Protestors surround police station, chain doors, lock officers inside for 7 hours.

Cans of gasoline found outside.

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On the eve of the Fourth of July, police officers were said to have been trapped for about seven hours after protesters decided to imprison police inside of their own precinct.

Aurora Police Department spokesperson Matthew Longshore spoke about the riotous acts:

“The unfortunate part is they trapped our officers inside, not just them being around the building, but physically wrapping ropes and other items around the doors of the district one station, around the entry exit gates our patrol cars come out of…that was probably the most dangerous part.”

Department officials wouldn’t confirm the exact number of officers that were held captive within District 1. However, sources say that officers were able to be freed from the police station at around 3:30 a.m. on July 4th after the multi-hour detainment.

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According to Longshore, there wasn’t any urgency to free the officers from the station, citing that they wanted to allow protesters to voice their opinions:

“There wasn’t a rush to come in move people out. The officers were safe inside. We wanted to give the people the ability to express their First Amendment right, to protest, peacefully assemble and make their voices heard, so we didn’t have an immediate rush to go in and clear people out. Waiting a little bit longer, the crowd size became smaller, so we had an advantage.”

While officers were said to have been relatively safe while confined inside of the station, criminal activity was said to be rife within the demonstration outside of the station. Longshore noted the weapons and materials used within the area while officers worked to clear out the demonstrators: “We found gas cans, full of gasoline that were staged in that immediate area.”

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The presence of gas was particularly concerning since there were fireworks being directed at officers outside the precinct during the evening. Longshore delved into further detail about the aggressive tactics and stances presented by the rioters:

“Not only that, someone had a fire extinguisher, they were spraying our officers with a fire extinguisher. We didn’t use any force until they started doing it to us, that’s when we used 40 millimeter foam rounds, no pepper spray or tear gas or smoke.”

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I really don’t know what more I can say about this but there is such an absurd weakness in all of this that it kind of just makes you sick to your stomach that this is the actual reality of life we are living now, where officials are allowing cops to be trapped in a building instead of doing their job.

I suppose there’s a very real metaphor to be had here in the chains trapping the officers in the building and the chains liberal officials are using to keep the police from doing their actual jobs now. It’s only a matter of time before one of these incidents go horribly wrong, and then everyone’s going to be real sorry.