Lawless USA
Protester killed after clash with TV crew guard
EVEN by the standards of lawless America 2020, it is a truly shocking scene.
A protester lies on the ground after being shot when two rival demonstrations clashed outside a museum.
The victim was photographed spraying mace gas at a security guard in Denver moments after the two had been trying to grab each other.
Both wore face masks and the guard had his baseball cap and sunglasses knocked off during the clash.
Then the protester was felled from close range by a shot from a handgun. Armed riot police moved in to arrest the guard as he knelt down with his hands raised and a weapon on the where he later died, said Joe ground inches away. Montoya, chief of the police
The man had been protecting a investigations division. ‘ There TV crew covering a ‘Patriot Muster’ was a verbal altercation that rally by Right-wing groups transpired at the area of the countered by a Black Lives Matter shooting,’ he added. ‘A firearm and anti-Fascist protest outside was discharged. There were two the Denver Art Museum. guns recovered at the scene.’
The victim was taken to hospital One video of the incident shows a man wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with ‘Black Guns Matter’ loudly arguing, in explicit language, with several other men. One moves out of view of the camera and seconds later, the protester is shot.
Another video shows police officers rushing to the scene, shouting: ‘Drop the gun.’ A man can be seen getting down on the pavement as they confront him. The 9News channel has confirmed it had contracted the guard though a private agency.
Denver has been the scene of tense protests this year before the shooting on Saturday.