In the video posted to Instagram and Reddit, the man is then seen standing in front of the vehicle near Oppenheimer Park and blocking it when the light turns green. “Get off the road,” the driver can be heard saying. “I have to go to work”. The man wasn’t moving. The driver insisted she posted the video not to shame the man, but to encourage others to lock their car doors. “We don’t know what condition the people who cross our path will find themselves in,” he wrote. Vancouver Police Department spokesman Sgt. Steve Addison doesn’t think the incident from late August has been reported yet, but he has reviewed the video. “Somebody gets to their car, starts trying door handles, stands on the front of their car, puts their hand in the car, that’s going to be scary for some people,” he said. “These are things we’re seeing more and more, not only in the downtown Eastside, but elsewhere in the city.” In fact, Addison can relate, as he had an experience of his own that he also describes as “disgusting.” While driving to work in his personal vehicle and not in uniform, he and other drivers were confronted and yelled at by a stranger. They were also stopped at an intersection in the Downtown Eastside. Addison has been a police officer for 16 years and said he was exonerated. “What I did was look for an exit strategy,” he recalls. “I’m off duty, I’m in my personal car, I’m not prepared for this.” The woman who posted the video, which was taken near Oppenheimer Park, was able to walk away when the man was distracted.
