Not so secret a police state any longer.
So we can surmise that the Denver police department was just following the orders of the Denver city council. Fortunately none of the protestors were arrested. Yet.
Protesters at the Denver airport over the weekend were told by police that it was illegal to exercise “free speech without a permit.”
Denverite reported that over 200 people gathered at the Denver International Airport on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries. In video posted to YouTube, Police Commander Tony Lopez can be seen advising demonstrators that they are in violation of the law.
“Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permit” ... Lopez warns in the video, which lacks context, that even carrying a copy of the U.S. Constitution was prohibited in the airport.
“I cannot carry the Constitution without a permit?” one protester asks.
“Correct,” the officer replies.
Protestors are being handed these pieces of paper. Organizers tell crowd to take down signs, and not to sing or police will step in #KDVR pic.twitter.com/5HDM9RpmrV— Emily Allen FOX31 (@EmilyAReports) January 29, 2017
So we can surmise that the Denver police department was just following the orders of the Denver city council. Fortunately none of the protestors were arrested. Yet.
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Not the first time for something like this. Think about the 2008 DNC in Denver. (I was there the day before it started.)
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