• ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    In 2020, Matthew Dolloff, an unlicensed security guard contracted through Pinkerton, shot and killed Lee Keltner, a conservative protester, in Denver, Colorado. Dolloff had been contracted by Pinkerton to guard a camera-crew working for 9News. The camera crew had been assigned to cover rival political groups protesting in Denver. Keltner had told a cameraman to stop filming him; Dolloff then approached Keltner. Keltner slapped Dolloff before spraying him with bear spray, and moments later Dolloff shot Keltner. Dolloff was arrested, investigated for first-degree murder, and charged with second-degree murder. The charge was later dropped

    I’m mandela’d on this one, I thought he wasn’t actively employed as a pinkerton at the time, and that he got killed in a shoot-out at a house with the pigs a day or two later, I’m probably conflating it with another event from around then if anyone knows anything that would fit?

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netM
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      9 days ago

      I’m probably conflating it with another event from around then if anyone knows anything that would fit?

      yeah, you’re thinking of this:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl

      On August 29, 2020, Aaron Danielson, an American supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer,[1][2] was shot and killed, allegedly by a far-left activist, after participating in a caravan which drove through Portland, Oregon, displaying banners and signs supporting President Donald Trump,[3] and clashing with participants in the local George Floyd protests.[3][4]

      On September 3, 2020, Danielson’s suspected killer, Michael Reinoehl, an American anti-fascist[3][5] activist[6][7] was shot and killed by a federally led fugitive task force near Lacey, Washington.[8][9]

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      8 days ago

      You left out the best part! Keltner ran a custom cowboy hat company named Crossfire LOL.