Denver Police chief says there's no plan to sweep the Auraria Campus protest again

Chief Ron Thomas said he didn't believe there was a legal way to remove the protestors unless they did something that"creates an unlawful assembly."DENVER — Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said at a citizens oversight board meeting on Friday that the police department has no plans to participate in another sweep of the pro-Palestinian encampment on the Auraria Campus.

"My thought was that it would result in a small number of arrests, if any," he said."Ultimately that didn't turn out to be the case." "As you might imagine, they just came and re-erected the tents and we were back at square one," Thomas said."At which point in time they asked us to come back and engage in the operation again, and that's when I shut it down, said I'm not doing that again."

"At the end of the day, while the school would prefer the group leave the area, I just don't think there is any legal way to do that," he said."Well, I know there's no legal way to do that, unless they truly do something that creates an unlawful assembly. And there's no intelligence at this point to suggest that's imminent."

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