EDMONTON JOURNAL
On June 10, 2006, the Edmonton Oilers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 at Rexall Place, the first Oilers win in three games during the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
That night, Edmonton police made 198 arrests, mostly on Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue. Seven people were charged.
The following timeline is drawn from police officers’ notes on mass arrest field reports for 192 Whyte Avenue revellers taken into custody that night:
8:30 p.m. A 47-year-old man was arrested for “climbing in garbage cans, banging (and) jaywalking.”
9:05 p.m. A 22-year-old man was seen jumping onto a newspaper box and rocking it back and forth. He was kept in custody for four hours and 45 minutes.
9:30 p.m. Police were arresting two people when a 21-year-old man walked by and screamed, “Ah, f— you guys, leave them alone!” When they took him into custody, officers noted he interfered with arrests.
9:30 p.m. A 28-year-old British Columbia man suffered a cut to his head and a swollen eye after one police officer slapped him in the face and a second took him to the ground in a parkade. The man, who police described as “belligerent,” was handcuffed when he tried to spit at an officer.
10:05 p.m. Flexing his muscles repeatedly led to a 32-year-old man’s arrest. Police said the man was kicked out of a Whyte Avenue bar because he would not put his shirt back on. According to police, the man, “had shirt off in front of Hudson’s, was flexing, not listening to verbal direction. Had to be sprayed.” The man was not seen by paramedics. He spent about six hours in police custody.
10:25 p.m. A police detective emptied a 25-year-old woman’s can of Coors Light on the street but did not arrest her. She walked six feet away, then pulled her pants down and mooned him. She was arrested, in part, for inciting a crowd.
10:30 p.m. A man wearing a blue hardhat was “aggressively” walking down the street and pushed someone else. Police believed the 23-year-old was trying to start a fight. He spent five hours and 15 minutes in custody.
10:35 p.m. A 19-year-old man was so intoxicated he slept through his arrest. He was sitting in a bus stop at 106th Street and 82nd Avenue with his pants at his ankles and passed out. Officers carried him to the holding centre.
11:05 p.m. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody for shaking a tree.
11:15 p.m. A police officer approached a 23-year-old woman who was carrying a glass of wine down the street. She threw the glass in his face. After he locked her wrists, police say she continued to resist arrest and spat at him.
12:00 a.m. A 17-year-old boy was “standing, being belligerent,” when he asked a police officer what his name was. He was arrested for being drunk in public.
12:25 a.m. A 24-year-old man “threw (a) donair at (a constable) — when questioned about (the) incident, (he) denied it then was too intoxicated to answer questions.”
1:59 a.m. A 25-year-old man was accused of inciting a crowd when he said to others on the sidewalk, “F—ing cops, talking to girls, wasting our tax dollars.” The man spent nearly two hours in police custody.
2:30 a.m. After calling a police officer “princess,” a man whose age was not recorded was arrested for public intoxication. He spent three hours in custody.
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