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Activists show anger, peacefully, at police response to inland port protest

Two weeks after protesters and Salt Lake City police clashed in the offices of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, some of those same protesters went to police headquarters to peacefully express their anger and solidarity.

A group of more than 60 protesters gathered in the plaza outside the Public Safety Building on Tuesday evening. They called for action against officers who used, in the words of protester Deb Blake, “state-sanctioned violence” to remove 150 people engaging in civil disobedience in the Salt Lake City Chamber offices July 9.

“When peaceful protesters are under attack, what do we do?