Protesters in Albuquerque on Monday were trying to remove a monument to a Spanish conquistador who led the slaughter as well as enslavement and dismemberment of hundreds of Native Americans in the 16th century. That’s when members of the New Mexico Civil Guard, an armed militia of white vigilantes without any law enforcement authority arrived with “All Lives Matter” signs, according to the Washington Post.

As the New Mexico Civil Guard clashed with protesters, multiple gunshots were eventually fired and one man was struck.

The shooter was recorded on camera being tackled before he got up, brandished a gun and let off four shots.

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While it was unclear whether the shooting victim was a protester or a member of the New Mexico Civil Guard, police officers responded to the scene by peacefully detaining everybody associated with the armed vigilantes. It was a notable departure from the lethal force police have used on unarmed Black people in recent weeks.

So peacefully, in fact, that not a single arrest had been made as of Tuesday morning. The Albuquerque Police Department had neither offered an account or narrative for what happened nor identified anybody involved.

New Mexico’s governor blasted the vigilantes as only being there to stir up trouble and likely only encouraged the violence.

“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,” Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham tweeted early Tuesday morning. “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.”

Source: Cops Don’t Arrest Any Armed, Violent White Thugs After Shooting At Protest In New Mexico