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WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. – The Wheat Ridge Police Department, along with four other law enforcement agencies, broke up a massive street racing event that police said got out of hand Friday evening.
Police started getting reports of the gathering after the street racers began causing several traffic issues and accidents in the area of 44th Avenue and Kipling Street. They were also trying to close 44th Avenue to through traffic, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department.
The crowd, estimated at over 500 vehicles and more than 1,200 people, was becoming hostile toward police and were refusing to leave. At one point, police said, beer bottles were thrown toward a marked patrol car.
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