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Four people living at an east Vancouver homeless encampment gathered around a table outside their tent — the encampment’s unofficial community kitchen, resident Rae Mackmer reported — during a cleanup event Thursday morning.
Officer Tyler Chavers of the Vancouver Police Department approached the group and immediately became the butt of the joke.
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