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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017
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City and
County of Denver
Mayor
Michael B. Hancock
Amber Miller,
Communications Director
Jenna
Espinoza, Deputy Communications Director
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720.865.9044
Mayor Hancock Statement on Demonstrations Against
Violence in Charlottesville, VA
DENVER – Mayor Michael B. Hancock today
released a statement in support of the nationwide demonstrations against the
violence in Charlottesville, Virginia -- denouncing hate and promoting
solidarity.
“I applaud the true Americans all across our country who
have stood up, marched and denounced the hateful messages and violence of
wrong-minded people. Once again, Denver and Colorado choose to stand on the
right side of history and state irrevocably that we will never accept this resurgence
of intolerance, hate and now violence in our community, or any community, in
this great nation. While some seek to poison our national discourse and pit
neighbor against neighbor, Denver will remain on the side of righteousness
and the belief that there is unbound strength in the diversity and pluralism
underpinning our American exceptionalism. And we will continue to stand
steadfast and united against those that seek to divide us.
“President Trump’s equivocation in response to the recent
tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia is nothing short of a tacit condoning of
those who have been emboldened by his rhetoric. I – and all decent Americans
– have one demand of the President: plainly and without qualification condemn
and disavow these actions of bigotry, white supremacy and domestic terrorism
once and for all as anathema to the very core of our American ideals. And
cast these fringe fanatics back to the fringes where they belong.”
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
Denver Mayor - Press release
