A group of leftists aggressively harassed and attacked attendees of the Colorado Christian University Centennial Institute’s Western Conservative Summit in downtown Denver on Friday night.
One video, posted by The Blaze’s Elijah Schaffer and shared by freelance journalist Andy Ngo, shows a protester pushing a person walking to the Western Conservative Summit.
“F*** you,” the protester, who is reportedly tied to the leftist group antifa, said in the video.
“You want some? You want some?” he echoed as he shoved the attendee. “You better back your a** up.”
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“Back inside, loser,” another person can be heard repeatedly shouting off-camera.
“Your man came over and f***** with him,” a third man said, defending the shoving. “Watch your man and shut the f*** up,” he instructed an attendee who was attempting to resolve the situation.
Antifa violently confronted a purported attendee of the Western Conservative Conference in downtown Denver. The antifa gathered & waited for attendees who were leaving the Hyatt Regency. (I am speaking there.) Video by @ElijahSchaffer: pic.twitter.com/m2tBMPjDri
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 19, 2021
A man named Leonne, who would not give his last name (“like Cher,” he said) and said that he somewhere between 20 and 40 years old, told the Washington Examiner that he was “first and foremost” protesting “that a place like this,” the Hyatt in downtown Denver, “lets a conference like this happen, that accepts money from these sorts of people.”
“They’re known Nazi sympathizers. They sit at the tables with people like Proud Boys,” Leonne said.
Another member of the group who refused to give a name said, “This is called ‘Frontier Freedom,’ but y’all are on stolen indigenous land. And it’s on Juneteenth, and I particularly find that distasteful.”
Videos recorded earlier in the day show more clashes between the two groups.
At one point, there was a brawl after an outsider started to film the demonstrators and one man knocked his phone out of his hand.
First part of vid — bearded man in brawl had his phone smacked out of his hand pic.twitter.com/qbaaOmipKV
— Emily Brooks (@emilyelarsen) June 19, 2021
“This is what happens,” allies of the antifa chapter can be heard shouting in the background.
DENVER: antifa protestors are now harassing guests inside the hotel at the Western Conservative summit, flipping them off, being lead by a very large woman on a megaphone pic.twitter.com/nWSNY4JQrX
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) June 19, 2021
DENVER: antifa command hotel guests sympathetic w/ their cause to “pee on the floor” of the hotel because they “host Nazi’s”
These are the people MSNBC called heroic pic.twitter.com/DjFqbIBEbo
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) June 19, 2021
When Washington Examiner commentary writer Tiana Lowe tried to film the gathering, various members of the group targeted her with green and white lasers intended to burn her retinas and break her phone camera.
Later in the evening, about 10 Denver police officers in riot gear alternated between standing inside the conference hotel and facing off with the demonstrators.
DENVER: heavy law enforcement presence outside of the Western Conservative Summit as antifa pre-organized violent assaults against conference attendees on @Facebook
While tech companies took no action to prevent the targeted violence, law enforcement took it seriously pic.twitter.com/coRad2NW54
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) June 19, 2021
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The protesters were reportedly organized via a Facebook event page, and fliers were also passed around the community.
A flyer from the Denver Communists distributed at the event read, “We want to send these worms back into their holes, demoralized and isolated.”
Flyer from the Denver Communists protesting outside the Western Conservative Summit. “Our general approach is to outnumber and outshine the far right … We want to send these worms back into their holes, demoralized and isolated” pic.twitter.com/COTj0zvhW6
— Emily Brooks (@emilyelarsen) June 19, 2021
A Facebook event page, titled “Western BLM-Antifa Summit,” will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center Saturday by the Denver Communists, Anti-Repression Colorado, and several others.
The event will feature “two days of fiercely jubilant opposition to the Western Conservative Summit” according to its summary, which it calls a “far-right gathering” and a “breeding ground of fascist networking & propanganda.”
“We must fight fascism now or we are doomed to fight a stronger version of it in the future!” the event specifically states, calling for “additional partners … to get involved.”
