“More arrests are expected as a result of pro-police rally that devolved into a brawl near Fort Collins Police Services headquarters Saturday, Fort Collins Police Chief Jeff Swoboda said” reports the Coloradoan. “The event — a Defend the Police rally organized by Northern Colorado Young Republicans — started with police supporters lining up in front of the police department along Nancy Gray Avenue around 3 p.m. Not long after, it ended in three arrests and one citation after rally attendees and counter protesters converged during a fight in a nearby neighborhood.”
The article goes on to describe the experience of Wes Carter, a 73-year-old wheelchair-bound Air Force veteran, who had originally showed up to join the pro-police rally, but wheeled across the street to show solidarity with BLM as well, which apparently caused all hell to break loose. Carter carefully describes his intervention in a brawl between the parties there, and the presence of unknown agitators that incited the violence – an event immediately spun by MAGA Twitter as a BLM assault of disabled veteran and described by police as “people that were looking for a fight on both sides”, a characterization that Carter disputes in his account to the Coloradoan.