Former Las Cruces, New Mexico, City Councilman Gabe Vasquez is running for U.S. Congress in 2022 to uphold and protect a system that Las Cruces Black Lives Matter protester James Hall wanted to tear down in June 2020.
Which is weird, because it turns out, they’re the same person.
Confused? Well, let’s go back to an ugly period of unrest which followed the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. During a protest in Las Cruces, a local reporter interviewed someone identified as James Hall.
“Hall,” wearing a bandanna over his face along with sunglasses and a hat, said defunding the police simply wasn’t enough.
“We need serious police reform in this country,” the man said over chants of “no justice, no peace.”
“It’s not just about defunding police. It’s about defunding a system that privileges white people over everybody else.”