New Mexico Leaders To Militia: If You Want To Help Community, Stop Showing Up Armed

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Armed militias continue to show up at protests across the U.S. But after a protester was shot in Albuquerque, local leaders are telling them to stay away. 'We're just trying to send a clear signal that we never want vigilantes in our town,' the mayor says

A New Mexico judge ruled on June 22 that Steven Baca, who was arrested during a confrontation with protesters over the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador, will be released pending trial on charges of aggravated battery and unlawful carrying of a handgun. He has not been charged in connection with the shooting that left a protestor seriously wounded.

The New Mexico Civil Guard insists they're not haters or white supremacists. As proof, they introduce the newest militiaman, Walter Rodriguez, a hispanic private prison guard from Grants, New Mexico. The group's co-founder and chaplain is a 30-year-old framing carpenter with a red beard and tattoos named Bryce Provance.

"You know, I did stupid things. I've lost a lot of my life," he said tearfully. He described a turbulent childhood during which he was addicted to cocaine by age 13. He said he formed the militia as a kind of restitution to society, and"to help our sheriffs."

 

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Your forgot to mention the armed BLM militia who showed up at Stone Mountain Georgia on 4th of July.

Y'all missed the part where Baca throws a woman half his side to the ground and her head bounced.

White America wonder why blk ppl r violent, its a learned behavior. If u see someone else do something for 100 of yrs then u learn that's the way of life, the way to live. US has a very violent racist corrupt history which has never went away.

Those are terrorists, not militias. By definition, a militia must be formally supportive of a military. That ain't the case here.

Here's a link to the video for context to the shooting. Important information that isn't in the OP is that the person that fired shots was not a member of the Civil Guard militia that showed up in NM. *Warning graphic content*

I’m more impressed and persuaded by intelligent, compassionate ideas than by displays of potential force. I own firearms too, but I find that goods minds guided by good hearts get better results.

That what happens when the media and national leaders stoke race and culture wars while telling people to stay in and take it up the ass.

Stop referring to these gun wheeling white nationalist as militia. They are NOT state government authorized organizations.

Dear armed militias, go to DC and demand justice for an attempted coup by the previous administration. No justice, no peace

But loot and beat people all you want!

NO. The armed militias were burning, looting, and murdering in the streets a few weeks ago. NPR, we know what you are.

I never could really get the clarity of this, bringing AK47s, and M-16s to areas of peaceful protest. All that this does is instigates and invites violence and then they wonder why the Government, police , and activists groups want to take their guns away from them be responsible

When will these militias be ‘well regulated’ as mentioned in the 2A?

It is a lot worse than this. The police tolerated these armed to the teeth instigators. The Albuquerque police lied about the events at that shooting. Local leaders did not come out quick enough, to stop these militias and other extremists.

Protesters are not rioters and rioters are not protesters. Armed militants are not peacekeepers and peacekeepers are not armed militants.

That 'protester' was actively beating a man who was trying to get away after taking a skateboard to the head

How about arresting those mother fuckers for domestic terrorism?

“Militias.” More like armed mobs of angry entitled white men.

Why is it when the 1st amendment clashes with the 2nd amendment chaos ensues?

Wild West, 1875?

They are defending the country from domestic terrorists because the elected politicians have no spine. They have every right to be there just as the 'protesters' do. Don't ever back down.

After a protester pulled a knife on a man with a gun....

When these different groups starts shooting each other, maybe THEN politicians will do something.

The entire point of the current narrative by the socialist left is to delegitimize all accumulated wealth as a product of racism so they can totally upturn the entire system to install a new one to forcibly mass redistribute wealth.

Again we see the face of Trump's Cult. Trump’s agenda is clear. He tweets video of a white supremist yelling 'white power'. His campaign uses the same triangles to mark political opponents as the Nazis did. American Nazis openly yell 'Heil Trump'.

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