content: Cost of 2015 Hockey Riots: 5 million dollars; 0 people killed Cost of 1992 LA Riots: 1 billion, (or a THOUSAND million dollars); 53 people killed The Hockey Riots were in Canada, which arguably is more like Europe in terms of propensity for Sport's Hooligan Riots. I'm not excusing them, but comparing them to the LA Riots is apples and oranges. I don't think the same word should be used to describe both of them. If LA was a "riot", Vancouver was an "incident" at best.