Yahn Dawn II - Cop Monitoring
Hey everyone, hope we're all is excited for our return to Meadow Creek this year!
I wanted to touch base with the community in regards to the recent events at Field Of Vision last weekend. Things were weird. Really weird.
Chaffee County Sheriff's Office seemingly engaged in a prejudiced, targeted drug enforcement operation against the guests of the festival. I've collected statements and reports from over fifty people so far who were detained, ticketed, or arrested by police at all hours of the day/night. There were campground raids, warrantless searches, coercive detainment interrogations, frivolous tickets like "Public Intoxication" after admitting to substance consumption while under duress, and more.
I'm currently collecting as much detailed information as I can on this situation, and so I'm coming here both to inform the Yahn Dawn community of the police risk this year and to ask you all to collect as much video evidence as you can of any police interactions this year.
See a camp get raided, a guest getting arrested or detained, any personal, vehicle, or camp searches, ANYTHING that looks like police overreach, record it and send it to me.
If you experience anything that resembles what I've described here, send me your case number and the identification of the arresting/ticketing officers and I'll pull their body cam data after the event concludes.
Based on the contentious city council meetings last year, the verbal discussions I heard from police this year, and the massive public record of overreach coming from guests at FOV, I believe we're looking at a massive constitutional violation from the CCSO intended to punish the venue and the festivals for having anti-police sentiments.
BE SMART, BE SAFE!!