ESPN - Colorado State player held at gunpoint by man thinking he was a member of Antifa
A Colorado State football player working for a roofing company in Loveland was ordered to the ground and held at gunpoint on Thursday by a man who mistook the player and another employee as being members of the activist group known as Antifa.
According to a report from 9news.com, Scott Gudmundsen initially called police to report two men wearing face masks going door-to-door in his neighborhood. The 65-year-old told police he was going to confront the two men, and when police arrived they found him wearing fatigues and armed with two pistols, holding both men on the ground at gunpoint.
This should surprise no one, but the two men who were assaulted were black (UPDATE: While the CSU football player was black, the other person assaulted was white), while the assailant was white. The assailant is charged with menacing and false imprisonment. The article focuses on the football player who was assaulted, because it’s an ESPN article. And the assailant just had to be wearing camouflage, because I guess playing vigilante just isn’t the same if you aren’t putting on a fake uniform.