Eleven individuals had been arrested in downtown Denver throughout a wave of secondary marches after the afternoon’s principal “No Kings” protest disbanded, police stated.
A gaggle of protesters marching west on Sixth Avenue via visitors at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday tried to entry Interstate 25 close to Santa Fe Drive, a spokesperson for the Denver Police Division stated in an electronic mail to JHB.
Denver officers made a number of loudspeaker bulletins declaring the march an illegal meeting and ordering the group to disperse, the spokesperson stated.
After an unspecified period of time, officers deployed smoke to scatter the group and arrested three individuals on suspicion of unreleased expenses, based on the division. Officers denied utilizing different means to disperse protesters, together with firing pepper balls.
One other eight protesters had been arrested throughout different secondary marches, police stated. One individual was arrested throughout the primary “No Kings” occasion earlier that day for possession of a knife.
Police stated Sunday that the 12 protesters arrested Saturday had been nonetheless being processed. The arrestees’ suspected offenses embody assault, assault on a peace officer, graffiti and “different municipal offenses.”
It’s unclear how many individuals had been arrested in every class. Not one of the arrestees had been publicly recognized as of Sunday.
The dozen individuals arrested had been a fraction of the hundreds estimated to have marched via Denver on Saturday in protest of the insurance policies and actions of President Donald Trump and his administration.
An unknown variety of protesters marched in additional than 50 cities and cities throughout Colorado, rallying in opposition to Trump’s deployment of federal brokers and army forces into U.S. cities, focusing on of immigrant households and threats to the nation’s integral democratic techniques.
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