Gabriel Lopez, Candidate For The Laredo City Council District 2 Facing Backlash For Mimicking Serial Killings By A U.S. Border Patrol Intel Supervisor

Lopez, candidate for the Laredo City Council District 2 facing backlash from constituents for generalizing all U.S. Border Patrol agents as serial killers with a Halloween character meme on his Facebook account.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

September 18, 2018

TX: Gabriel Lopez, a veteran and candidate for the Laredo City Council District #2 is getting backlash from constituents after sharing a Facebook (FB) meme "Only in Laredo" post on Sunday of a Halloween movie serial killer character with knife in a U.S. Border Patrol coveralls mimicking the recent serial murders by suspect U.S. Border Patrol Intel supervisor Juan David Ortiz who was charged on Saturday with 4 felony counts of murder after the bodies of four victims including a transgender woman were found in the rural Webb County area.

The meme generalized all Border Patrol agents with a fictional movie character, who is a serial killer.
On Monday, Lopez posted on his FB,  "We must pray for their souls , they were mothers sisters, aunts , uncle , brother and most important    Someone's family.. whatever brought to their lifestyle they are still human beings let's us remember that", no doubt it only shows the hypocrisy.
When contacted by Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) about the post, Lopez removed it from his FB account without providing any explaination.
Lopez later posted, "I want to assure you the public that a fake profile about me was created posting a picture of a border patrol. I can assure the public that this is a malice attempt to discredit me and my campaign. Please visit my Facebook so you can see what I have posted about this asking the public for prayers for the now deceased victims. I also urge the creators of this fake profile to please reconsider your actions as they are ill intended and malicious in nature. Thank you"

Lopez also posted the following comment after HNNUSA posted the article on his comment thread, "Sir I had made a statement regarding this fake post and others made this is a sick attempt to ruin my campaign". The question lingers, if Lopez can post on his FB, then why didn't he just apologize for his tasteless share of a Halloween post and move on instead of continuing to say it was a fake post and profile. One thing for sure, Lopez continues to post on his own FB account indicating that he is the only one in control of it.
Lopez also got backlash for attacking Nathan Chu, candidate for Municipal Judge in Laredo. Lopez posted, "So tacos are now the way buy votes...how low can we go!!" Chu on Sunday gave away free tacos in front of his campaign headquarters to people that stopped by to meet the candidate in Laredo. Lopez and Chu later appeared on a Lopez FB post shaking hands and smiling. It seems Chu decided to forgive Lopez for the low blow about giving free tacos.

Lopez on his FB did respond to a follower and posted that "This is not post ma'am it is a fake profile please feel free to visit my Facebook profile thank you." Apparently, it is his FB account and does continue to post and he also attacked a well known FB video independent and alternative news reporter Priscilla Villarreal Treviño, 33, aka, "Lagordiloca" (Lgl) who has more than 104,287 followers in her Lagordiloca News Laredo TX Facebook page account and around the U.S. Lopez posted, "This is a perfect documented example of how a want to be reporter LGL can unscrupulously hurt families including children of innocent people, I am a victim of her careless reporting by reporting lies about me and my campaign just days ago.. what a shame that people fall for this yellow unprofessional journalism(so called ) please citizens of Laredo don’t fall for this nonsense anymore enough is  enough !" What Lopez posted and referred about was an article by LaredosNews dot com, which reported that a Laredo police officer was detained and questioned about the serial killings and Lgl posted on her FB "Lagordiloca" what was transpiring as breaking news and was actually happening at the time. Most mainstream media and alternative news sources do the same. But, Lopez referred to Lagordiloca as "yellow unprofessional journalism" and claimed that he had been a victim also about the way she breaks news. Lgl did respond to Lopez attack and gave him a full exposure of who he is, in other words, it backfired on Lopez. Lgl says that Lopez was arrested for drunk driving, assault and got kicked out from the local American Legion and says that everyone considers Lopez as an "asshole" and no one likes him and no one will vote for him. Lgl also says, that Lopez should stop lying and that his FB account is not fake.
Lastly, Lgl called out the Mayor of Laredo and other local public elected officials on a Facebook video (Warning: video contains adult language) for not taking responsibility as mayor and addressing the recent serial homicides.

In 2015 HNNUSA reported that Lopez, as the director of the Veteran's Center illegally evicted an ill 86-year-old Korean War Veteran. Article link:
http://bit.ly/1QqhOiz

Article: Serial Killer And U.S. Border Intel Supervisor Juan David Ortiz Targeted Five Victims From The San Bernardo Ave. Prostitution Hub Near Downtown Laredo https://bit.ly/2D6U30Y

Update: Press release from Lopez