It sounds like there's a coordinated effort to disrupt Bob Yates' talk at the Highland City Club. I can hear sirens, clanking and shouting in the background. And perhaps the slamming of doors.
I'd get down there, but I have support group after. And I have a feeling I'm going to need it.
Well, shit, I'm gonna have to go down there.
OK well they were gone by the time I got there. 2 cops on site talking with (presumably) 2 reps from Highland; 2 patrol vehicles, plus one around the corner on Arapahoe.

No arrests were made, an unidentified person said when I asked. (Actually, he said, "Of course not.")
No idea how many ppl were there; the reps refused to answer any questions. "We don't have time for this, we're very busy," one man said.
The protesters did get a shoutout from the organizers. "We just had some unexpected visitors," Douglas Gardner said, which shows the "passion" and "divisiveness" of the issue.
I am taking notes from the rest of the talk, just not tweeting.
I will make one more point: With Community Foundation's Tatiana Hernandez not here tonight, every single participant is white.

BIPOC are overwhelmingly overrepresented among the unhoused.
These are white people whose jobs don't involve working with the unhoused talking about how to solve things for the unhoused, many of whom are non-white.

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