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Protesters Chain Doors Of Police Station, Locking Officers Inside For 7 Hours
bluelivesmatter.blue ^ | July 10, 2020 | Sandy Malone

Posted on 07/12/2020 11:21:09 AM PDT by lowbridge

Aurora police officers were trapped inside the District 1 station house for hours July 3 night after protesters chained the doors shut and plotted to storm the building.

The incident occurred when protesters demonstrating at a memorial for 23-year-old Elijah McClain marched to the Aurora Police Department’s District 1 station house near Montview and Wheeling just after 8 p.m. on July 3, KDVR reported.

Protesters chained the doors of the police station shut from the outside, trapping officers inside.

Aurora police have refused to comment on how many officers were locked inside the building for approximately seven hours, KDVR reported.

“The unfortunate part is they trapped our officers inside, not just them being around the building, but physically wrapping ropes and other items around the doors of the district one station, around the entry exit gates our patrol cars come out of… that was probably the most dangerous part,” Aurora Police Department Spokesman Officer Matthew Longshore said.

Angry protesters barricaded the streets and vandalized the exterior of the police station, KDVR reported.

Police didn’t move in to clear out the protesters locking their fellow officers in the station until about 3:30 a.m. on July 4 when rioters began shooting fireworks at officers in the area.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; civilunrest; colorado; ola; oldnews; olf; oromoliberationarmy; oromoliberationfront; police
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To: lowbridge
We've stumbled onto the "Theater Of The Absurd." Cops have already refused to protect and defend the public (Seattle, Portland). Now they refuse to defend themselves?

Absolute nonsense.

41 posted on 07/12/2020 12:04:14 PM PDT by LouAvul (Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Psalms 9:20)
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To: lowbridge
when rioters began shooting fireworks at officers in the area

It's OK to besiege a police station, lock officers inside with no way out and destroy police property, but dadgummit when you violate the fireworks ban we gotta act!

And guess what? Crime in Aurora, as in Denver, is way, way up.

42 posted on 07/12/2020 12:05:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: lowbridge

Quite sure the roof was still accessible to police. Might have been protecting what was inside rather than trying to break out..?


43 posted on 07/12/2020 12:05:14 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: lowbridge; All

Theses blue lives matter assholes refer to these rioters as “protesters.” They ain’t gonna get much sympathy if they are too timid to call out the thugs, looters and rioters for what they are. More proof that most of the country is totally clueless.


44 posted on 07/12/2020 12:08:47 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: lowbridge

I call BS. There is NO WAY you could lock up, what?, 4, 5, 10, 12, burly, fit, intelligent men, having all the tools at their disposal that they’d need to break out, with some sticks, some rusty chains and bits of rope. They were probably glad they could fake being locked up so they wouldn’t have to go out and kill a bunch of idiots.


45 posted on 07/12/2020 12:10:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: usual suspect; All

No worries. The death will not be deemed terrible because the murder was just by an innocent protester.


46 posted on 07/12/2020 12:11:47 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: metmom

It is not usually the cops fault on the street - it is their feckless leadership that cannot make decisions. They are too timid for their own good.

This is ridiculous. Let the police do what they are paid to do without fear of prosecution and reprisal in all but the most egregious of acts. This anarchy will continue until people say enough and unshackle the police.

If you will not allow them to use force when necessary then what is their purpose?


47 posted on 07/12/2020 12:11:47 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: lowbridge

Next time, call 911.


48 posted on 07/12/2020 12:13:12 PM PDT by eens (beware the errors of Russia)
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To: LouAvul

If you defended yourself as a cop in these jurisdictions you would be arrested.

What part of this do people not understand? I don’t like the cops so it’s their fault even when they are NOT ALLOWED to do their job that requires force when necessary?


49 posted on 07/12/2020 12:13:48 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: usual suspect
When is it enough?

Why is it allowed to continue?

50 posted on 07/12/2020 12:14:21 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: lowbridge

and the police could think of no way to deal with their attackers?

either the town has the world’s stupidest cops (which I doubt) or else it has some dangerously-communist politicians running the show


51 posted on 07/12/2020 12:16:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ammomajor

Are there no cameras with someone monitoring the screen to see the crowd form and do this?


52 posted on 07/12/2020 12:18:26 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: lowbridge

Hardly anything more pathetic than an impotent police officer.


53 posted on 07/12/2020 12:18:40 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: lowbridge

Stop calling them “protesters”. They are thugs, insurrectionists, communist extremists, and traitors. Protesters aren’t violent.


54 posted on 07/12/2020 12:19:47 PM PDT by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: Grampa Dave

Keyword


55 posted on 07/12/2020 12:19:56 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Auroras Police chief:

You can pretty much bet that she is on the side of the 'protesters'.

56 posted on 07/12/2020 12:21:49 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: lowbridge

False imprisonment occurs when someone confines or detains another person against their will and without any legal justification......arrest these thugs, and sentence them with the full extent of the law!


57 posted on 07/12/2020 12:25:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: frank ballenger

Thanks for posting this:

Every day this question arises with threads:

Please tell us the name of the city and state (if it’s not France or somewhere as earlier today).

Thanks to all.


58 posted on 07/12/2020 12:25:14 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The virus is so easily spread why do they shove a Qtip up your nose and into your brain for a sample)
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To: lowbridge

The right thing to do is shoot to kill the ones locking them in. I’m betting the mayor ordered the cops not to shoot. And so, this will happen again.


59 posted on 07/12/2020 12:26:08 PM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: Mears

Thanks!


60 posted on 07/12/2020 12:26:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The virus is so easily spread why do they shove a Qtip up your nose and into your brain for a sample)
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