{"id":1658287,"date":"2022-09-26T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658287"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:07:59","slug":"undercover-cop-hater-new-mexico-congressional-hopeful-uses-fake-name-to-trash-cops-deletes-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/undercover-cop-hater-new-mexico-congressional-hopeful-uses-fake-name-to-trash-cops-deletes-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover Cop Hater: New Mexico Congressional Hopeful Uses Fake Name To Trash Cops, Deletes Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fundercover-cop-hater-new-mexico-congressional-hopeful-uses-fake-name-to-trash-cops-deletes-evidence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658287&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democrat Gabe Vasquez called to defund police in interview he gave under fake name, investigation shows<\/p>\n<p>   New Mexico Democratic congressional candidate Gabe Vasquez and Black Lives Matter supporter &#8216;James Hall&#8217; \/ gabeforcongress.com and screenshot   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 September 26, 2022 10:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez gave a fake name during an anti-police rant to a journalist at a Black Lives Matter protest in the summer of 2020, a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> investigation found. Now, the congressional hopeful is burying the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>During a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Las Cruces, N.M., a local reporter interviewed one attendee who furiously expressed his desire to defund police. &#8220;We need serious police reform in this country,&#8221; the man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLfaZ39Za_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> over chants of &#8220;no justice, no peace.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s not just about defunding police, it&#8217;s about defunding a system that privileges white people over everyone else.&#8221; While the interviewee\u2014who shielded much of his face in a hat, neck gaiter, and sunglasses\u2014identified himself as &#8220;James Hall,&#8221; a &#8220;Las Cruces resident,&#8221; the facial features he did show bore a curious resemblance to then-city council member Gabe Vasquez.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the interviewee was, in fact, Vasquez, a former city official who monitored the protest told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. Contemporaneous evidence reviewed by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, meanwhile, supports the assertion. Vasquez tweeted live from the event on June 6, 2020, sharing first-person photos accompanied with the hashtags &#8220;BlackLivesMattters [sic]&#8221; and &#8220;Las Cruces.&#8221; Six months later, Vasquez shared a photo that showed him sporting the same distinct, teal-and-orange neck gaiter he wore in the interview. That <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200920074959\/https:\/www.wheretheriverruns.com\/product-page\/the-wtrr-rag-blue-with-wtrr-blocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaiter<\/a>, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> found, is sold by a small New Mexico-based fly fishing business, Where the River Runs. Vasquez is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdooralliance.org\/blog\/2019\/9\/16\/outdoor-allies-gabe-vasquez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-described <\/a>&#8220;avid angler,&#8221; and in 2018, the Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nuestra-tierra.org\/blog\/podcast-episode-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a> Where the River Runs founder Gregg Flores on his &#8220;conservation podcast,&#8221; during which Vasquez described a &#8220;really cool adventure&#8221; he had with Flores through a &#8220;project&#8221; the pair collaborated on. Vasquez is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/153961058129825\/search?q=%22gabriel%20vasquez%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequent commenter<\/a> on the company&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly two years after the ordeal, Vasquez has quietly deleted much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez gave a fake name during an anti-police rant to a journalist at a Black Lives Matter protest in the summer of 2020, a Washington Free Beacon investigation found. Now, the congressional hopeful is burying the evidence.<br \/>\nThe post Undercover Cop Hater: New Mexico Congressional Hopeful Uses Fake Name To Trash Cops, Deletes Evidence appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1658291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}