#Occupy Denver: Police on loud speaker; "you have 15 minutes to disperse".

[dixiegrrrrl]

Twitter from Denver reporting police are moving in, @ 3 am their time! The middle of the night..do they think no one is watching??

[slay]

1. Live streaming video link as the cops move in - protesters locking arms around the medical tent:

Link: http://www.9news.com/video/9newsonline.aspx Protesters chanting for more time now at 5:58 eastern...

*on edit - the cops have taken down most tents, and are lining up and telling people they have to leave anywhere near the park area now. 6am.

[joshcryer]

2. Cops said everyone needs to disperse completely now. I expect mass arrests soon.

They were chanting "one more hour" because the park opens in 58 miuntes. (5AM here.)

[WinkyDink]

18. Class-action lawsuits soon to follow.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Thanks for the live link

45 mins until it opens ...

[joshcryer]

3. Police presence has dwindled a bit, 55 minutes until park reopens.

[slay]

4. Cops may have waited too long - with that little amount of time left til the park opens

i'd be worried what tomorrow night might bring though.

*on edit - just heard on the chan 9 stream that the park is going to be closed indefinitely. hrmm...

[joshcryer]

5. Heh, silly reporter asks rhetorical question "Is this the right way to spread the message?" He...

...stopped mid-question and laughed at himself, because he's been covering it all night apparently, no doubt because the media company he works for told him to.

[slay]

6. Yeah and I love how the other reporter shot him down - said he'd been reporting on the stuff the

people are pissed about for 10 years now! good for him. although they are both talking shit about "leftists" and "Greg" wants them to try more mainstream tactics. pfft.

[joshcryer]

10. Yeah, I had to start an OP about the butt end of that discussion. So asinine.

At first when the reporter started to question his retarded statement I thought he was going to drop that nonsense, couldn't believe he brought it back up.

The contempt for "Marxists" or "socialists" is silly. The United States has socialist elements, and the guy doing the interview is standing on a road paid for by the people, etc, etc.

[slay]

11. Yeah both these guys are being assholes now

talking shit about anything that doesn't conform and isn't capitalism. fuck these idiots.

[joshcryer]

12. It's Fox News, after all. Shame that this is the only stream I can find.

I was pleased with the positive reporting about the peaceful nature of the tent removal (in fact he just reiterated it), but other than that, this guy is a blowhard and he is inputting his own opinion too much as a "journalist."

[slay]

13. The link I'm watching is nbc

still - way too MSM establishment types.

[slay]

16. Here is a still camera feed - no news commentators. You can see some kind of police or

emergency vehicles -- http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/10/live-camera-view-of-the-occupy-denver-protesters/

[joshcryer]

7. 50 minutes.

[joshcryer]

9. No arrests have been made by state patrol or Denver Police.

That's the "official statement" that I just posted verbatim. I don't know if that covers "all" police or what.

[certainot]

14. local RW radio station reporting live- AM 630

The Denver capitol protest (see occupydenver.org ) has been growing for weeks. I happened to wake up at 3:30 AM and turned on the local right wing radio station KHOW AM 630 (one of many in CO) and they are reporting live from the camp where police moved in around midnight.

I have a slow connection so can't do much.

There are riot guns and billy clubs drawn.

The local RW radio stations have been pressuring Dem Gov Hickenlooper to clean out the demonstrators and he has given the orders.

KHOW 630 has Hannity and Beck, among others, later in the day. Local right winger (moderate pretender) Peter Boyles is there live to report.

KHOW is sister station to 850 KOA which is the grand right wing station in CO. KOA is the home of local Ayn Randian tool Mike Rosen (9AM) who is followed Rush Limbaugh (12 AM MST) and Mike Brown (doing a heck of a job Brownie- FEMA head from Katrina) and broadcasts the Broncos, Rockies, and (shame on University of Colorado) Buffs.

AM 760 is the progressive station and I don't think they have the resources to be there live.

4AM: Peter Boyles (walking a line between a moderate facade and long time local right wing tool) reporting "this is going to get good" as cop cars are moving toward protestors laying in the street.

I am temporarily in the Boulder area, am immobile, and am not affiliated with occupydenver.org.

As I said i have a slow connection.

[joshcryer]

15. Live TV stream is showing police being mostly static*, no real hostilities.

No surprise that right wing radio is making it out to be some sort of violent clash.

*EDIT, with the obvious exception of tents being taken from people.

[certainot]

20. "masterfully done" says Boyles of the police- they call the Capitol area the "park"

calling it a "park" is technically true but without video can't see that this is right in front of the capitol.

[slay]

17. I just heard the cops on loudspeaker say "The Park Is Closed Indefinitely"

fuckers! from: http://www.9news.com/video/9newsonline.aspx

[kentuck]

19. Canned Heat - Police in Denver (My Crime)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwh2tIfNNfE

Denver has a long reputation.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. 6am update... cops slowly moving in

core group of about 50 refuse to leave

[joshcryer]

22. Journalist: "Very very close to the arrest situation here."

So cold and calculating how he said that, had to inform the station that they were about to capture the moment that they actually care about. The reels of various Occupy Denver interviews will be stashed in an archive somewhere.

[joshcryer]

23. Apparently the protesters have been encircled around the kitchen that they'd been feeding people...

...from for several weeks. It's a strong point for the protesters, because the kitchen has been feeding people, anyone who walked by and wanted something to eat, for free.

[joshcryer]

24. "Final warning" to "clear the area." Tone is esclating a lot. "More police than protesters."

I have to get going, soon.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. tents removed.. confrontation escalating..

news camera is now in the thick of the crowd

a dozen still locked arm in arm around the food truck

1 detention just made

[Viva_La_Revolution]

26. 12-15 detained or arrested..

loading up the last of the food and kitchen into dump trucks :(