El Paso County prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against a pair of Black ranchers whose allegations of racist behavior by their neighbors and the local sheriff’s department went v…
El Paso County prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against a pair of Black ranchers whoseby their neighbors and the local sheriff’s department went viral earlier this year.
“We are pleased with this outcome and recognize the district attorney’s office for reaching this conclusion,” the couple’s attorneys, Tyrone Glover, Matthew Roche and Jeremy Loew, said in a statement Thursday. “While justice has been served today, the fight for individual, law enforcement and prosecutorial accountability are far from over.
Howard Black, a spokesperson for the Fourth Judicial District Attorney’s Office, said a “public criminal record does not exist with respect to these defendants who are the subject of the sealed record.” He would not comment further. The ranchers’ story blew up after a pair of articles in an online publication raised concerns about potential civil rights violations. The Mallerys said white neighbors were poisoning their animals, destroying their property and threatening them with guns, though nobody has been arrested in connection with the couple’s allegations.
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