For nearly six months, Arturo Roberto Gamboa has publicly remained silent about being shot by a so-called armed peacekeeper and then being arrested for investigation of murder and not knowing for months whether he’d face formal criminal charges.

On Tuesday, Gamboa broke his silence and spent nearly an hour answering questions about what happened on June 14 during the No Kings protest in downtown Salt Lake City that ended with Gamboa — who was carrying a rifle — being shot, injured and arrested, and the shooting death of 39-year-old Arthur “Afa” Folasa Ah Loo.

“The very day (Ah Loo was shot), I was treated as the perpetrator … that I was there with the intention to harm others. From the moment that everything happened, I was treated as a psychopathic villain,” he said. “I was made to be t

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