Colorado’s Democrat Governor Jared Polis has done an abrupt about-face about a violent Venezuelan gang that’s been taking over apartment complexes in a Denver suburb.
Shocking video of the heavily armed foreign thugs from the notorious Tren de Aragua, a bunch that is so extreme that they’ve been described as “MS-13 on steroids,” went viral on social media and has since blown up in national headlines, a very serious problem that Polis’ office downplayed.
Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky sounded the alarm about the criminal gang when she personally assisted a couple with moving out of their complex which had become too dangerous to stay, but instead of concern, all she got was an insult from a Polis spox who said that she was imagining things.
The spokesperson, Shelby Wieman, told the New York Post that “according to police intelligence, this purported invasion is largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination,” a statement that the councilwoman said “disappointed” her, with the video proof being widely available.
The governor appeared on CNN on Friday and was still playing politics, passing the buck to police and Republicans in the local government of Aurora.
(Video: CNN)
But now that the apartment takeovers have been making national headlines, Polis seems to have a change of heart and is in full damage control mode, in a statement posted to social media.
“Colorado is a zero tolerance state for illegal activity, taking over buildings has no place in Colorado, and I am confident that the city of Aurora shares this basic value and will enforce the law if it is being violated there. I urge them to do so quickly and in a thorough manner,” he wrote on Facebook.
“Over the last month, I have been in regular contact with the City of Aurora and the Aurora Police Department and have offered any and all state assistance to support their efforts if requested. The state has been ready for weeks to back up any operation by the Aurora Police Department needed to make Aurora safer,” the governor said.
(Screenshot: Facebook)
Cindy Romero, one of the residents who Jurinsky helped to move out, slammed Governor Polis during a Friday Fox News appearance. “You can’t fake video and Polis wouldn’t last five minutes on that property,” she said.
(Video: Fox News)
“They don’t want to admit that they’re part of the problem. It’s the administration who we count on to make the rules for us, to make the guidelines that we go by. I call 911. No help comes for me. No help,” she said.
“There’s there’s no, mass, amounts of police that show up to make sure that we’re defended. Nobody showed up to help me. I didn’t have, a bulletproof vest. I didn’t have five officers showing up with me whenever there was a problem. We were on our own, and we were left to die,” Romero told the outlet.
Meanwhile, Aurora has declared the gangs to be a “criminal nuisance” which allows city officials to seek emergency court-ordered evictions to get the criminals out of the complexes.
“This will require a municipal judge to issue the order with the goal of getting these properties back under the control of the property owners,” said Mayor Mike Coffman, who recently blamed the Biden-Harris administration for the gang occupation of the apartments.
“In the meantime, the law enforcement task force set up to disrupt and arrest Venezuelan gang members in these buildings will continue its operations,” the mayor added in a social media post.
The trouble in the Mile High City isn’t good for Democrat nominee and “border czar” Kamala Harris who has spent the last month gaslighting Americans that she’s had a complete reversal and is tougher on illegal immigration than Trump.
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