Springtime attacks in the area
february 25: woman briefly escapes from police in denver
A 20-year-old Denver woman was pulled over and then taken into custody on 3 outstanding warrants. On the way to the police station, she slipped off her handcuffs and, upon arrival, fled on foot. She was caught.
february: denver home squatted for a month
Police say between Feb. 1 and March 2, four people resided in a Denver man’s home on the 600 block of West First Avenue while he was away on an extended absence.
march 9: man beaten for rape in denver
A Denver man in his mid-20s was assaulted in front of his home by an acquaintance who accused him of being a rapist before punching him several times in the face and stomach and then slamming him to the concrete before fleeing on foot.
march 17: recruitment center attacked in fort collins
On the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, three windows of a military recruitment center were smashed with stones.
march 20: denver walgreens attacked with incendiary device
A small improvised incendiary device exploded in the alley behind Walgreens at 2000 E. Colfax Ave. at about 1:37 a.m. March 20. Police said the device consisted of a firecracker duct-taped to a milk container filled with flammable liquid. It started a small fire behind the building.
april 7: yuppie party crashed in vail
Activists from Grand Junction crashed a yuppie party in the resort town of Vail because the lamb at the party was ranched with slave labor.
april 23: denver man tries to run over a cop
A 19-year-old Denver man was driving through a school zone when he was flagged down by an officer on foot. The driver stepped on the gas and nearly hit the officer. Police pursued and arrested him.
may 13: brief escape from denver courtroom
A 22-year-old Denver man was in court for arraignment on charges of felony trespass and driving under restraint when he made an attempt to escape and “assaulted” a sheriff’s deputy on the way out. Police say the suspect was chased by deputies and even the judge, who helped catch him.
may 26: arson suspected in downtown office fire
A fire in a men’s bathroom on the ninth floor of a downtown office building at 910 16th St. was being investigated as an arson.
may 27: denver pizza hut robbed (probably by a former or current employee)
An unknown suspect robbed a Pizza Hut location at 880 E. Colfax Ave. at about 9:10 a.m. May 27. An employee was opening the store when the suspect entered through the front door with the keypad combo. Inside, the robber located the employee and flourished a handgun. S/he demanded the code to the safe, took the contents of the safe and fled on foot out the back door.
june 3: hundreds of tires slashed in littleton
In the early morning, someone flattened the tires of 52 cars in yuppie suburbs near Denver.
june 14: car arson at 7-eleven in denver
Police arrested a man on suspicion of arson after he set fire to a Chevy Tahoe in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven at 303 Broadway.
june 15: peruvian consulate vandalized in denver
Vandals spray-painted the entrance to the Peruvian Consulate “in solidarity with the 85 indigenous people in Peru murdered by their government while trying to protect their land.”
june 28: queer graffiti in grand junction
Queer graffiti messages have been popping up downtown in this notoriously homophobic west Colorado town. Someone’s been tagging “It’s okay to be gay” all over the place, and posters wheatpasted around town say “Stonewall was a Riot… fuck cops.”
july: ‘nicotine ninja’ on the loose in jefferson county
Police are looking for a robber they are calling the “nighttime nicotine ninja,” who has staged over 100 robberies by breaking out glass doors of convenience stores and grabbing cartons of cigarettes. Over $120,000 of smokes have been stolen.
july: prank vandalism calls to hotels wreak havoc (not local, but i’m lovin’ it)
A rash of prank calls made to hotels around the US have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage in recent months. The callers have convinced staff and guests of an emergency and to break out windows, set off fire alarms and turn on sprinkler systems.
july 8: bite taken out of deputy in el paso county
Deputies responding to a call of a disturbance in El Paso County, CO waited until the suspect returned. The deputy confronted him, and he began to fight the deputy. During the fight he bit the deputy in the arm. The deputy tasered him.
july 9: denver cop injured in car accident
A Denver police officer was treated for “serious” injuries at a hospital overnight after a car accident when an SUV cut him off.
july 10: shots fired at colorado state trooper in adams county
The driver of an SUV who refused to pull over for a state trooper fired shots at the trooper. The shots missed, and the SUV crashed into a light pole. The driver and passenger got away on foot in spite of an extensive search.
july 10: burglars rob from the rich in denver
Burglars methodically ransacked eight adjacent garages in the (super-yuppie) Country Club neighborhood while the owners were asleep. They stole a $4,500 bicycle, two sets of golf clubs and numerous power tools, among other things.
Regional Prisoner Resistance
january 23: Topeka, Kansas – a County Jail guard fell 20 feet onto a stairwell when he was shoved over a second floor railing. He suffered a fractured skull, facial fractures, a blood clot on his brain, substantial bruising to the face, cracked and bruised ribs, and seven staples to close a wound in the back of his head.
january 31: Pecos, Texas – a riot broke out at the Reeves County Detention Center for the second time in two months. As many as 2,080 rioted after an inmate who needed medical attention was sent to soltary confinement instead. Prisoners took over the guards’ radio communication equipment and the guards retreated from direct confrontation. Fires heavily damaged buildings I and II. It took over 12 hours to regain control of the facility. This is the second riot over medical attention in two months. The RCDC is privately run by the Florida-based GEO Group.
february 7: Pueblo, CO – an inmate of the Colorado Mental Health Institute escaped but was caught over a month later in North Carolina.
april 16: Albuquerque, New Mexico – a fight erupted after a staff member restrained an inmate at the Youth Diagnostic Development Center gymnasium during a bingo event. More than 45 of the 100 inmates were involved in the fight and 6 staff members were hospitalized.
may 6: Boise, Idaho – a guard was injured after being attacked by an inmate in a general housing unit day room at the Idado Correctional Center.
june 11: Denver, CO – an inmate of the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility won a $1.3 million dollar lawsuit against a prison guard who had repeatedly raped her.
june 24: Golden, CO – an inmate of Colorado Correctional Center Camp George West walked out and away from the facility. Police are searching for him.
june 25: Walsenburg, CO – inmates at the Huerfano County Correctional Center were placed on a four-day lock-down after guards found three homemade weapons.
july 2: A man who had escaped from a Colorado prison was caught in a park in Arizona when the police asked for his park permit, and then ran his ID.
july 2: A man who had escaped from a Colorado prison was caught in a park in Arizona when the police asked for his park permit, and then ran his ID.
Tags: anarchists, arson, bomb, communique, Denver, domestic violence, escape, gender, graffiti, police, prison, queer, riot, robbery, squatting, vandalism, yuppies
We smashed up a Wells Fargo bank last night in Fort Collins, Colorado. We don’t really need to explain our reasons–you probably already know them. But we’ll share a few things.
An anonymous communique at Colorado Indymedia:
'Til it Breaks - denver social war 