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State Lawmakers Return To A Boarded-Up Capitol As Police Brutality Protests Rock Downtown Denver

By |2023-03-06T12:09:17-05:00July 7th, 2020|

State lawmakers returned to work Monday in a state Capitol battered by four days of protests. The building and surrounding monuments have been defaced with graffiti, and windows along the lowest floor were boarded up with plywood. Some windows on the second floor of the Capitol were also smashed with rocks. A state employee told legislative leaders that the offices of Gov. Jared Polis and his chief of staff both had broken windows.

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