Despite viral video and confirmation by Aurora, Colorado’s mayor that migrant gangs are terrorizing apartment buildings, Colorado’s Democrat Governor Jarid Polis says that people are just imagining the incidents and spreading “misinformation.”
The video showing migrant gang members with guns terrorizing Aurora apartment buildings gained national media coverage this week, after which Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman confirmed that Venezuelan migrant gangs have seized control of at least three apartment buildings.
Mayor Coffman blamed the Biden Administration’s open-borders policies, while Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky tied the gang takeovers to Gov. Polis’ policies.
Governor Polis then told the public not to believe their eyes and ears, calling the gang violence imaginary and accusing those reporting it of spreading misinformation.
“According to police intelligence, this purported invasion is largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination,” Gov. Polis’ press office told The New York Post.
Likewise, in a statement to Fox News Digital, Polis Spokeswoman Shelby Wieman dismissed the reports and video as a “misinformation campaign” that’s bad for business:
"We know violent crime in Aurora went down between 2022-2023. Fully expect the data will show further declines for 2024.
"And the recent misinformation campaign threatens actual criminal investigations and could hurt the climate for small businesses in Aurora.”
“[O]ne man ended up dead. That's not misinformation. These are real problems," Arapahoe County, Colorado, District Attorney John Kellner shot back Friday in an interview with Fox News:
"I strongly disagree with the governor's comments about this. This isn't 'misinformation.’
“Right now there's an active investigation into a massive shootout that occurred outside one of these apartment complexes, and one man ended up dead. That's not misinformation. These are real problems."