Denver Police to Lock Up DNC Detainees in Metal Cages

Forget watching the silly antics of the Democrat Convention. I'd rather see coverage of the theater of the absurd outside, as human debris of all kind gather to make a nuisance of themselves.

Now this news comes along showing how the scum that gets arrested could be warehoused in metal cages.

Oh, the humanity. Maybe with any luck we can get video access of what goes on in there as well.

Some protesters arrested at the Democratic National Convention could be jailed in a city-owned warehouse, complete with metal cages and barbed wire, CBS4 News has learned.

Investigative reporter Rick Sallinger discovered the location and managed to get inside Tuesday for a look. The newly created lockup, in a warehouse northeast of Denver, contains dozens of metal cages made of chain-link fence material, topped by rolls of barbed wire.

Each of these fenced-in areas is about 15 feet by 15 feet, with a lock on the door.

A sign on the wall reads "Warning, electric stun devices used in this facility."

Sallinger showed video of the warehouse to Adam Jung of Tent State University [Tent State? -ed.] and Zoe Williams of Code Pink, leaders of groups that plan to demonstrate during the convention. "This is very bare-bones and very reminiscent of a political prisoner camp or a concentration camp," Williams said.

"That's how you treat cattle," Jung said. "You showed the sign where it said stun gun in use. And you just change the word gun for bolt, and it's a meat-processing plant."

The Denver Sheriff's Department would not discuss the facility. Instead, the sheriff's department said late Tuesday the mayor's office would be releasing a statement about it early next week.

Nothing like overwrought hyperbole, comparing a possible arrest at a political convention with people who've suffered and died in real concentration camps.

Of course, these people don't give a shit about political prisoners in Communist countries. Why else would the leader of Code Pink have lived in Cuba?