Tagged: Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE: DISCREDITED DOCTOR AND CAPITOL STORMER PUSHES C19 CONSPIRACY THEORIES AT INFAMOUS MEGACHURCH
by ANDREW GUNN | May 13, 2021
New Mexico, one of the most effective states in the country at combating the COVID-19 pandemic, played host to a different, more insidious strain of virus this week. “Dr.” Simone Gold, a widely discredited physician, COVID truther and Capitol insurrectionist facing federal charges and currently out on bond, came to Albuquerque on May 11 for […]
ALBUQUERQUE: “WHITE LIVES MATTER” RALLY DRAWS ONE ARMED MAN AND HUNDREDS OF COUNTER-PROTESTERS
by BELLA DAVIS | April 14, 2021
“The Proud Boys and other white supremacist groups should never be given the space to feel comfortable openly displaying hatred in Albuquerque,” Zoey Craft, co-founder of the student activist organization Fight For Our Lives, said. A “White Lives Matter” rally that was expected to take place in downtown Albuquerque on Sunday and be attended by […]
ALBUQUERQUE: OPENLY RACIST ANTI-QUARANTINE PROTESTS ATTRACT MILITIA, CONFLICT WITH BLM
by BELLA DAVIS | July 22, 2020
ALBUQUERQUE–Anti-quarantine protesters gathered twice last week at Civic Plaza—first on Thursday, July 16 and again on Sunday, July 19. They objected to closures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 and a state public health order that mandates masks be worn at all times in public. Both protests raised questions about enforcement of the mask […]
EYEWITNESSES: ALLEGED SHOOTER AND MILITIAMEN ATTACKED PROTESTERS BEFORE INCIDENT WHILE COPS WATCHED
by ABNER HÄUGE | June 19, 2020
Kate Kane tells me that “on the surface it sounded like they were just going to have a prayer meeting and hopefully put pressure on the city to take down the statue of Oñate.” Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a conquistador and governed New Mexico for the Spanish Empire. “He raped and pillaged native […]