Police last week arrested 45 people during sweep of demonstration on Auraria Campus
Denver police Chief Ron Thomas said Friday that he refused a second request from officials at the Auraria Campus to clear pro-Palestine demonstrators from an encampment after police arrested 45 people in a tense sweep of the site last week — and said there is currently “no legal way” for officers to dismantle the demonstration.
“And as you might imagine, they just came and re-erected the tents and we were back at square one,” Thomas said. “At which point asked us to come back and engage in the operation again. And that’s when I shut it down and said, ‘I’m not doing that again.’ I’m not going to go in and arrest 40, now 80 — because by this time the crowd had grown significantly larger. And I didn’t think it was safe, nor did I think it was appropriate, to go in and do that again. So I shut it down.
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