# @denverwestword on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-07T20:00:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Denver Westword (@denverwestword) — https://gondola.cc/denverwestword

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Three people in their seventies say they were attacked by protesters leaving the State Capitol after the Rage Against the Regime rally on Saturday, August 2, with two women having to visit the hospital.

“These people just turned on me on a dime,” says Andrew Moura, a retired photojournalist who was attacked by demonstrators while taking photos of them. “People started to swarm around me like someone set the word on me.” 

Moura says he went to the protest to take photos, because he still enjoys photography as a hobby. He showed up late to the protests, at around 5 p.m., but was able to capture photos of law enforcement arriving in armored trucks and tactical gear to move protesters out of the street. 

After most protesters and police left, he continued snapping photos of a small group that lingered on Lincoln Street in front of the Capitol. He was quietly taking photos when about fifteen protesters suddenly turned on him, Moura says, noting that they were all dressed head-to-toe in black, wearing masks and carrying signs. 

According to Moura, the group began pushing him with their bodies up the hill on the State Capitol’s west lawn and shouting at him. As Moura tried to exit the scrum of people around him, he says one woman slapped him a couple times, and he responded by taking a picture of her (pictured above). She then punched him, he says, and that’s when Colorado State Patrol, which polices the Capitol grounds, stepped in and pulled him away. 

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

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