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Demonstrators are planning to gather tonight in Colorado City, Ariz., to protest what they consider corruption in town governments.
The protest is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Utah time at corner of Central Street and Township Avenue. It's the first protest in recent memory in Colorado City and adjacent Hildale, Utah, collectively known as Short Creek. The towns are home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
A Facebook page announcing the protest lists multiple grievances, but specifically cites the arrests earlier this month of two men at an old zoo in Colorado City. One of the men had a lease for the property, but town marshals said someone was living in a building and had a claim to the property. The leaseholder and a man with him were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor trespassing twice in the same week.
An attorney for the marshals defended the arrests, saying the men had every opportunity to leave but appeared to want to be arrested.
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