Utah ‘No Kings’ Protest Shooting Suspect Identified As Radical Antifa Member

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A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place at a ‘No Kings’ protest in Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday evening.

Arturo Gamboa has been identified and charged.

Surprise, surprise, Gamboa is a self-identified member of Antifa and BLM activist.

He’s yet another radical leftist who only knows violence.

Here’s everything we know about him so far:

The Post Millennial has more:

A Facebook page with the same name shows radical left-wing ideology. In a June 2020 Facebook post, Gamboa reshared a pro-Antifa message that read: “Antifa means anti-fascist. If you are anti-antifa then you are pro-fascist… If you support Trump, you support a fascist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.”

That same day, Gamboa posted a call to reject the democratic process, writing: “Quit playing the electoral game. They use their two-faced tricks to pacify us. Justice must be taken into the hands of the people, by any means necessary.”

Playing as a drummer in the leftist punk band Rade, Gamboa grew up LDS in Utah with a Venezuelan immigrant father. In an interview with Slug Mag, he said his experiences led him to see the US system as inherently oppressive.

“It’s not fundamentally broken—it’s perfect,” he said. “This is exactly how the system is meant to function. The American system is a steam train that’s always been fueled by black and brown bodies.”

Gamboa was an active supporter of Black Lives Matter during the 2020 riots, according to posts from the account, which saw violent riots across the country that caused billions in damages. His band’s lyrics and public statements frequently echoed anti-capitalist, anti-police, and revolutionary themes.

Let’s see how long it takes for even a single Democrat to condemn this act of political violence.

Speaking of which, Gamboa wasn’t actually the one who fired the gunshots that claimed the life of one person in Salt Lake City last night.

Apparently, a “peacekeeper” at the event spotted him with a rifle, pulled out their own handgun, and fired at Gamboa.

However, the shots missed and killed another protestor in the crowd.

Gamboa was only grazed by a bullet and sustained a minor injury.

Andy Ngo explained:

Very strange…I thought liberals didn’t believe in gun rights…

I guess they certainly don’t believe in going to gun ranges to work on their aim.

After the gunshots rang out, Arturo Gamboa tried to blend back into the crowd in the chaos.

However, someone spotted a rifle in his backpack and alerted police.

That moment was captured in video:

The Salt Lake Tribune reported:

One “innocent bystander,” 39-year-old Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, never made it home, said Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd, at a Sunday news conference. Another man, 24-year-old Arturo Gamboa, was later jailed on suspicion of murder.

Redd said investigators believe Ah Loo was killed by a man who was apparently part of the demonstration’s “peacekeeping team.” He hit Ah Loo as he fired three shots at Gamboa, who Redd said was running into the crowd of protesters just before 8 p.m. with a rifle drawn.

Officers found Gamboa minutes after the shooting, crouching in a group of people near 100 South and 200 East, and arrested him. He was treated at a hospital for a “minor” gunshot wound before he was booked into jail.

While police say Gamboa didn’t fire a shot, an officer wrote in a probable cause statement that the 24-year-old was “knowingly engage[d] in conduct that create[d] a grave risk of death to another individual and thereby cause[d] the death of the other individual.

Police initially detained the alleged shooter and another man — both men wearing the neon, high-visibility vests commonly worn by protest safety organizers — who’d confronted Gamboa, though neither were arrested and both were let go. Redd said they are cooperating with the police investigation.

“There’s still a lot of questions to be answered, and we will continue to update you as we learn more and the investigation progresses,” Redd said. “What we do know is that this incident unfolded very quickly. It was chaotic, but it was resolved very quickly” thanks to police and civilians.



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