Posted on 02/15/2015 4:13:11 PM PST by Steelfish
Denver Police Upset After Memorial Vandalized During Protest DENVER — Feb 15, 2015 By SADIE GURMAN
Denver Police Chief Robert White on Sunday defended his policy ordering police not to interfere with protesters, saying he found it "disgusting" that they vandalized a memorial for fallen police officers while officers had to stand by and watch, but he said their restraint was necessary to protect the community.
Protesters threw red paint on the memorial outside the department's headquarters Saturday during a march against police brutality.
Officers and the city's police union were upset after they were told not to interfere.
In an email sent throughout the department on Sunday, White said there are only rare occasions when police would have to take "immediate enforcement action" during a demonstration.
"We have learned that providing route security at a distance and intentionally avoiding direct confrontation prevents injury to officers, limits liability, and minimizes the criminal actions of many protesters," the chief wrote in the email obtained by The Associated Press. The email came after officers said they should have been allowed to act sooner upon witnessing a crime.
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I hope the police had video of it so they can find and charge them.
The marxist left has won.........
Hopefully the police officers on the scene will show the same discipline when the mob finally recognizes its true enemy, and marches on City Hall and the Mayor’s Residence.
Indeed they have! It has been coming for a long time, certainly after 2008, when the Democratic party went hard
left and the Republican party just gave up.
Completely disgusting. In November, DPD had four officers run over after they had been called out to protect an intersection that was being crossed by a high school “spontaneous black rage” demonstration that was actually orchestrated by the school’s principal. One cop was critically injured, almost died, and is now trying to relearn walking and the basic physical actions necessary to survive.
But political correctness overrides any other consideration.
It’s things like this that remind me of why I stay out of Denver.
“DPD had four officers run over”
The guy that did it seems to have disappeared and the lawyers have clammed up.
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Don’t cities have fire departments anymore....the ones with high pressure firecannons that will easily shoot water about 1 block????
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