DailyMail | A tense standoff between Occupy Denver protesters and authorities near the Colorado Capitol erupted Saturday with a surge of demonstrators being met with police force that included pepper spray and rubber bullets.
The clash came as Occupy Wall Street protesters and state officials in Tennessee squared off for a third consecutive night Saturday, even though a local judge has refused to jail demonstrators who have been arrested and said the state lacks the authority to set a curfew on the property.
In Denver, some supporters of the Occupy movement, marching with a group of about 2,000, tried to advance up the Capitol steps.
In San Diego, police arrested a similar number of people who occupied the Civic Center Plaza and Children's Park for three weeks.
In Nashville, magistrate Tom Nelson has said there's no legal reason to keep demonstrators who have been arrested behind bars and he has released them after each arrest.
He has refused each night to sign off on arrest warrants for more than two dozen people taken into custody.
Protesters were galvanized by the friction between state officials and Nelson.
'My heart has been here all along, but the arrests gave me the momentum to come," said Vicki Metzgar, 61, director of a Nashville Public Schools science and math initiative who joined the protests Saturday.
'This plaza belongs to us, not the politicians.'
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