How the Boulder Police handle Riots and demonstrations; Jann Scott’s Journal
We are so lucky to live in Boulder. When it comes to big events, football games, demonstrations and all out riots you could not ask for a better Police Department. I am serious about this. There are those few crazy anarchist who hate all police but forget about them.
Look at any CU Buffs football game day. 50 thousand drunken fans party it up all over our city and and Boulder PD is as cool as can be. When we had Kinetics at the Res. 50,000 people would party all day and never a bit of trouble. When the Mall Crawl was in full blast in the late 80’s , 100,000 people would trash the city and Boulder PD maintained.
In 1995, 96 and 97 CU students rioted for fun, nearly burned the hill down and injured 60 Boulder Police officers. 3 injuries were career ending with zero injuries to students. Unbelievable. Then Police Chief Tom Koby called the 1997 riots so extreme that use of deadly force was required but he would not allow it. Students were trying to kill police officers. It was a student riot all over they wanted to get drunk and burn the hill. Seriously, that is what it was about.
The college kids really went off the deep end that year with alcohol. The tried to burn buildings down, stoned the police, set fires all over the hill, threw molotov cocktails at fire fighters. I was there. It was not funny.
Boulder PD attends weekly protests all over the city by leftist groups and they do a fine job of letting things be.
Of course they have decades of experience and lots of training. In the late 60’s things were rough here when students shut down the city over the Vietnam War, but all and all We do well.
What is interesting is we are a community 95% white and rich by by all standards, yet we have many many civil rights protests all over the city. Some lefty white kids can be pretty Agro, but Boulder PD always holds the moral high ground.
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It looks like now Michael was a straight up Gangster Blood who had just rob a 7-11. When police stopped him for J-walking he attacked the officer, climbed into his car, tried to get the police officers gun. He tried to kill a cop. then when he was pushed out of the car, the police officer shot and killed him. Well good. No racism here. Just one cop trying to make it home alive.
The officer felt threatened with two thugs standing there. He shot Michael Brown rightfully so, Michael Brown lived the life of a violent gangster and he died that life. That is what happened there. Should Ferguson have more black cops ?? of course. But did the white cop act in accordance with protocol.
Michael brown was pumped up on crime and he thought he’d top off his day by killing a cop. Ooops.