Burlington Police Chief Mike Schirling said on Thursday he has apologized to two Burlington residents who had complained about BPD officers telling them early last Saturday that “Church Street is shutting down” and ordering them to leave the Marketplace.
Craig Mitchell and Dennis Ailor (pictured) — the two men confronted by a pair of cops — say they were causing no disturbance and were simply chatting with one another in front of Red Square at about 2:15 a.m. on July 20. The officers implied they were enforcing a curfew on the Marketplace, both Mitchell and Ailor told Seven Days.
“I felt degraded and disrespected,” said Mitchell, who works as a DJ at Red Square. “I wasn’t causing a scene.”
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Does anyone else find it ironic that a bar called “Red Square” was the site of a repressive police presence?
typical of bored ass cops, harass and annoy, thats what they do
cops have been doing this for as long as i’ve been in burlington.
work of art;
send those officers to Chicago, that’s where they need a crack down, start with the mayors office
LMAO