A federal judge has rejected a request to repeal statewide restrictions on religious gatherings in Colorado, insisting the coronavirus still poses too great a risk to residents. The move was scorched by civil liberties advocates. US District Judge Christine Arguello ruled this week that allowing such gatherings would “present a high risk of harm to the state of Colorado as well as the public in general,” […]
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Incidents of customers in the US refusing to wear masks or obey social distancing regulations while in public during the ongoing coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic are nothing new, with some polite and simple reminders quickly escalating to an altercation resulting in violence against those doing the reminding. A Colorado bartender was violently shoved by an adult customer after the latter was required to comply with the facility’s […]
California And Colorado: Climate-Driven Transformation Of Wildfires Worldwide By Michael Kodas, Inside Climate News. August 25, 2020 California And Colorado: Climate-Driven Transformation Of Wildfires Worldwide2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/fire.png200px200px Wildfires from Australia to Siberia are not just larger, hotter and faster, but burning in areas and seasons where they were previously rare. The wildfires that exploded over the past few days in California and Colorado show clear influences of global […]
Dozens of anti-police protesters have been swarming around downtown Denver, Colorado, setting fires and smashing windows, with authorities seemingly struggling to contain the hit-and-run violence. Police officers in riot gear were seen guarding the Denver Police Department on Saturday night, but elsewhere across downtown Denver, local reporters described “ugly scenes” of arson and vandalism. Police conducted eight arrests as smaller groups of rioters have been running […]
An air tanker drops retardant as the Lake Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest north of Santa Clarita, Calif., on Thursday. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP An air tanker drops retardant as the Lake Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest north of Santa Clarita, Calif., on Thursday. Noah Berger/AP Two back-to-back blazes broke out around Los Angeles this week, marking a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/0a/1080115497_0:244:3046:1958_1200x675_80_0_0_cdbcf1cb0534605059c5cd49140bce8c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008101080115421-blm-protesters-blue-rally-participants-clash-in-colorado—videos/ The Blue Lives Matter movement emerged in support of the American police after Black Lives Matter protesters and affiliated movements called for defunding the police force in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Anti-racism protesters crashed a Back the Blue rally outside the Fort Collins Police Department Saturday afternoon. The confrontation resulted in three arrested, both from […]
Police in Colorado have been forced to apologize after a shocking viral video showed them detaining four clearly distressed young Black girls in a parking lot after mistaking their vehicle as stolen. The Gilliam family were reportedly in Aurora to get their nails done—but, before they could reach an open salon, the family’s four kids were ordered at gunpoint to lay facedown in the parking lot. […]
A car drove through a crowd of protesters that were walking on I-225 in Aurora, Colorado, and a protester shot other protesters while trying to shoot the driver. At least two protesters were hit or grazed by bullets as a fellow “protester” tried to shoot the driver. There were multiple gunshots on the car, but the people inside did not appear to be injured. Here’s a […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/1a/1079985173_4:-1:1204:675_1200x675_80_0_0_31f9777a9c046ea13d2b3fd3a262b462.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007261079985111-protester-accidentally-shoots-another-protester-as-jeep-drives-through-crowd-in-colorado—videos/ The man was reportedly trying to hit a car that drove through a crowd of protesters gathered for a demonstration in memory of black man Elijah McClain, who was killed by police last year. A protester opened fire injuring another person in the leg while attempting to hit a vehicle that drove through a crowd of demonstrators on I-225 […]
Two people have been injured in a chaotic incident, after a car drove through a crowd marching on I-225 highway in Colorado, and one protester pulled out a gun, but missed the vehicle and instead hit another person in the leg. Several hundred people, marching in memory of the 23-year-old local black man Elijah McClain killed by police last year, blocked the busy road and mixed […]
The Colorado Lottery is partnering with ETHDenver, Ethereum’s largest hackathon, to spur the slapdash development of a decentralized web-based game of chance. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. […]
