A Colorado man was sentenced to four years of supervised probation after holding two roof repair salesmen at gunpoint after accusing them of being antifa operatives.
Scott Gudmundsen, 66, pleaded guilty to the class 5 felony of felony menacing at a March 18 disposition hearing, reports local station 9news.
As part of his plea agreement with the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, Gudmundsen will agree to supervised mental health treatment.
On June 11, 2020, Gudmundsen called 911 dispatchers and informed them that he was going to pursue two antifa members in his neighborhood, the Loveland Police Department stated in a press release.
The two individuals were salesmen wearing white surgical masks and polo shirts showing their company name.
Probation for ex-police officer accused of kneeling on Black man’s neck
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DENVER – A former police officer accused of holding two door-to-door roofing company salesmen on the ground at gunpoint and kneeling on the neck of one of them who is Black, saying they were terrorists and part of antifa, was sentenced to four years of probation on Tuesday.
Scott Gudmundsen, 66, of Loveland pleaded guilty to a single felony count of menacing with a weapon. His public defender, Ryan Markus, said Gudmundsen was a experiencing a mental health crisis and delusions at the time of the incident in June and believed he was part of a “culture war,”
A former Colorado police officer who held two salesmen at gunpoint last summer and accused them of being antifa was sentenced Tuesday to four years of probation.
He then reportedly told Wesley he would not kill him but that police would.
Gudmundsen pleaded guilty to a single felony count of menacing with a weapon, and prosecutors decided against filing hate crime charges.
His lawyers said he was experiencing a mental health crisis during the incident and thought he was part of a “culture war.” The news outlet reports Gudmundsen suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
“I can still feel how hard and how fast my heartbeat was,” Wesley reportedly said in court Tuesday.
“I can still remember the amount of adrenaline in my body.I was certain my death was going to be another hashtag, another reason for people to protest, because it was clear that to Mr. Gudmundsen my Black life did not matter,” he said.