[CedarDave]

The back story is that at a protest at the Juan de Oñate statue in Albuquerque, the protesting group tried to tear it down when Steven Baca who was by himself (and not a member of the Civil Guard) argued against that action. Shoving occurred and one of the female protestors went to the ground (maybe not as hard as she claimed). That enraged the crowd and Baca was slapped around with a skateboard and tried to leave. As he left and ran, the mob followed and two attacked him, one with a metal edged skateboard. As he fell to the ground he drew his weapon, a pistol, and fired on the skateboard attacker who was badly wounded in the abdomen. That scattered the crowd and the armed NM Civil Guard, who was on site but did not interfere up to then, surrounded Baca who had dropped the gun. They secured the gun and kept him both from leaving and from being attacked by the angry mob.

Police, who had been told to stand down and away from the protest by the liberal city mayor and deputy chief, were hiding behind a building and only after the shooting came to arrest Baca and disarm the Civil Guard.

Soros DA Torrez charged Baca with attempted murder but did not arrest any of the protestors/rioters. He also started proceedings against the Civil Guard saying they were a hate group acting as a police force (see the link above).

[CedarDave]

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[CedarDave]

BTW, as in the Rittenhouse case, there is video of Baca running from the protestors, then the actual attack on Baca by two of them, and Baca shooting from the ground at the skateboard holding attacker.

[ViLaLuz]

There are so many similarities with the Rittenhouse case with the leftist method of attack.

[LegendHasIt]

If this leftist Soros thug DA is successful in banning the organization of militias in NM, I have a feeling that it is going to create MORE militias, more quietly organized.

In NM even most of the democrats... the ones born here anyway, love their guns and Second Amendment rights.