CTV did a hatchet job tonight on the cannabis market at Robson Square. The spot shows the vendors exercising their legal right to detain someone that they caught stealing red-handed. A big shout out to the brave men and women down there who deployed a measured response to overt criminal activity. A big boo to the VPD officer who said that the market was a "priority" for the VPD. Selling flowers in public is a priority? People manning up and enforcing the common law against theft is something to be lauded. "The words ‘in a judicial proceeding’ are used to distinguish an action from matters we pursue not in a court but outside it, as when we pursue a thief who steals by night or by day, a robber or another, where it will be permissible for each to do right for himself without legal proceedings, with this exception, that if such are taken alive, life, death and member belong to the king" http://bracton.law.harvard.edu/Unframed/English/v2/282.htm And to any VPD thinking about stealing from the Market: they know their rights. If you try to steal from them, they may arrest you.