dont know if people followed this..... near Victoria last week
"Police, including officers from the heavily armed Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team, were called to the Bank of Montreal branch on Shelbourne Street in Saanich around 11 a.m. Tuesday for reports of a bank robbery.
Officers encountered the two suspects as they were leaving the bank, and a shootout ensued.
The suspects were killed and six officers were injured. While police initially said they were investigating the possibility of a third suspect involved in the robbery attempt, Bérubé said Saturday that investigators now believe the Auchterlonie brothers were the only suspects in the bank.
After the initial exchange of gunfire, police found "improvised explosive devices" inside the suspects' vehicle,"
three cops in intensive care. two now out.
"An Instagram account belonging to one of the two gunmen killed in a shootout at a bank in Saanich, B.C., this week paints a picture of a young man who believed gun ownership was a necessary response to government "tyranny."
In one post that seems particularly troubling in retrospect, Auchterlonie shared clips from a documentary about the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, in which two heavily armed people robbed a bank and injured more than a dozen people during a 44-minute standoff with police.
The Auchterlonie brothers injured six police officers during their shootout this week. Three remained in hospital as of Thursday.
Auchterlonie's Instagram post about the North Hollywood incident was posted on the event's anniversary and captioned only with "24 years ago today" and some hashtags.
Another post on the account expressed opposition to COVID-19 vaccination and contrasted it with gun control legislation.
"When they try to give vaccine and they also try and take guns," the post read, followed by the hashtags #tryandtakeit and #getwhatyoudeserve, as well as one directing profanity at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.""
anyone who celebrates the two criminals in the North Hollywood shootout, is depraved. numerous people injured......It is the source of the uparming of police in murica, who were outgunned by the crazed criminals. wiki on it is interesting. called one of the biggest police criminal gun battles ever.
so these two losers had much in common with the freedom convoy crowd, and the politicians that support them.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/saanich-b-c-gunman-s-instagram-account-featured-rifles-anti-government-hashtags-1.5971975