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.
Man who threatened roofing salesmen at gunpoint, including Black CSU athlete, sentenced to probation
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A man who held a Black Colorado State University student who was working as a door-to-door salesman last summer at gunpoint was sentenced Tuesday to four years of probation after he took a plea deal earlier this year.
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DENVER â A man who held a Black Colorado State University student who was working as a door-to-door salesman last summer at gunpoint was sentenced Tuesday to four years of probation after he took a plea deal earlier this year.
The Loveland man who held two salesmen, including a Black Colorado State University athlete, at gunpoint last summer has been sentenced to probation.
Former police officer Scott Gudmundsen, 66, was sentenced to four years of supervised probation during a Tuesday court hearing.
Gudmundsen pleaded guilty to menacing with a weapon, a Class 5 felony, during a March 18 court hearing. Six other charges were dismissed by the 8th Judicial District Attorney s Office as part of a plea agreement.
Gudmundsen was arrested in June after he held two roofing inspection salesmen at gunpoint and knelt on the neck of one of the men who was later identified by CSU athletics as a Black football player because he thought they were members of the antifa movement, according to his arrest documents.