Police van's radio draws lively crowd
Ryan Sabalow, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 28, 2008 at 8:45 p.m.
Updated August 28, 2008 at 8:45 p.m.
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West Colfax Avenue — A police van parked on West Colfax Avenue drew a lively crowd of Barack Obama supporters thanks to the officers' radio.
The van pulled up during the speech, parked and the officers turned on its radio, getting a few good-natured cheers from those assembled on the overpass watching the candidate's speech on the stadium's jumbo TV.
A group of about three dozen people quickly congregated around it, and began cheering every time Obama made a point.
Slightly surreal was the delay from the broadcast. The assembled group's cheers were a few seconds behind those from the stadium, a quarter mile away.
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