12 arrested during Denver’s ‘No Kings’ protests, police say

Eleven people were arrested in downtown Denver during a wave of secondary marches after the afternoon s main No Kings protest disbanded police disclosed A group of protesters marching west on Sixth Avenue through traffic at about p m Saturday tried to access Interstate near Santa Fe Drive a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department reported in an email to The Denver Post Denver officers made several loudspeaker announcements declaring the march an unlawful assembly and ordering the group to disperse the spokesperson stated After an unspecified amount of time officers deployed smoke to scatter the crowd and arrested three people on suspicion of unreleased charges according to the department Officers denied using other means to disperse protesters including firing pepper balls Another eight protesters were arrested during other secondary marches police reported One person was arrested during the main No Kings event earlier that day for possession of a knife Police disclosed Sunday that the protesters arrested Saturday were still being processed The arrestees suspected offenses include assault assault on a peace officer graffiti and other municipal offenses It s unclear how numerous people were arrested in each category None of the arrestees had been publicly identified as of Sunday Related Articles Xcel considering safety power outages during extreme weather in Denver CSU Rams fire football coach Jay Norvell after falling to - Giants Broncos Denver held scoreless entering halftime Colorado weather Denver sees first freeze of the season After a million renovation cursed Capitol Hill mansion is ready to reopen The dozen people arrested were a fraction of the thousands estimated to have marched through Denver on Saturday in protest of the policies and actions of President Donald Trump and his administration An unknown number of protesters marched in more than cities and towns across Colorado rallying against Trump s deployment of federal agents and military forces into U S cities targeting of immigrant families and threats to the country s integral democratic systems Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter