Posted on 03/07/2021 5:55:14 AM PST by real saxophonist
Boulder Police: CU partygoers assault officers, damage property
by: Colleen Flynn
Mar 7, 2021
Updated: BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — Boulder police said partiers at a massive CU street party Saturday night assaulted three officers with bricks and rocks and caused significant property damage.
Police spokesperson Dionne Waugh said detectives are reviewing a large amount of video evidence of the incidents with the goal “to charge and identify” individuals involved in the destruction.
One armored police vehicle sustained “heavy damage,” as did a fire truck, Waugh said.
In a statement released on Twitter, Boulder Police Chief Maris said detectives will “identify and arrest those responsible for this reprehensible and unacceptable behavior” and encouraged anyone with information to send it to police.
The owner of the car damaged on the street hopes the people who did it get in trouble. She watched them from a window upstairs from where she parked it.
WARNING: FOUL LANGUAGE CAN BE HEARD IN VIDEO.
Video posted on Twitter from a Daily Camera reporter showed a massive crowd setting off fireworks. Another shows the crowd yelling and screaming at a Boulder fire truck driving through the area.
The University of Colorado sent this statement to FOX31:
We are aware of a large party on University Hill on Saturday evening and allegations of violence toward police officers responding to the scene. We condemn this conduct. It is unacceptable and irresponsible, particularly in light of the volume of training, communication and enforcement the campus and city have dedicated to ensuring compliance with COVID-19 public health orders. CU Boulder will not tolerate any of our students engaging in acts of violence or damaging property.
CU Boulder has made it clear to our student body that following county public health orders is required under the student code of conduct. The vast majority of our students have followed these directives. When health officials and police have referred public health order violations to our student conduct office, CU Boulder has responded quickly and imposed discipline when violations were established. Disciplinary actions include interim exclusions from campus and 45 suspensions so far this academic year. We will continue to take these actions to make clear that protecting our community and our campus is of utmost importance and that we will not tolerate such violations. Any student who is found responsible for having engaged in acts of violence toward the law enforcement or other first responders will be removed from CU Boulder and not readmitted.
We appreciate the efforts of law enforcement to address the unacceptable conduct of these students and apologize to the residents of University Hill for their behavior.
FOX31’s Courtney Fromm was on the hill for the aftermath following the dispersement of the partygoers.
I've been to Boulder ONCE. That was to see Charlton Heston speak.
Lots of protesting and counterprotesting before, during and after the event.
And Longmont is a better place to visit, especially when the rodeo is in town.
Good for the kids.
Woke Boulder. I wonder how many are good little socialists.
Sounds like things are back to normal at CU-B.
I wonder where they learned that was OK
Wow. I guess they don’t make armored vehicles like they used to. Maybe the Boulder police should upgrade to one of these:
Side note to the Boulder police: Just remember to convert the two cannons into pepper-spray devices. And paint over the old markings.
I love Boulder it’d be a great place to live if it didn’t have a bunch of twisted libs living there.
And install environmentally friendly electric motors.
Expect to see this happening nationwide. University seniors aren’t going to lockdown and suck their thumbs until Fauci says they can go out and play.
Apparently they have to fight.... for their right.... to paaaaaarteeeeyyyyy.
I can guarantee that every single one of them is a rabid Trump supporter, MAGA flags all over their dorm rooms and off campus apartments, enough MAGA hats to hand out to half the town, pins, bumper stickers, you name it.
Trump Trump Trump Trump .... Trump everywhere, as far as they eye can see.
Riiiiiiight?
So, what’ll happen is the cops will take a beating, the school will explain that things got out of hand and that the kids were just expressing themselves, no one prosecuted because we don’t want any negative information in their backgrounds and, on the off chance that some do get charged, either their parents will hire some liberal lawyers or some big time liberal law firm will do some pro bono work to help them out. Can’t have good, loyal socialist foot soldiers getting in trouble for the cause.
“...I love Boulder...”
Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.
South Park’s episode about folks having a Whole Foods and loving the smell of their own f*rts was obviously about Boulder. That town used to be a great place, now one must learn f*rt smelling to enter. No worry, though, because they want to go totally “renewable energy in the next few years. We know how that’ll go. As for CU, keep the STEM sections and destroy the rest.
My wife, as a child, lived there back in the early 1960s. She said the CU students were wild back then.
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—One armored police vehicle sustained “heavy damage,” as did a fire truck, Waugh said.—
Now that’s a party.
I don't understand your post. You support this kind of behavior?
“And Longmont is a better place to visit, especially when the rodeo is in town.”
Longmont sucks now. Full of bums, illegals and hippies from Cali. It used to be nice.
All of them.
Boulder is the Austin TX of Colorado. Or the Madison WS of Colorado.
Leftist enclave.
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