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They were there to celebrate Rio Arriba County officials’ decision to postpone plans to relocate a controversial statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate just outside the County Annex building Thursday morning in Española, New Mexico.
Several men were grappling with another man, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, who activists later said was trying to make his way to an altar set up on a pedestal where the Oñate was to be erected. Authorities later identified the man as 23-year-old Ryan Martinez of Sandia Park.
As people watching the scuffle yelled at the men to stop, Martinez broke free, hopped over a half-wall, pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired one shot, hitting a Native American man in the torso. Onlookers screamed and sprinted in the other direction.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/man...e_946dcd3c-5e2d-11ee-9363-97e4e793df8a.html#1
Several men were grappling with another man, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, who activists later said was trying to make his way to an altar set up on a pedestal where the Oñate was to be erected. Authorities later identified the man as 23-year-old Ryan Martinez of Sandia Park.
As people watching the scuffle yelled at the men to stop, Martinez broke free, hopped over a half-wall, pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired one shot, hitting a Native American man in the torso. Onlookers screamed and sprinted in the other direction.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/man...e_946dcd3c-5e2d-11ee-9363-97e4e793df8a.html#1
