Eleven people were arrested in downtown Denver during a wave of secondary marches after the afternoon’s main “No Kings” protest disbanded, police said.

A group of protesters marching west on Sixth Avenue through traffic at about 6:45 p.m. Saturday tried to access Interstate 25 near Santa Fe Drive, a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department said in an email to The Denver Post.

Denver officers made several loudspeaker announcements declaring the march an unlawful assembly and ordering the group to disperse, the spokesperson said.

After an unspecified amount of time, officers deployed smoke to scatter the crowd and arrested three people on suspicion of unreleased charges, according to the department. Officials denied using other means to disperse protesters, including firing pepper

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