An unlucky squirrel from Colorado has tested positive for bubonic plague, local health officials have said. With US Covid-19 cases soaring past the 3.3 million mark, news on the classic disease’s comeback have caused quite a stir. The discovery of the infected rodent was announced by the Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) body. The squirrel is the first case of plague in the county this year, the […]
The bubonic plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, and can infect humans and household animals. While the disease is efficiently treated nowadays, in the Middle Ages the infection caused a pandemic known as the Black Death that killed millions of people in Eurasia and Africa. A squirrel has tested positive for bubonic plague in Morrison, Colorado, some 17 miles southwest of Denver, according to the local […]
Historic Climate Liability Case In Colorado Against Exxon And Suncor By Earth Rights International. July 9, 2020 Historic Climate Liability Case In Colorado Against Exxon And Suncor2020-07-092020-07-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/olo.jpg200px200px Washington, D.C.–Today, the United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit ruled that a case launched by Boulder County, San Miguel County, and the City of Boulder will proceed in state, rather than federal court. Marco Simons, General Counsel of […]
The city of Engelwood, Colorado will require all residents over 5-years-old to wear face masks in public starting on Thursday. FOX News reported: The city of Englewood, Colo. located just south of Denver, will require all citizens to wear face masks Friday as coronavirus cases are on the rise. Violators will have the right to a trial but could face up to a year in prison […]
Lauren Boebert, a mother of four with outspoken views on guns and fringe internet theories, has uprooted Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton. Her primary victory is part of a larger political insurgency taking shape across the country. An unapologetic political outsider, Boebert was declared the winner of Colorado’s 3rd congressional district Republican primary on Wednesday. Tipton, the incumbent, had served five terms in Congress and was endorsed […]
Then-Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper speaks at an Iowa forum in 2019. Now the former Colorado governor is running for U.S. Senate — and locked in a battle for the Democratic primary. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP Then-Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper speaks at an Iowa forum in 2019. Now the former Colorado governor is running for U.S. Senate — and locked in […]
Elijah McClain was walking home from the convenience store on an unusually cool Saturday night in August when three Aurora police officers approached him. According to the official police report, a resident called 911 because the 23-year-old massage therapist was wearing a ski mask and “acting weird” by “waving his arms around,” prompting the officers to approach him and attempt to pat him down. But McClain, […]
New Colorado Law Ends Immunity For Police By Keith Coffman, Reuters. June 22, 2020 New Colorado Law Ends Immunity For Police2020-06-222020-06-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/poamasks-e1592852714527.jpg200px200px Above photo: Some of the San Francisco Police officers holding the line during a protest Friday are seen wearing face masks depicting the Thin Blue Line flag, which became a symbol for counter protesters during the Black Lives Matter movement that emerged against police shootings in […]
A far left attorney and protester is under arrest after he shot a driver in the head during a Black Lives Matter protest in Alamosa, Colorado last Thursday. Attorney James Marshall is charged with attempted murder after he pulled a gun from his pocket and shot a driver in a pickup truck at an intersection in the town. The entire incident was caught on security camera. […]
President Donald Trump may have shown diminishing concern for the threat posed to the American public by the novel coronavirus in recent weeks, but his administration and allies are increasingly pointing to the pandemic as a justification for further longstanding policy goals on immigration. For months, the Trump administration has utilized the pandemic as a pretext for raising the barriers for entry into the country, effectively […]
Authorities said they’ve found a personal item belonging to a missing Colorado woman—the first break in a fruitless five-day search for the mom-of-two that has so far stumped investigators. Suzanne Morphew, 49, disappeared last Sunday while on a bike ride outside Maysville, Colorado. She was first reported missing by a neighbor that evening. Search crews of more than 100 investigators, eight tracking dogs and four drones, […]
A restaurant owner in Colorado has had enough. Despite an order to close and threats to burn the place down, Jesse Arellano decided to keep his restaurant, C&C Breakfast and Korean Kitchen in Castle Rock, open on Monday. “I had one person call me a Nazi and a white supremacist, and I said well I’m not even white so… I’m Spanish and Korean. We’ve had people […]