote’s den.”