The Try-Works

No matter what the Colorado Daily says in their caption (.pdf of the front page here, just in case it disappears) the blood is real. I don’t know if they’re lying intentionally, or if they’re just hacks, but there’s no way they should have mistaken this.

The blood is real. That’s demonstrable, that’s fact.

More to come.

Update: For all those doubting whether the blood in the above picture is real, the Colorado Daily offered the following in today’s edition.

The caption of the front-page photograph of yesterday’s Colorado Daily was inaccurate. The source of the caption revealed later that, while the protester depicted had contact with the fake blood poured on the street in front of the parade in Denver on Oct. 6, the blood on his face was, unfortunately, his own. The Colorado Daily regrets the incompleteness of the information provided to readers.

Update II: As I’m sure most of our readers know, Colorado AIM held a press conference today, announcing several civil lawsuits against the Denver Police. The allegations include straight brutality, sure: kicking protesters in the genitals, yanking American Indian men around by their hair, taking batons to protesters’ faces, using pain holds on a female Methodist clergyperson while addressing sexual slurs at her, dropping a female protester on her head and then refusing her medical treatment, keeping Russell Means in isolation without his heart medication for 14 hours after he’d posted bond. Y’know, the usual. But they also include the, well, piggish sublime: stealing $1,100 one protester brought for bond, and, better, taking a blind man’s cane, refusing him a sight guide, and then mocking him as he tried to make his way around the station.

Update III: Rocky Mountain News hack Berny Morson already has a piece up on the AIM press conference, doing his best to minimize the allegations. Perhaps, had Mr. Morson not stepped outside for half to three-quarters of the press conference to chat on his cell phone, he might’ve caught a little more of what was actually being alleged. Hell, he might’ve even pulled his notebook out of his pants and cracked the thing. I understand journalists are notoriously a couple of knights short of a Crusade, but good Christ, one does expect them to at least fucking pretend to pay attention to the news events they’re covering.

Update IV: Oops, forgot one of the allegations of police brutality: using batons to choke protesters into unconsciousness. Don’t wanna forget that one.

Update V: Super-attorney Walter Gerash was on Caplis and Silverman, discussing the Columbus Day protest trials. You can get the .mp3 here. Don’t miss, at 6:03, when Mr. Gerash mentions both video and photographs of the police brutality. Can’t wait for the trial, kids.