Free range activist and Grandmother to the unhoused Regan Benson went live multiple times on Wednesday with her first public comments about the trespassing charges she picked up at Monday’s Englewood City Council Meeting and sharing the news that she did not lose her current job because of it.
Benson’s first live of the day saw her in Englewood showing off the fact that her SUV was filled with bagged lunches and water bottles to hand out to homeless individuals in the Englewood area.
Despite never showing this part of her work before, especially in the Englewood area, Benson explained that she was working with Movement 5280, who provided her with the lunches, and would be handing out lunches in the area that afternoon.
She made a point that she could not take the lunches to Englewood’s civic center, her previous base of operations due to it containing both the local court system and library, along with the city council chambers, due to the fact that she was banned from the entire building for 90 days.
At the end of the three-hour livestream, Benson gave an impassioned speech about how if anything happened to her husband, she would likely fall into homelessness as her current job was not enough to support herself and maintain her lifestyle.
She shared that she was not accepted (previously stating she was “fired”) from two positions as she did not pass criminal background checks due to her recent conviction for doxing a police officer.
Benson indicated that this was the type of problems homeless individuals face as they often have minor criminal convictions on their records related to being unhoused that prevent them from being hired to a lot of jobs in the area.
She praised her current job for standing by her and noted that she had permission to be late Monday night due to her on-going activism. She vowed to fight against the charges, despite being financially “broke.”
The grandmother also shared her imagined story of how she would likely fall into alcoholism and drug addictions should she become homeless and be another life in turmoil without anyone to turn to on the streets.
Benson’s second livestream went a more merciful 19 minutes and featured her going live from a police encounter with an unhoused person at a bus stop in Englewood. Benson’s microphone did not pick up her remarks to the police officers for the first six minutes of the livestream and remained distorted for the remainder of the video.
The YouTuber said the subject of the video, an unidentified homeless man supposedly told Benson to “get the [expletive redacted] away from him” before he was given a ticket. According to Benson, the police were responding to a warrant the man had for missing a court date earlier on Wednesday.
Benson ignored complaints from her chat that she was having severe audio problems during the livestream by blaming YouTube for purposely distorting the audio of livestreams. It is noted that her audio was not in synch for her earlier livestream.
The livestream abruptly ended before the 20-minute mark.
Benson would go on to share on her YouTube community page Thursday morning that she was not selected for a position on Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board (COB). The nine-person board was created in 2024 and assesses the effectiveness of the Denver Department of Public Safety’s hiring, training and disciplinary processes.
She wrote:
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Well this is shocking. What I do wrong? I waited a loooooong time for this answer.
I didn’t get appointed to the citizen oversight board by Denver Mayor Mikey. I thought he was on the side of the people? Like, my side. My goodness, was I ever wrong about that! Turns out he’s on the side of the dirty lying cops.
WHO KNEW!?
The Denver citizen oversight board is civilian oversight in the operations of the independent monitor. The independent monitor provides civilian oversight of internal investigations and OIS conducted by sworn law enforcement in Denver.
Like, you know, when they investigate themselves and say they did everything right.
Unfortunately , the independent monitor has zero power to hold dirty lying cops accountable.
So overall, I’d be wasting my time. However, the conversations you know, I would have made FANTASTIC! I’m a well rounded conversationalist.
Oh well. Another loss for the people and win for the government to silence me. What’s new.
This is a continuing news story.
