What?

The parade society, "which organizes the annual event, says its proposal was inspired by an open letter from a Vancouver chapter of Black Lives Matter."

What?

A single open letter from one local chapter of Black Lives Matter (hello?), and voila, the cops are suddenly treated like  a bunch of unwanted lepers, hog-tied, guilty-by-association, forced to wear sack cloth?

Why did the parade society not INSTEAD just tell the local chapter of Black Lives Mater to go suck an egg, to go take a rolling lunge at a rolling donut?

Sorry, Vancouver Pride Parade, but your entire parade is now a pile of garbage in my eyes, a display of feeble, kowtowing idiocy. Unless you reverse this decision regarding uniformed cops, my hope is that your parade fades quickly into unwelcome oblivion.

Seriously, it never occurred to you to just tell Black Lives Matter to go take a hike, that the goal of the Pride Parade is not to pretend that Vancouver's Police Force is the one that beat up Rodney King?