On March 7, authorities in Boulder held a virtual press conference to outline how a party the previous day in the Hill neighborhood managed to spin so far out of control. At least three SWAT officers were injured and multiple vehicles were damaged, including one turned over by members of the throng.
Included in the information shared by officials was a timeline of events, which appear to have started merely as a way to blow off steam on a beautiful Colorado day, pandemic be damned. But there was also plenty of tough talk about planned prosecution and even some ass-covering for mistakes made along the way — such as the University of Colorado Boulder (which returned to in-person learning on February 15) sending out an alert early in the melee with the subject line "RUN HIDE FIGHT."