By Matt Vincent, BASS Times Editor

On the streets of Denver, where Doc Holiday once sought refuge, the same ground where a gold strike once changed the course of American history, SWAT teams stand ready.

Armed with AR-15s and canisters of pepper spray, they watch from behind dark sunglasses. Some pose for photographs with visitors to Democratic National Convention, proof for their friends back in Iowa and Michigan that they, too, roamed the streets of Denver alongside heavily armed cops and the Secret Service. Proof that fear lurks somewhere in the dark alleys of Denver. Proof that heads will be broken and busted if you step out of line in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave...

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