Denver woke up Friday to piles and piles of trash covering Civic Center the morning after the annual 4/20 rally downtown.
The garbage was mostly strewn around trash cans and appeared to have been pulled out of bags and boxes that had been emptied and tossed aside.
Dawnarie Brook's has been cleaning the park this morning. She was at the #denver420 rally & said the park wasn't trashed when she left pic.twitter.com/TJkuYD6eVG
— Danika Worthington (@Dani_Worth) April 21, 2017
Rally organizer Miguel Lopez said volunteers were cleaning up the area around 10:30 p.m. Thursday night when a man went through the park, tearing up trash bags. When volunteers confronted him, Lopez said the man threatened them with a knife.
Denver wakes up to Civic Center Park covered in piles of trash after 4/20 rally https://t.co/cyT6FeeMbx pic.twitter.com/tzvdiBMrNf
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) April 21, 2017
Organizers came back Friday to finish cleaning, he said. Their permit expires at 11:59 p.m., city parks officials said.
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