A destructive march by anarchists leads to mayhem and a standoff in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day,

While rumors are flying that there could soon be more sweeps of the homeless in Denver, two court cases filed against the city late last year are slowly working their way through the county and federal judicial systems. In anticipation of upcoming developments, we’ve put together a reminder of what the cases are about, why they’re important, and where they stand.

By mid afternoon on Thursday, January 19, the mood in Washington, D.C., had shifted….and not in a good way. People were on edge. The radical left was getting paranoid. The alt-right was acting emboldened. And the vast majority of reasonable and empathetic people in between are totally at the mercy…

There were no arrests made in Washington, D.C. during President Barack Obama’s first inaugural address in 2009. That will not be the case this year, and Denver attorney Jason Flores-Williams has promised to arrest some of the activists who’ll be arrested pro bono.

Chris Walker is in Washington, D.C., covering events around the inauguration — and keeping an eye on Westword cover boy Jason Flores-Williams, who promises to be in the thick of the action.  Here’s Walker’s first dispatch.

The Denver Police Department is gathering intelligence on activists around town — and there’s good reason for that concern. Not only have police officers been paying close attention to social-media posts, but in early 2016 the department purchased subscriptions to a powerful social-media monitoring tool called Geofeedia, which was used by law enforcement agencies across the country to monitor protests and other actions.

It’s going to get heavy. We all know it. We’re not sure how, and we’re not sure when. But the events taking place in Washington, D.C., this coming week are going to unfold like the plot of a paperback thriller. The protagonist would have it no other way. Whether you love him or hate him, Donald J. Trump’s inauguration will be historic. And Westword will be on hand to cover the chaos.

We’ll be entering a new era on January 20, when Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States at his inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C. Although most of the action will be in the nation’s capitol, Denver will also have plenty of inauguration-related events.