there's little way to know what's real anymore and what's not but things like this seem to promise more of the same with little hope for an honest government or police force;

Aurora, CO — Imagine for a moment that a handful of “bad apple” police officers attacked, choked, and forcibly drugged an innocent pillar of the community as he walked home from the store — killing him. Imagine that we are told these cops committed no crime when they attacked this innocent man and killed him. Then, imagine after cops got away with killing him, other cops went back to the scene to re-enact the killing, while taking pictures to mock his death. Imagine that people then become very upset and demand a stop to this police brutality and above the law murderous mentality. And, while these people are in the streets to demand cops stop killing innocent people, imagine they are arrested for it and face insanely long prison sentences as a result — as the killer cops walk free.

There is no need to imagine this, because it is exactly what happened in Aurora, Colorado.

Several protesters — who never harmed anyone, destroyed no property, and advocated no violence — are staring down the possibility of decades in prison for protesting the lack of charges for the cops who killed Elijah McClain as well as the other cops who mocked his death.

Though hundreds of people have been arrested for their role in protests, Joel Northam, 33, and Lillian House, 26, are seeing the extreme end of these arrests.

“I’m facing as many as 48 years in prison,” said House, an organizer in Denver and one of the six activists arrested and charged in September of last year. According to arrest documents, they were arrested in connection with crimes committed during June and July protests in Aurora – protests House and Northam contend were peaceful, 9 News reported.........read more.......