Posted on 09/16/2020 9:36:39 AM PDT by marktwain
Screenshot from Youtube video of Protest for Freedom Rally, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten
On Sunday morning, 19 July, 2020, a kindergarten teacher was organizing a Black New Mexico Movement protest at the Civic Plaza in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He had a firearm holstered across his chest. Police say he refused to disarm after they told him firearms were banned at the Plaza. A few minutes later they arrested him and two other armed men who were with him.
Grady complained that members of the New Mexico Civil Guard, who attended a Protest for Freedom rally at the Civic Plaza on Friday, July 17, and were armed, were not arrested.
The 40-year-old kindergarten teacher was helping set the stage for a Black New Mexico Movement protest at Civic Plaza one Sunday morning in mid-July, his gun holstered across his chest.
A short time later, Francisco “Frankie” Grady was handcuffed and then cited for having a firearm on city property. He was subsequently charged with unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school premises, a fourth-degree felony that now follows him on his record, even though there is no school in sight at Civic Plaza.
A quick look at the video of the rally on the 17th of July did not show any openly armed people there. There are plenty of black people at the rally. The rally did not get much press. It looked to be pretty high energy.
The police said that the New Mexico Civil Guard had been warned to disarm, and they had done so.
As of 23 August, all of the charges against the trio of black men arrested on 19 July had been dropped.
The police spokesman said the three arrested on 19 July had been told to
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“As of 23 August, all of the charges against the trio of black men arrested on 19 July had been dropped.”
Probably because open carry is legal in New Mexico. Civic Plaza is not a restricted place as far as I can find for New Mexico open carry (such as bars, schools, courtrooms, etc.).
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