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Former council candidate charged with shooting of New Mexico protesterWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.DismisscloseAdvertisementBy Log in, or to save articles for later.Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeAdvertisementAlbuquerque police have arrested a former city council candidate and charged him with shooting and critically injuring a protester in a group that was calling for the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador, according to reports.Stephen Ray Baca, 31, was booked into a city jail on a charge of aggravated battery in the shooting, which occurred on Monday, Albuquerque Police Department spokesman Gilbert Gallegos told the Albuquerque Journal.Baca was not immediately available for comment. It was not clear whether he was connected with a group of heavily armed counterprotesters who identified themselves as a civilian militia called the New Mexico Civil Guard.The shooting victim, identified as Scott Williams, was in a critical condition after being shot several times in the torso, the newspaper reported. Police could not be reached for further comment."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 Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham 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."Anti-racism protesters angered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, have tried to topple statues of imperialists, conquistadors and other figures associated with subjugation of indigenous peoples.Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said the Oñate statue would be removed to "contain the public safety risk".AdvertisementAnother statute of the colonial governor was removed on Monday from Alcalde, about 160 kilometres north of Albuquerque.Seen by some as a hero who led the Spanish colonisation of New Mexico, Oñate is reviled by others as a killer who enslaved the ancestors of Native Americans and ordered men over the age of 25 to have one foot cut off after an uprising at Acoma Pueblo.ReutersLog in, or to save articles for later.Advertisement

Former council candidate charged with shooting of New Mexico protesterWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.DismisscloseAdvertisementBy Log in, or to save articles for later.Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeAdvertisementAlbuquerque police have arrested a former city council candidate and charged him with shooting and critically injuring a protester in a group that was calling for the removal of a statue of a Spanish conquistador, according to reports.Stephen Ray Baca, 31, was booked into a city jail on a...

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