From the Rocky Mountain News

DOWNTOWN — Police mistook an 80-year-old man as an anarchist Monday night while he walked from the Denver library to his bus stop.

Of medium height and an aging frame, Cecil Bethea became trapped in a tide of protesters near Civic Center and was then detained by police.

Briefcase in hand, the elderly man stood and smoked a cigarette with a slight frown, as police fired pepper spray into the chaos of young anarchists surrounding him.

“Suddenly there was a police barricade on all four sides. I stood there and didn’t know what to do,” said the retired men’s suits salesman. “I did not carry a sign and was not shouting, but just stood there and said nothing.”

Two police officers drew Bethea from the crowd with his hands tied behind his back and searched him extensively because they were concerned with the content of his briefcase.

“It was ridiculous how they handled me. You would have thought I was a mass murderer or something,” he said.

Several of the protesters yelled at the police for their handling of Bethea.

“They were a little rough with me, especially because I did not represent any danger to them,” Bethea said. “I don’t think anybody would say I look dangerous or scary.”

A resident of Denver for more than 50 years, Bethea said he was on his way home from the library. Police released him after he showed them a library receipt.

“I just sat there waiting on the curb until one police officer asked me if I was a little old to be protesting, and I repeated that I wasn’t a protester,” he said. “Thank God for the receipt with the date on it, because evidently it reads off that I just checked two books out.”

Police escorted Bethea out through a nearby hotel.

“I went and bought a cup of coffee because my throat was dry,” he said. “I planned to be an observer, not a participant.”

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/25/80-year-old-man-gets-caught-protest/

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I am not shocked. The DPD has a set behavioral code. They have their own micro social exchange which is almost as scary as the LAPD. The DPD are the kind of police who will beat and arrest and ask questions later.

They will lie under oath:

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=97466&catid=339

They will let a woman bleed to death under their care:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13568031/detail.html

Some of the videotape in this case is missing, and the DPD doesn’t know where it went???

They are racist:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16905428/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news

They will severely beat a teenage boy within an inch of his life:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/27/teen-claiming-beating-police-seeks-3-million/

Don’t think I am not watching the DPD. They are frightening. I know all I need to know about the DPD. Among others:

1. They will arrest a woman who called THEM to help her against domestic violence.
2. She had multiple cuts on her back for being pushed into glass coffeetable.
3. She was exonerated 38 hours later, but the cuts were infected at that time.
4. They did nothing to pay for the incurred hospital bills thereafter.

The DPD will also:

1. Arrest a teenager for having green hair and being in the cemetery while it was open.
2. She was there doing an art project of grave rubbings and also for history class.
3. She was there during legal hours of operation.
4. The cops wrote 1 hour later to make it a trespassing charge.
5. They took a picture of the cross around her neck and used it as evidence that the teen worshipped Satan. It was a nice silver cross, nothing different about it at all.
6. They will lie under oath.

The DPD is also capable of hitting woman, while in handcuffs as she asked repeatedly why she was being arrested. She had a right to be answered. Her answer was 5 stitches behind her ear, as the cop had punched her to the ground.

Big Cop + little woman in handcuff = unconscionable violence against a citizen.

The DPD is scary, watch them. I am.