“Shots Were Fired At Our Ranch”: Black Colorado Farmers Say Ongoing Battle With Racist Neighbors Led To Drive-By Shooting
By NewsOne Photos: YouTube Screenshots A family of Black ranchers in Yoder, Colorado, who have reported a history of racial incidents they have endured since taking over the property, claim that, over the weekend, someone fired shots during a “drive-by,” which they appear to believe was an effort to intimidate them perpetrated by the very racists they’ve been up against for years. “Shots were fired at our ranch. We are alive, but something inside us has been shaken in a way that cannot be put back easily. Freedom Acres Ranch is the place that was meant to be safe, the land we fought for, the space where we built life and purpose, has been violated,” Courtney “CW” Mallery, owner of Freedom Acres Ranch, wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday. “They want us to lie in fear on our own land. We are carrying the weight of knowing that violence has found us and that it was allowed to happen by those who are sworn to protect and serve. This did not come out of nowhere. This has been building. This has been ignored. This falls squarely on the shoulders of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and their refusal to protect us. The people who are sworn to serve and protect have instead allowed violence, stalking, harm, intimidation, and hate to grow unchecked around us. We believe we are being pushed out. We believe there are efforts to remove us from land we have poured everything into. Mentally, we are exhausted. Physically, we are worn down. Financially, this is breaking us. This is affecting our ability to run our business, to protect our animals, and to continue the work that matters not just to us, but to our community.” Mallery and his wife, Nicole Mallery, have lived in Yoder since 2020, a few years after Hurricane Harvey displaced them from their home in Texas, according to the ranch’s website. READ MORE…
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By NewsOne
Photos: YouTube Screenshots
A family of Black ranchers in Yoder, Colorado, who have reported a history of racial incidents they have endured since taking over the property, claim that, over the weekend, someone fired shots during a “drive-by,” which they appear to believe was an effort to intimidate them perpetrated by the very racists they’ve been up against for years.
“Shots were fired at our ranch. We are alive, but something inside us has been shaken in a way that cannot be put back easily. Freedom Acres Ranch is the place that was meant to be safe, the land we fought for, the space where we built life and purpose, has been violated,” Courtney “CW” Mallery, owner of Freedom Acres Ranch, wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday. “They want us to lie in fear on our own land. We are carrying the weight of knowing that violence has found us and that it was allowed to happen by those who are sworn to protect and serve. This did not come out of nowhere. This has been building. This has been ignored. This falls squarely on the shoulders of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and their refusal to protect us. The people who are sworn to serve and protect have instead allowed violence, stalking, harm, intimidation, and hate to grow unchecked around us. We believe we are being pushed out. We believe there are efforts to remove us from land we have poured everything into. Mentally, we are exhausted. Physically, we are worn down. Financially, this is breaking us. This is affecting our ability to run our business, to protect our animals, and to continue the work that matters not just to us, but to our community.”
Mallery and his wife, Nicole Mallery, have lived in Yoder since 2020, a few years after Hurricane Harvey displaced them from their home in Texas, according to the ranch’s website. READ MORE…
