{"id":1320320,"date":"2020-06-03T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=478848"},"modified":"2020-06-03T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:39:14","slug":"peaceful-protest-in-support-of-black-lives-matter-planned-tonight-in-vail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/peaceful-protest-in-support-of-black-lives-matter-planned-tonight-in-vail\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful protest in support of Black Lives Matter planned tonight in Vail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the announcement of the Vail Valley Peace March planned in support of Black Lives Matter \u2014 slated for tonight at 6 p.m. starting at the Covered Bridge in Vail \u2014 organizer Carrie Unthank Ruedisueli acknowledged that Eagle County is pretty far removed from the uprisings happening in metropolitan areas nationwide in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t mean local residents should be consigned to complacence, she argues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is for those of you who feel a little too quiet and cozy up here in our privileged bubble at a time like this, those of you who want to show recognition to the good cops with our local police force, those\u00a0of you who want accountability held for any discrimination or corruption of any kind in the justice system by setting a standard, and most importantly those of you who want to send a message to the black community in our country that we hear their pain and our community stands with them with deep respect, strongly against racism,\u201d reads her Facebook announcement.<\/p>\n<p>In response, local law enforcement officers including representatives from the Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Avon Police Department, Eagle Police Department, and Vail Police Department have accepted the invitation to participate in the march.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-facebook\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v7.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VailPD\/posts\/4014864978554360?tn=K-R\" data-width=\"500\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VailPD\/posts\/4014864978554360\"><p>A Letter from the Eagle County Law Enforcement Eagle County Community, eight minutes and forty-six seconds. That&#8217;s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VailPD\/\">Vail Police Department<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VailPD\/posts\/4014864978554360\">Wednesday, June 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe as the law enforcement community were shocked and appalled by the treatment of Mr. Floyd. It goes against all our training,\u201d said Sheriff James van Beek in an interview Wednesday morning. \u201cAll of us view what happened as a criminal act. It was gross negligence at the very least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With national outrage over the incident spreading to the Vail Valley, van Beek said local law enforcement wants to capitalize on the long-standing relationships officers forged with community members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt that we have worked very hard in this valley, as law enforcement, with community residents to really build bridges,\u201d he said. \u201cThis incident really makes us all realize we haven\u2019t come as far as we think we have. We need to continue to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expectations for tonight\u2019s march are clear. Voices are welcome, violence is not. Ruedisueli specified that protesters are encouraged to bring signs and in this age of COVID-19, everyone is encouraged to wear masks and maintain social distancing. Children are welcome to participate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gathering is about using our voices in unity and should be a peaceful demonstration of love to all races and walks of life,\u201d Ruedisueli stated.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s march is the second march this week in Vail. On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-2XsXgOIe8\">a crowd off around 50 people <\/a>participated in a march organized by Zack Varon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/peaceful-protest-in-support-of-black-lives-matter-planned-tonight-in-vail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the announcement of the Vail Valley Peace March planned in support of Black Lives Matter \u2014 slated for tonight at 6 p.m. starting at the Covered Bridge in Vail \u2014 organizer Carrie Unthank Ruedisueli acknowledged that Eagle County is pretty far removed from the uprisings happening in metropolitan areas nationwide in the wake of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 20:08:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320321,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320320\/revisions\/1320321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}