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"The NMCG just gunned down someone in cold blood at a protest outside the Albuquerque Museum" [View all]
Last edited Tue Jun 16, 2020, 09:23 AM - Edit history (1)
Nick Estes @nick_w_estes · 9h
Some got shot in Abq by the fascist New Mexico Civil Guard shot someone.
Sorry for the typos. The NMCG just gunned down someone in cold blood at a protest outside the Albuquerque Museum.
This is the shooter. He said, “My father is the BCSO (Bernalillo County Sheriffs Office).”
Seconds after this guy shot into the crowd hitting one person (who is in bad condition), his fashy NMCG buddies surrounded him to protect him from the people. These guys were working with the cops weeks earlier.
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The shooter’s name is Steven Baca. He’s the son of a former sheriff and once ran for ABQ city council.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1377702/six-candidates-vying-for-district-2-council-seat.html?amp=1 …
The victim is expected to survive. He’s in surgery now.
On the Abq police scanners, cops referred to the New Mexico Civil Guard as “armed friendlies.”
1:17 AM - Jun 16, 2020
Some got shot in Abq by the fascist New Mexico Civil Guard shot someone.
Sorry for the typos. The NMCG just gunned down someone in cold blood at a protest outside the Albuquerque Museum.
This is the shooter. He said, “My father is the BCSO (Bernalillo County Sheriffs Office).”
Seconds after this guy shot into the crowd hitting one person (who is in bad condition), his fashy NMCG buddies surrounded him to protect him from the people. These guys were working with the cops weeks earlier.
Embedded video
The shooter’s name is Steven Baca. He’s the son of a former sheriff and once ran for ABQ city council.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1377702/six-candidates-vying-for-district-2-council-seat.html?amp=1 …
The victim is expected to survive. He’s in surgery now.
On the Abq police scanners, cops referred to the New Mexico Civil Guard as “armed friendlies.”
1:17 AM - Jun 16, 2020
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WaPo: Police detain armed militia members after man is shot at Albuquerque protest
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.”
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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.”
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