🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION: The Siege on Freedom Acres Ranch Continues. We Need Your Help. 🚨
In early 2023, the nightmare unfolding at Freedom Acres Ranch captured national attention. Courtney and Nicole Mallery, two military veterans who relocated to Yoder, Colorado, after surviving Hurricane Harvey, posted a desperate plea for help that went viral. You can view my original post on r/worldnewsvideo detailing what they were facing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/11082xx/a_black_couple_that_owns_the_freedom_farm_in_el/?sort=top
They bought over 1,000 acres to build a sustainable food source and a safe haven for their community. Instead, they walked into a coordinated campaign of racial terror and intimidation by local residents. It is a modern day Klan operation operating with the complicity of local law enforcement.
Despite surviving hurricanes, arrests, and years of racial terror, CW and Nicole have refused to pack up and run. They continue to run Freedom Acres Ranch, fighting for Black land ownership, food sovereignty, and their basic right to exist safely on the land they legally own. But the harassment has not stopped, and the threat to their lives remains active and unchecked.
Here is exactly what they have endured on their own land, and below is exactly how you can help them fight back.
What Courtney and Nicole Mallery Have Endured
1. The Slaughter and Poisoning of Their Animals To terrorize the Mallerys and destroy their livelihood, perpetrators have repeatedly targeted their livestock and pets. The couple has found their cows, pigs, goats, and dogs poisoned, mutilated, and even beheaded. Animals have been deliberately run over, stolen, or left dead on their property as a warning.
2. Armed Intimidation and Physical Threats The Mallerys have been subjected to constant threats of lethal violence. Neighbors have trespassed onto their land, chased CW off his own property, and pointed firearms at them. Recently, this escalated to blinding green laser sights from firearms being pointed directly into their vehicles at dusk. They have had racial and misogynistic slurs hurled at them over their fence lines, and neighbors have reportedly attempted to ram them with vehicles while they were out in public.
3. Property Destruction and Constant Surveillance Their property has been repeatedly vandalized. Fences and gates have been damaged or destroyed over a dozen times to allow animals to escape or to grant trespassers access. Their security cameras have been smashed. Meanwhile, neighbors have kept them under intense surveillance, doxxing them online and writing down the license plate numbers of anyone who visits the ranch.
4. The Weaponization of Law Enforcement Perhaps the most egregious part of their ordeal is the response of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. Instead of protecting the Mallerys, the department was weaponized against them.
When the Mallerys installed security cameras to catch the people killing their animals and vandalizing their property, the Sheriff’s department used those cameras as a pretext to issue warrants for the Mallerys.
In early 2023, CW and Nicole were arrested and hit with felony stalking charges, petty theft, and tampering.
They were forced to bond out of jail with the help of the Rocky Mountain NAACP.
Prosecutors later dropped the charges, exposing the arrests as a baseless intimidation tactic meant to silence them and force them off their land.
🚨 HOW YOU CAN HELP TODAY: Pick Just ONE Thing To Do 🚨
I cannot do this all on my own. We need mass public pressure to break through the local corruption. Please look at the list below and pick just one office, news desk, or official to contact today. Call them, email them, tag them on social media, or send a fax. Demand accountability, demand an investigation into the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, and demand protection for the Mallery family.
🚓 LAW ENFORCEMENT & JUSTICE Demand that they drop the harassment of the Mallerys, investigate the racist terror in Yoder, and hold the perpetrators accountable.
El Paso County Sheriff Joseph Roybal
Phone (Main Office): (719) 520-7100
Fax: (719) 520-7171
Email (Public Info/Records): SHRRecordsRelease@elpasoco.com
Twitter/X: @epcsheriff
Michael J. Allen, District Attorney (4th Judicial District)
Phone: (719) 520-6000
Email: Michael@MichaelAllen4DA.com
🏛️ LOCAL EL PASO COUNTY OFFICIALS Demand that the County Commissioners step in and investigate the Sheriff’s Department’s handling of the Freedom Acres Ranch case.
El Paso County Board of County Commissioners (BoCC)
Main Office Phone: (719) 520-7276
Citizen Connect/Volunteer Email: Volunteer@elpasoco.com
District 1 Commissioner (Holly Williams): HollyWilliams@elpasoco.com
District 3 Commissioner (Bill Wysong): BillWysong@elpasoco.com
⚖️ STATE OFFICIALS Demand a state level investigation into civil rights violations and the failure of local El Paso County law enforcement to protect Black farmers.
Governor Jared Polis
Constituent Services Help Line: (303) 866-2885
Email: Governorpolis@state.co.us
Twitter/X: @GovofCO
Attorney General Phil Weiser
Phone: (720) 508-6000
Twitter/X: @COAttnyGeneral
📺 LOCAL NEWS DESKS (Colorado Springs) Send them the footage and the updates. Tell them to stop ignoring the domestic terrorism happening in their own backyard.
KRDO (Channel 13)
Newsroom Phone: (719) 575-6285
Email (Investigative Team): 13investigates@krdo.com
Twitter/X: @KRDONC13
KKTV (Channel 11)
Newsroom Phone: (719) 578-0000
Email: kktv-salesinfo@gray.tv
✊ CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS Urge them to continue providing legal defense and public advocacy for the Mallerys.
ACLU of Colorado
Phone: (303) 777-5482
Email (General): info@aclu-co.org
Twitter/X: @ACLUofColorado
NAACP Colorado (Aurora / Regional Branch)
Phone: (303) 366-2971
Email: NAACPAuroraColorado@gmail.com
Copy, paste, and share this everywhere. If you are reading this, please take 5 minutes to make one phone call or send one email. If we flood their inboxes and voicemails, they will not be able to sweep this under the rug anymore.
