City of Denver crews covered up graffiti on the front of the ink! Coffee shop in Five Points as anti-gentrification protesters looked on Friday afternoon. The red-brown paint quickly obscured black letters reading “white coffee” as a worker rolled it onto the storefront under the watch of a Denver police officer.

For the protesters, ink’s most recent ad campaign – a sandwich board sign reading “Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014” that set off a social media firestorm Wednesday after being spotted outside the business and may have motivated the building’s vandalism that night- will not be so easily erased.

“There is nothing funny about what these folks did,” Five Points resident Musa Bailey said of the sign ink later called a bad joke in an apology shared on social media. “If you don’t understand the weight of that word in this neighborhood, we don’t want you down here.”

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