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.
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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.