Tag: Black Lives Matter
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NEWS | Scenes from Inauguration Day at the Colorado Capitol
Chanting about police brutality, burning flags, and protesting systemic injustices – all scenes from the Colorado Capitol today after Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. (Video by Katie Klann and Skyler Ballard)
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2020 | A Year in Video
A lot happened in 2020. The Gazette video team presents a look back at our year. (Video by Skyler Ballard & Katie Klann)
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Nearly 60,000 sign petition against reinstatement of Aurora officers who mocked Elijah McClain death
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tens of thousands have signed a Change.org petition advocating against the reinstatement of three former Aurora police officers who took a selfie mocking the death of Elijah McClain. The petition, started two weeks ago by…
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Aurora police, paramedics deny wrongdoing in death of Elijah McClain
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The city of Aurora and employees of the Aurora Police Department and Aurora Fire Rescue deny any wrongdoing in the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in 2019, according to the civil lawsuit filed by McClain’s family. McClain, a young Black man, was killed after being…
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Coloradans protest no officers charged with Breonna Taylor’s death
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hundreds of people protested in Denver Wednesday night against a Grand Jury’s decision not to charge police officers in connection with Breonna Taylor’s death. Taylor, 26, was shot and killed in her apartment by three…
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Summer of discontent: pandemic, record heat, fires, protests and racial reckoning
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This was weeks before the heat. May 28, a night of American unrest. Another tumultuous moment in this time of sickness and social and political reckoning. Apryl Alexander, a leader with Black Lives Matter 5280,…
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Hundreds march downtown to demand release of arrested BLM activists
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hundreds of people rallied Saturday afternoon outside the Colorado State Capitol to protest the arrests of five Black Lives Matter activists in Aurora. The rally organizers, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), demanded charges be dropped against the five activists who were accused of…
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Youth BLM activists, anti-protesters gather in Westminster
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Westminster youth held a “Youth Unite for Black Lives” protest Sunday afternoon, attracting a group of counter-protesters as well. The Black Lives Matter march began in the Orchard Town Center at 12:30 p.m. before participants…
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De’Von Bailey family attorneys file lawsuit alleging wrongful death in police shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Attorneys for the estate of De’Von Bailey, a 19-year-old black man shot four times in the back last summer while fleeing Colorado Springs police, sued in federal court Thursday alleging wrongful death and civil rights…