Tag: DNC protesters

As of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, police have arrested a total of 135 people since Saturday according to most recent law enforcement reports, which also shed some light on the status of the more than 100 people arrested on Monday during a police standoff where pepper spray and mace were deployed.

During protest events at the Democratic National Convention this week a number of police have been spotted video taping participants, often refusing to identify themselves.

As I’ve made clear before I’m not a huge fan of the protesters here in Denver, but is it legal to surround them on all sides, hold them there, kick out the media, and then pepper spray everyone who’s left? Who couldn’t get out? The video available here on the Colorado Independent gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Read more of Jeff's commentaries: • Hickenlooper can throw one hell of a party • Thanks for turning my city into a fortress • 'Saturday Night Fever' at the DNC • C-SPAN tricks its ride • I love me some Police State’n, yeah!

Approximately 100 people were arrested in downtown Denver last night when a coalition of anarchist affinity groups and other activists attempted to march in the streets and were surrounded by hundreds of police in a standoff that lasted more than an hour. Police decked in riot gear shot pepper spray and pepper ball guns at activists, media and bystanders.

A calm political protest quickly turned chaotic as anxious Denver police surrounded protestors peacefully marching toward the Democratic National Convention Center. After trapping the crowd between two buildings, hundreds of officers used pepper spray, batons and unwarranted aggression. After being surrounded for 20 minutes, two American News Project producers managed to escape after recording the whole affair.

A reported 80-plus protesters were hauled away following a tense standoff in which riot police blocked in several hundred protesters in downtown Denver and sprayed pepperball into the crowd.

The 16^th Street Mall was the scene of megaphoned members of the “Official Street Preachers” railing against pro-choice candidates and homosexuality and urging Denver residents and visitors to repent.

A group planning to protest the rising price of fuel Monday with a parade through downtown Denver was foiled when its organizer couldn’t find transportation from New Jersey to the Mile-High city.

Three people were arrested just after 11 a.m. today for failure to obey a lawful order at the corner of 13th and Clarkson streets after they refused to put their cell phones down when ordered to do so by federal law officials, according to a representative from the Peoples' Law Project.

The Democratic National Convention has just started, and Colorado's small and intricate activist microcosm is determined to have its views heard despite months of civil rights litigation and unprecedented police efforts to compile weapons and intelligence — moves that are likely to leave a permanent mark on the state.