Upwards of 100 people gathered outside of the RiNo nightclub Cold Crush on Monday evening in a showing of support for the establishment, which effectively was shut down by the Denver Police Department following the shooting of Aurora rapper Boss Goodie outside the venue last week.

Tealight candles weighed down pictures of the rapper on a table near the scene of the shooting, just off the sidewalk on 27th Street.

The club organized the rally in part to film a public service announcement video for Cold Crush, which will contest the public nuisance notice the police department posted on its door Thursday.

“Some people think this is a horrible place to be,” said Cold Crush owner Brian Mathenge, who ambled genially throughout the crowd in a Cold Crush hoodie. “I want to show the public and the media that Cold Crush is more than a black bar or a hip-hop club — it’s a community.”

At 6 p.m., Cold Crush’s DJ Musa asked that those who wanted to be in the video pick three words to describe the venue and speak about the club in their own words for 30 seconds.

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To be sure, a handful of Denver music and club figures did make an appearance. Award-winning DJ Squizzy Taylor, who used to perform on Sundays at the club, was on hand to voice his support.

“White, black, Hispanic … it was the one place that I know that everybody came to,” Taylor said. “It showed the power of music.”

Hayden Meier, owner of LoDo nightclub Epernay Lounge, also showed up. Meier, who has managed Epernay since 2013, said that the police’s ability to close a nightclub unilaterally was something that all club owners fear, but hinted that Cold Crush’s reputation as a hip-hop club could have worked against it.

“There’s a stigma on certain music that played,” Meier said.

Cold Crush patron Ashleigh Blair, 27, who’s been to Cold Crush “almost every weekend” since she moved to Denver from Pittsburgh this summer, said she thought the club had been targeted because it’s a black-owned business.

“There needs to be more black-owned locations like (Cold Crush),” Blair said. “Not less.”