Denver Police Arrest 31 Protesters at Convention

DENVER, Colorado -- Denver police arrested 31 protesters outside the Democratic presidential nominating convention on Tuesday, including 13 anti-abortion demonstrators. Eighteen people including out-of-state residents were arrested by the Denver police, bringing to 135 the total number of arrests since Saturday, before the convention opened, police said in an e-mailed statement. Most were charged with interfering with police authority, loitering or trespassing. On Monday, police used pepper spray to quell a confrontation with police. In that incident, 100 people were arrested. The 13 anti-abortion protestors, who were not apparently counted among the 135, conducted a sit-down strike outside a security gate of the Pepsi Centre after they were refused admission to the highly secured Democratic presidential nominating convention. Randall Terry, national director of the Washington-based Operation Rescue, was among those arrested.
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Posted by Editor at August 27, 2008 06:53 AM