\u201cCunnyngham told the police that an unidentified old man then approached him and told him to put the signs back and began shoving him.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018All of the sudden two more men showed up and started to hit and shove Mr. Cunnyngham,\u2019 Sgt. John Wentz wrote in the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cCunnyngham\u2019s wife Joni also told police that when she got out of the car to help, someone held her from behind and kept her in place while the men beat her husband. Another witness, who had also gotten out of the car, was shoved in a ditch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the Cunnynghams told police that a small group of bystanders from Casa los C\u00f3rdovas broke up the fight, other witnesses such as Francisco \u2018El Comanche\u2019 Gonzales were \u2018standing on the patio of the bar laughing and taunting him after the men left him alone,\u2019 according to the police report.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Police told the newspaper they\u2019re working to identify those involved.<\/p>\n
Cruz, who called the incident \u201cunfortunate\u201d but said she didn\u2019t witness anything, is challenging incumbent Sarah C. Backus in the Democratic primary. There are no Republicans in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police in Taos are investigating the alleged beating of a man that followed a dispute about the placement of signs directing people to a campaign event for Eighth Judicial District Judge candidate Ernestina Cruz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,142,161],"class_list":["post-39817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-crime","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}