Instead of soothing hurt feelings...

Maybe they should be focusing on throwing some mad-dog gangbanger ass in jail...

"We have our specialty members, like in our gang crime unit and in our criminal investigations section, who are very much focused on doing what they can to reduce tensions out there," he said.

Just a suggestion.

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UPDATE: Police refusing to release any details

But the word on the street says this is inter-racial gang warfare.

Witnesses say there was an earlier fight at the same restaurant between a group of Asians and a gang of Indo-Canadians calling themselves the Independent Soldiers.

The truth is, for some time now, the cops have seen it coming.

The RCMP's annual report on organized crime this year ranks the Indo-Canadian groups third after outlaw bikers and Asians in terms of their strength and organization in B.C.'s hierarchy of criminal organizations.

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