This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedant.
In June 20 eleven, the Stanley cup finals were underway in Vancouver.
The city's beloved home hockey team, the Canucks, were playing against the Boston Bruins.
It was game seven.
The team that won would take home.
The cup, return the cup to Canada, or add to.
In the last seconds of the game, Tim Thomas of the Bruins defended the goal and secured the championship for Boston.
For the first time in 39 years, the Boston Bruins have won the Stanley cup.
Meanwhile, crowds began forming outside of the stadium in downtown Vancouver.
They were upset.
Just a few blocks from the stadium, fans decked out in Canucks jerseys began destroying the city.
They smashed windows and looted local businesses.
Cars were overturned and set on fire.
Jim Choo was police chief at the time.
He was working crowd control just blocks away from the center of the chaos that day.
Ten years later, he reflected on what happened that evening.
It's hard to explain what happens when people get into a crowd mentality.
And some of these riders told us.
I got caught up in the moment.