Lots of people at Colfax and Pearl. Been a little bit since I’ve seen any tear gas. Some people in the intersection seem to have dragged a dumpster there, and they’re crouched behind it.
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Window smashed right by the 7-11, or maybe at the 7-11. Then bang, bang, bang. People scatter south into Cap Hill, others stick around Colfax.
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People scream and scatter and all you can see on Colfax is gas, and then this police vehicle emerges.
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There are a lot of people out here. This isn’t just a few pockets of people who decided to hang after curfew and start shit. It’s hundreds. Mostly they look young. And it’s chaotic. Just a rolling scene throughout Cap Hill, with cops moving people around with gas.
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Giant crowd at 14th and Grant, chanting FTP as the same police warning about curfew blares over megaphone for the millionth time. They’re now marching down 14th.
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Back at the Capitol. Easily 1000+ still out here. That may be way understating it. It’s a lot. Cops keep blaring the warning over loudspeaker to a crowd that clearly isn’t gonna comply.
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Now going south on Broadway. Just heard glass breaking at the Supreme Court.
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And now on 13th, going west. More cohesive crowd than I’ve seen on other nights.
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Crowd stops outside DPD HQ. Officers (these in the photo and many others) here waiting for them.
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My phone is on low battery so I’ll be tweeting less often now to conserve.
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That was definitely the most violent single moment I’ve covered over these four days. Major show of force by cops outside Denver PD headquarters. People scrambled. I got hit several times with what I think are foam bullets. One in leg, one on my side, one at my head. I’m fine.
Lots of people back at the Capitol. And tear gas. I had wondered where everyone went after scattering from PD HQ. Here, I guess. Lots of bangs and gas, more scattering.
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A cop just shouted at and me to walk in other direction — toward an epic amount of tear gas. We shouted “press!” and Esteban is even wearing a neon press vest. Cop points weapon right at us. We were forced back into the chaos and we both took a ton of gas to the face.
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The show of force from police over the last hour in Denver has been way above and beyond anything else I’ve seen since all this started four days ago. In fact it’s beyond anything I’ve seen from police in my life.
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And to those who are asking, I am fine. Just have some welts and red eyes.
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Just drove a couple big laps around the Capitol and through Cap Hill. Saw a couple dumpster fires but otherwise pretty quiet. I didn’t see many protesters. There are still cops everywhere. And “cops” doesn’t really do it justice — SWAT trucks, tons of them. Debris all over.
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Alex - your reporting is a lifeline on all local news. Thank you for your brave reporting during this time
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