Black ranchers say they’re being terrorized in El Paso County. Court records, interviews paint more complicated picture.
Courtney and Nicole Mallery’s story has all the makings of an egregious civil rights case.
The Mallerys’ story went viral in recent weeks, prompting a deluge of supporters demanding justice. Donors poured $200,000 in contributions into an online fundraiser. Black leaders in Colorado assembled behind the ranchers, calling their treatment an abhorrent violation of their constitutional rights — a replica of centuries of mistreatment of Black people in this country.
El Paso County Sheriff Joseph Roybal vigorously defended his office’s treatment of the couple in a news conference this week, even as he announced he was reopening two cases involving the Mallerys where “we could have done more.” “This is the most egregious display of injustice I have ever seen in my life,” said Portia Prescott, president of the Rocky Mountain NAACP.
Their situation drew broader attention from civil rights groups after Courtney Mallery was arrested Feb. 7 and charged with felony stalking, tampering with a utility meter and petty theft related to an ongoing dispute with a neighbor. Nicole Mallery previously had been issued a summons on the same charges.
Jeff Fard, who runs a cultural center in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, previously had worked with the Mallerys on free food giveaways. Their story, he said, is representative of “that Black demographic that is few and far between.” “She thinks she owns the county roads,” Clark said. “She thinks she owns everything around the property.”
“Everything they say we’re doing is something they’ve done to everybody else,” Clark said. “I feel like I should be on the show ‘Fear Thy Neighbor’ — this is insane.” “I… find it highly unusual that the Mallerys feel the need to put themselves in such close proximity to Ms. Clark for no foreseeable reason,” El Paso County sheriff’s Sgt. E.R. Gerhart wrote in the Dec. 9 arrest affidavit.
Saksteder told The Post that he walked around the property, knocking on several doors, but didn’t get an answer. In statements to El Paso County deputies that day, Nicole Mallery allegedly gave a false date of birth and changed the state of her identification, according to an arrest affidavit. She told deputies that she kept asking the process server to produce identification, demanding he say why he was trespassing on her property.After authorities found Saksteder and watched video from his phone, they determined Mallery’s statement contradicted the video evidence.
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