Category: Members

Mark Mallen lives in Boulder, Colorado, is the owner of Glacier Ice Cream and Rocket CBD, and is a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

Andrew Rice lives in Boulder, Colorado, is the owner of Colorado Design Group, and is a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

“Btw if you’ve got lady parts and you chow box you’re a straight up lesbian”

Katie Lehr lives in Boulder, Colorado, is a co-owner of Jamey Valentine Construction, is a former spokesperson for the Boulder Builders’ Association, and is a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

Zack Finger runs the anti-homeless Facebook Page “Boulder On blast” and owns Last Chair Customs. Zack is not a member of Safer Boulder but his page is popular among members of Safer Boulder.

Elaine Dannemiller lives in Boulder, Colorado, is a self-employed graphic designer, an outspoken opponent of the youth-centered homelessness non-profit Attention Homes, and is a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

“My husband said- we should put flood lights right on top of them, reeeaally bright lights”

Katharine Hauge is a physical therapist practicing at Functional Fitness in Boulder, Colorado and a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

Katharine’s engagement on the leaked Safer Boulder Slack team is somewhat limited, but in her few posts she has defended a police officer involved in multiple use of force scandals and endorsed torturous techniques against people experiencing homelessness.

Excusing Police Brutality

On July 25, 2020, Katharine wrote a post defending former Boulder Police officer Waylon Lolotai who joined the Boulder Police Department after being placed on administrative leave by the Denver Sheriff’s Department for pushing an inmate into a flight of stairs while his back was turned. In the instance Katharine is referring to, Sammie Lawrence, a Black man with a walking stick, was filming Officer Lolotai during an engagement with a group of people experiencing homelessness in Boulder, Sammie was ordered to drop his walking aid and step back. When Sammie continued to film and use his walking aid, he was tackled by Officer Lolotai and arrested. Officer Lolotai recently resigned from the Boulder Police Department after accruing several more notable excessive force complaints and had his Instagram account scrutinized which featured memes and posts that glamorized police brutality against citizens and journalists.

Violence Against The Poor

In a hypothetical example identical to Sammie Lawrence’s case, Todd Root proposed duct taping someone practicing their First Amendment right to film the police and placing them next to a five gallon bucket of feces. Katharine gave this suggestion a Thumbs Up reaction.

On August 20th, 2020, Craig Book, Todd, and Katharine Hauge brainstormed methods of physically attacking a homeless encampment downtown, from shooting them with rubber bullets, to starving them, to using a torture technique employed at Guantanamo Bay.

On September 15th, Katharine Hauge wrote a post praising Safer Boulder on Facebook with the implication that she is simply a causal onlooker of their work, and not an active member of the group.

 

“As the aggressor, I catch them off guard every time.”

Shirley Anne Frewin lives in Gunbarrel, Colorado and is a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

Shirley has used Safer Boulder to advocate violence against people experiencing homelessness, brag about harassing people she believes are homeless, and obsess about “meth heads”

“They assault our friends, steal our bikes and cars, break into our houses, sell drugs to our kids… “

Peggy Sands is an artist in Boulder, Colorado, worked on Boulder City Council member Mark Wallach’s campaign, and a is member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

Peggy helped build one of Safer Boulder’s websites, though it never got off the ground.

On the transients page, Peggy describes people experiencing homelessness as “like locusts”.

The bottom of the “Transients” page has some notes for future content.

On July 7th, a community member spoke against Safer Boulder at Boulder City Council’s public comment section. In retaliation to these comments, Peggy posted that speakers home address, phone number, and age to the rest of the group.

In an email to Boulder City Council member Bob Yates, Peggy writes that 80% of people experiencing homelessness in Boulder are meth addicts and describes them as a “contamination vector”. The 80% figure Peggy is referencing an anecdotal estimate from Boulder Police’s Homeless Outreach Team about the amount of meth use they see in the subset of the population they engage with. Peggy goes on to ask Mr. Yates not to share her email because she doesn’t “want the flack”.

Peggy claims to have worked on Council member Mark Wallach’s campaign. Mark has reliably voted against measures that would help people experiencing homelessness.

 

Brooke Harrison lives in Boulder, Colorado, works as the Therapy Area Director at Oncology Resource Group, sits on the Boulder Police Department’s Community Dialogue and Engagement Panel, and is a leading member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder.

“Since Giuliani’s “broken windows” policies were enacted, crime, public harassment, and safety drastically improved.”

Steven Rosenblum lives in Boulder, Colorado, is the Managing Director at the investment firm Gentrust, and is a member of the anti-homeless group Safer Boulder where he acts as a liason between the Boulder Police Department.