Cops in Riot Gear Stormed a Violin Vigil for Elijah McClain

Protesters close to the police line at a peaceful rally and march convened in memory of Elijah McClain on June 27. Photo: Carlos Espino On Saturday, activists in Aurora, Colorado, convened for a peaceful rally and march to demand justice for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a brutal arrest by local police last August.

Saturday’s events began with a rally and march organized by Denver’s Party for Socialism and Liberation, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. in the park between the APD headquarters and the Aurora Municipal Center. That would be followed by a student-led rally and another march, which took off from the adjacent Municipal Center sometime after 5 p.m. Violinists — including six-time Grammy nominee Ashanti Floyd, from Georgia, and Lee England Jr.

Blake Jackson, another attendee, recalled the police assuming an L shape to surround vigil participants, many of whom had simply been sitting on the lawn and listening to music, and some of whom had their kids in tow. “They were intimidating and pushing up against us,” Jackson said, until the crowd had been corralled into a parking lot at the edge of the grass.

The violinists played in the parking lot for maybe another hour, he added, moving to the park across the street, where they “conducted a proper vigil for Elijah.”

If it was a bunch of Accordion Players performing 'Deutschland Über Alles' the Cops would have Loved It!

This is the most insane reaction to a very small group of protesters I have seen! AND some were playing violins❗🎻🎻🎻🎻Who was the dispatcher for this SWAT squad❓'Attention ALL units, we have a tiny MOB of wild violin players waving their Bows around'.🎻

Yes we all know. Looting, vandalism, violence and arson is peaceful

'Peaceful Protests' ... yeah, THAT has been overused and misused a lot lately.

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