Occupy Denver - SWAT Invasion - (Extended Version) October 15, 2011

The following events happened just prior to this footage being captured:

After a lively march around downtown, encircling the Federal Reserve Denver Branch, thousands of people from all walks of life, flooded back onto the park in the front of the Colorado State Capitol building. Someone had set up a tent providing food and water to the crowd. It was a sunny and unusually warm day for October in Denver, and water inparticular was in high demand. The crowd was passionate, but totally non-violent. Large teams of police and government agents had closed nearby roads and were surrounding the protesters from a distance.

The occupation was taking place peacefully, until a man with a badge threatened to cage the people working the food tent for not having a permit to vend. The "vendors" refused to close down, then a small but heavily armed, team of police started slowly moving towards kitchen tent. At this time, people got fed up. They swarmed across the street towards the team of police, in an attempt to record and block the cops from encroaching any farther towards the make-shift kitchen. A human shield was set up around the kitchen, and the state's initial assault was prevented.

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[leolovelife]

@bowler2245 capitalism is slavery, the 1st world is enslaving the 3rd world, i sound stupid to you because you are ignorant

[Blackperll66]

wtf is dude talking about @ 27:03. these people are so stoned. i can't understand a word they're saying. talking heads. lol. they need to stop posting these videos. they really look stupid, loud, and disorderly. Just saying. I've been watching videos for like 2 hours now. rotflmao. I needed entertainment because I don't watch TV. Stumbled over these Occupy videos and have been lmao all evening long. It's high comedy, from so many angles and vantage points. HILARIOUS tom-foolery!

[Blackperll66]

Why do Occupiers keep saying they are peaceful? All they do is yell and scream obscenities and slogans. It's so annoying. They like having loud faceoffs with the cops. esticulating and shit. Then they act outraged and shocked when they get beat down or arrested. Then there's like 100 people recording with their phones. I think they're all facebook friends. I'm laughing my ass off. Somebody give these children their meds before they get us all on curfews and Fema trains. Just saying.

[armskills]

(A).....(team enemy).....(A)

[djphilmore]

who the fuck brings a gun to a protest?? oh yah.... when are we gonna wake up?

[bowler2245]

Stupid anarchist bastards don't know fuck about anything. What the fuck is the 99% shit, where the Fuck did u get those numbers. The retards protest that Capitilism doesn't work, but their wrong. the U.s has been a mixed economy since 1933. so its socialism that doesn't work, not Capitilism

[wjt4]

Do your peaceful assembling at home...

[occupymyassyoufags]

All videos like this make Americans look like a bunch of cry babies.

[Mirthfull]

They are not making america look bad... there making america look like a place where people actually stand up for their rights. 

[sagamori]

your are troll