Police were in a state of confusion and had lost control of the massive crowd hours before the start of Vancouver's Stanley Cup Game 7 loss, according to a report released Thursday reviewing the June 15 riot.

The report paints a frightening picture of a crowd ballooning out of control up to three hours before the puck dropped, with thousands of people unexpectedly packing the city's downtown, many of them already fuelled with alcohol.

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