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Denver just saw its largest protest against President Donald Trump this year, with thousands marching from noon through night on Saturday, June 14. Although the day started out peacefully, many who kept demonstrating late into the night are still piecing together several chaotic events that led to three dozen arrests and law enforcement in riot gear, firing chemical irritants. And, as with so many protests, the reports from law enforcement and participants differ. Marches numbering in the hundreds and thousands split off from the Capitol throughout the day on June 14. When a large march returned to the Capitol via Lincoln at around 5:30 p.m., speakers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), one of the protest’s organizers, encouraged people to keep demonstrators in the weeks ahead and then told them to get home safely. Not everyone went home when PSL called it a day, however. An hour later, at 6:30 p.m., a sixth march set out down West Colfax Avenue from the Capitol towa...

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