• ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            In 2020, Matthew Dolloff, an unlicensed security guard contracted through Pinkerton, shot and killed Lee Keltner, a conservative protester, in Denver, Colorado. Dolloff had been contracted by Pinkerton to guard a camera-crew working for 9News. The camera crew had been assigned to cover rival political groups protesting in Denver. Keltner had told a cameraman to stop filming him; Dolloff then approached Keltner. Keltner slapped Dolloff before spraying him with bear spray, and moments later Dolloff shot Keltner. Dolloff was arrested, investigated for first-degree murder, and charged with second-degree murder. The charge was later dropped

            I’m mandela’d on this one, I thought he wasn’t actively employed as a pinkerton at the time, and that he got killed in a shoot-out at a house with the pigs a day or two later, I’m probably conflating it with another event from around then if anyone knows anything that would fit?

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        Nah, rent-a-cops (while they personally might aspire to the shittiness of cops) actually face consequences when they murder people in broad daylight…

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          The guy who shot the chud who later got killed by the police was named like Roenahl or something like that and he was not a Pinkerton, he was a protestor from the Seattle area

          • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.net
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            Michael Reinoehl killed a nazi in Portland, that was a different case than they are referring to. The chud in Denver was shot by a Pinkerton contracted security guard.