Denver • For more than four hours on a weekday, three Denver activists sat in the lobby of the city’s downtown jail waiting for seven men — all strangers — to walk out from behind bars.
The activists, who are members of The Denver Justice Project and Black Lives Matter 5280, had paid the men’s bonds as part of their Juneteenth/Father’s Day Bail Out. The bail money was posted as a gift with no questions asked and with the trust that the men would return to court to face their criminal charges.
“It’s the human thing to do,” said Vincent Bowen, a volunteer with Black Lives Matter 5280.