Protesters caught in barricade on Court and 15th
By Ryan Sabalow, The Rocky Mountain News
Published August 25, 2008 at 7:27 p.m.
Updated August 25, 2008 at 8:02 p.m.
Danny DeBelius © The Rocky
Police surround protesters outside the Wellington Webb building at the corner of 15th and Cleveland on Monday night.
Photo by Danny DeBelius © The Rocky
Police surround protesters outside the Wellington Webb building at the corner of 15th and Cleveland on Monday night.
Photo by Danny DeBelius © The Rocky
Police surround protesters outside the Wellington Webb building at the corner of 15th and Cleveland on Monday night.
DOWNTOWN — About 50 protesters, many of them wearing bandannas over their faces, were corralled tonight between two lines of police officers in riot gear near the intersection of Court Place and 15th Street.
Officers holding batons and wearing gas masks held firm in not letting anyone but the media through the box-line barricade of batons.
The protesters chanted and yelled obscenities at the officers, many of them pointed rifle-like weapons at the boxed-in crowd.
A nearby crowd began to loudly chant, "Let them go," just before 7:30 p.m.
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August 25, 2008
8:05 p.m.
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EZBakeOven writes:
"The protesters chanted and yelled obscenities at the officers, many of them pointed rifle-like weapons at the boxed-in crowd."
The "rifle-like weapons" were most likely non-lethal pepperball guns, hence the necessity of the gas masks. Jeez, don't make it sound like the Berlin friggin' wall.
August 25, 2008
8:23 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
EZ,
I'm with you. This is nothing like 1968. I've never seen so many pathetic protesters. Are we going to have to hire illegals to do this work too?
August 25, 2008
9 p.m.
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nouse4u2 writes:
recreate 68- its more like 1668 when the plains were populated by sparse bands of Indians