# @denverwestword on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DF8JgfSphOg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27800107-denverwestword-instagram
- **Posted:** 2025-02-11T16:51:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Denver Westword (@denverwestword) — https://gondola.cc/denverwestword

## Caption

Protesters angry with raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency responsible for arresting and deporting immigrants, showed up at the Colorado State Capitol on Saturday, February 8, to march against President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric.

Demonstrators gathered on the Capitol’s west lawn at 2 p.m., spilling out onto a blocked-off part of Lincoln Street. The protest went on until the evening hours, with three people arrested, two for graffiti and one for graffiti and inciting a riot, according to the Denver Police Department.

On Lincoln, protesters organized indigenous-style dances and sage burnings to show pride in their Mexican and Native American heritages, which was a dominant theme in the protest. Members of the Denver branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the political group that organized the February 8 protest, delivered speeches, some warning that ICE would “tear apart thousands of Colorado families” and “ICE needs to get out of our neighborhood.”

Dozens of Mexican flags waived overhead, along with signs in English and Spanish decrying ICE and billionaires, including Elon Musk, the Tesla and X CEO who is part of Trump’s inner circle. Some signs even read “Deport Elon.”

✍️ Read the full story by Bennito L. Kelty at westword.com or at the link in our bio.
🎥 Bennito L. Kelty 

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