Man shot during demonstration over conquistador statue in New Mexico

[pamela]

Source: NBC

A man was shot Monday evening at a demonstration where protesters planned to topple a conquistador's statue in Albuquerque, New Mexico, authorities said.

It wasn't immediately clear who had been shot. Albuquerque police said in a statement that one person had been taken to a hospital in critical condition but that there were no other injuries.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-shot-during-demonstration-over-conquistador-statue-new-mexico-n1231140

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Reports on Twitter that there was a right-wing armed militia group there "protecting" the statues and one of them shot a protester.

[EarnestPutz]

1. If there was a right-wing armed militia group there, I'm sure that they were...

....just trying to protect our American heritage and the importance of remembering Conquistadors.

[EarnestPutz]

3. Whoops. My bad.

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I wrote the first line of this response after only reading the first line of your response. Then I looked up and saw the rest of your response, which wasn't funny but unkind. Why would you post something like this? Chill. Or at least take a moment to consider the important place that conquistadors hold in our history and recognize satire without an emoji to help you out.

[PSPS]

4. All of this is flourishing in the atmosphere inspired by trump

[ucrdem]

5. The social fabric is unraveling fast.

I hope we make it to November 3 without something worse than we've already seen

[yaesu]

6. video of the actual shooting tweeted by a reporter, looks like protesters chased the

nmcg guy for some reason, attacked him and he drew his pistol.

Link to tweet

[sarisataka]

14. He will go free

If the video is authentic.

[yaesu]

15. it looks authentic but nowdays who know, the account seems legit. He may claim self defense

and will probably escape the more serious charges, New Mexico is the type of stand your ground state where you do not have a duty to retreat. You don't have to retreat, but if you don't, the DA may decide to prosecute, and the judge/jury may decide to convict. He tried to retreat so it may protect him.

[sarisataka]

16. I am leery of Twitter as a source

Having seen many get burned.

The man in the video did retreat from the crowd after an initial assault. He was followed a assaulted by multiple people.

He could be charged if he initiated something in the crowd but the shooting is going to be self defense.

[duhneece]

19. But NM also has law that you can't claim self defense if you were violent first.

Video shows shooter pushed a woman to the ground before the shooting

[Polybius]

21. It's hard to see

But it looks like he or she chased and touched him first.

[duhneece]

22. The video I saw he comes up behind her

And pulls her violently to the ground.

[yaesu]

24. yeah, i figured from the protesters response that he pulled something iike that, and it seems

that the protesters were calling for the cops to stop the guy.

[duhneece]

18. Crap... I haven't learned to post videos

But I have a video of the shooter pulling/pushing a woman protester to the ground prior to the protesters chasing him and one can hear them say, “Get his license plate number.”

[raccoon]

7. Lock his ass up! Lock him up! NT

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Police detain armed militia members after man is shot at Albuquerque protest

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/16/albuquerque-militia-shooting-protest/


Albuquerque police detain members of the New Mexico Civil Guard, an armed civilian group, following the shooting of a man during a protest over a statue of Spanish conquerer Juan de Oñate on Monday in Albuquerque. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/AP)

By Katie Shepherd
June 16, 2020 at 5:42 a.m. EDT

Protesters in Albuquerque wrapped a chain around the neck of a bronze statue and began tugging, chanting, “Tear it down,” shortly before sunset on Monday. Their efforts to pull down a monument of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate suddenly stopped as four shots rang out.

Most people instinctively turned toward the noise, videos from the scene show. A few screamed. Just yards away, a group of militia men sporting militarylike garb and carrying semiautomatic rifles formed a protective circle around the gunman.

The gunshots, which left one man in critical but stable condition, have set off a cascade of public outcry denouncing the unregulated militia’s presence and the shooting, although police have yet to announce an arrest or describe exactly what happened. The victim is also unidentified.

“The heavily armed individuals who flaunted themselves at the protest, calling themselves a ‘civil guard,’ were there for one reason: To menace protesters, to present an unsanctioned show of unregulated force,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) said in a statement. “To menace the people of New Mexico with weaponry — with an implicit threat of violence — is on its face unacceptable; that violence did indeed occur is unspeakable.”

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Wow! THAT'S a photo of strange juxtaposition.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Armed rightwingers arresting armed rightwingers? True!!

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. I was thinking real law enforcement arresting Walmart camo wannabes.

Also, I don't believe the Albuquque police are particularly right wing, at least the ones I've heard about.

[EX500rider]

12. How do you know what "wing" the Albuquerque SWAT team is? nt

[Jedi Guy]

20. Because all police are knuckle-dragging right-wing monsters, of course. N/T

[Mosby]

13. What is that foil thing around the guys neck?

[Dennis Donovan]

17. Not sure, maybe it was in his pants before?

[Steelrolled]

23. People coming out looking for a fight. Tribalism pure and simple.