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http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/11/occupy_denver_thanksgiving_police_chase.php

Occupy Denver: Woman leads police on a chase to donate food on
Thanksgiving

By Kelsey Whipple
Fri., Nov. 25 2011 at 10:15 AM
​Depending upon what you'd expect of a Thanksgiving spent with Occupy
Denver in the Angriest City in America, you might or might not be
surprised to learn that it involved a short (but sweet) police chase.

Because of the recent trend in officers ticketing those who honk or
stop in front of the occupation at Civic Center Park, quite a few
people are wary of repeating the offense. One woman, however, doesn't
give a flying flip about getting a ticket -- so she took on the
police.


The whole thing went down at about 12:30 yesterday afternoon, when a
lone donation ranger attempted to stop in front of the occupation to
drop off Thanksgiving food to the gathering outside. Worried that she,
like a very generous handful of others, might receive a $130 ticket
for impeding traffic for her efforts, protesters tried to wave her
around the corner, where they would walk to her, grab the donations
and walk them back to camp. (This has since become the new policy for
donations.) But the woman wasn't having it.

If you'd prefer to hear the story on YouTube instead, watch the video
below:



Instead, protesters on the ground say she knowingly pulled a full stop
-- and made a statement. The woman, whose name has not yet been
released for her protection, pulled up in front of the camp, only to
immediately be greeted by three police cars on her tail. The area is
consistently monitored by at least three police cars on a daily basis,
and any actions are quickly spotted by the group's DPD bodyguards.
Again, though, the woman's answer was something akin to, "Ahhh, hell
no."

Instead of taking a ticket quietly, she put her pedal to the metal and
sped around the block, turning left on 14th, left on Colfax and back
onto Broadway before she kept driving and then eventually parked down
the street in front of the main library. At this point, awed
protesters came to meet her and surrounded her car to block it from
potential police intervention, says David "Beard," a former Westword
profile subject whose last name has been withheld by request. "It was
unbelievable," he says. "We had no idea what to do."

At this point, the story begins to die down. During the sound of
cheers in the park, with at least twenty protesters gathered around
her, she got off scot-free, at least for the time being. Because the
event was captured on several camera phones, and her license plates
were open to view from the police, she might be in line for one soon.
In the meantime, the story developed into something of a holiday
legend as the day progressed.

Early that morning, at about 12:30 a.m., the group experienced a
different parking situation, this time the presence of an entire line
of cars parked in front of Civic Center Park together in hopes that
police couldn't ticket them all. The first round of food donations was
captured in the video below (and again, no one was ticketed -- at
least not yet):

Overall, Thanksgiving came in many forms for the occupiers, who were
greeted by consistent rounds of food donations (though usually less
animated) throughout the day. In the afternoon, two large luxury buses
parked in front of Civic Center Park (again without a ticket) to pick
up a large load of occupiers and transport them to the Absolute Word
Church for a gospel service and a heavy turkey dinner. In the
afternoon, a group of local donors gave their Thanksgiving leftovers
to the occupiers.