DENVER (KDVR) — Park County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man on Monday who allegedly drove off a highway in Bailey in an attempt to run over protesters.
The Park County Sheriff’s Office, in a Tuesday Facebook post, detailed the Labor Day incident, which took place on the shoulder of U.S. 285 near Rosalie Road. According to an event page, a protest was planned in that area as part of the Workers Over Billionaires nationwide protests.
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The sheriff’s office said the protesters in Bailey were on the highway’s shoulder Monday when a person later identified as Hawk Nosaka, 49, in a full-sized pickup truck “intentionally drove off the highway toward the crowd of protestors.”…