Police use pepper spray on 15th Street protesters

By Carrie Porter, Rocky Mountain News

Published August 25, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Updated August 25, 2008 at 8 p.m.

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People pass around markers to write the phone number for legal aid protection on their arms and legs Monday night.

Photo by JEFF KASS/THE ROCKY

Police form a line around a group of people near 15th Street and Court Place on Monday night.

Photo by Marie Griffin © The Rocky

Protesters are circled by swat teams on 15th street at 7:30p. on Aug. 25, 2008.

DOWNTOWN - Police armed with sticks and face masks encircled about 70 protesters and used pepper on 15th Street, about two blocks from the Civic Center.

Some in the protesters sang Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues".

The anarchists are wearing bandannas as protection from the pepper spray as helicopters and sirens can be heard. However, some protesters were searching for water to help those who were hit with spray.

Others pass around markers to write the phone number for legal aid protection on their arms and legs.

People hold their identification up, and try to find out whether or not they will be arrested.

• August 25, 2008

  8:07 p.m.

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  HopiMedicineMan writes:

  These protesters are pathetic. They're not even getting gassed. What a bunch of wimps, nothing like 1968. We're breeding altogether different protesters nowadays.

• August 25, 2008

  8:38 p.m.

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  broadwaybill writes:

  Chaos! What I really want to know is: HEY BARRACK! Did you send your left overs to your poor brother in Kenya today? You know, George! Your flesh and blood brother! Did he eat anything today? The brother you have abandoned and left to rot in a slum, in a 6x9 shack with nothing to live on...yeah you Barrack, the great Black hope of mankind!! What is up with deserting you kin? I bet you threw away more food than he gets in a month!! Change, is this the change you are offering, the elite eat and the rest scrounge...?

  Barrack Obama deserted his brother!! End of story!!

• August 25, 2008

  8:52 p.m.

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  Sensible writes:

  They may be protesting the pos DNC, but I garuntee you they are all Osmamamambaamamamamama voters.

• August 26, 2008

  1:16 a.m.

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  DNA writes:

  Here is a blog of DNC police photos, many from tonight

  http://dncpolice.blogspot.com/

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