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Five Denver police officers hit with insecticide hospitalized after trying to arrest assault suspect

Other police made the arrest

Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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An assault suspect facing arrest by Denver police officers Sunday countered by releasing a chemical believed to be insecticide — requiring two ambulances to carry five officers to a hospital.

Other police took the suspect into custody after the incident near 45th Avenue and Sable Street, a dispatcher said.

“Six were injured and they transported five to the hospital,” the dispatcher said. “It was like a Raid bomb, a product for fumigation.”

https://twitter.com/DenverPolice/status/1181043324125212673

The condition of the officers wasn’t determined as doctors checked them for possible harm from exposure to the chemicals.

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