While Americans were focused on the ugliness emanating from Los Angeles on Saturday, a horrific event unfolded in Bogota, Colombia. Senator Miguel Uribe, a leading contender in that nation's presidential race next year, was shot while delivering a speech Saturday afternoon. 

Colombian senator Miguel Uribe, in the running to join next year’s presidential race, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot at an event in Bogota, allegedly by a 15-year old boy.

The 39-year-old, from the center-right Centro Democrático – or Democratic Center – the biggest opposition party in the South American nation, had expressed his intention to run in next year’s election.

He was shot twice on Saturday afternoon in the capital’s Fontibon district, according to the General Prosecutor’s Office. Police said the 15-year-old was carrying a Glock pistol when he was arrested.

There is video of the shooting — some of it quite graphic. This below captures the moments immediately preceding the shooting and the chaos after, without showing the actual shot or injury, but is still disturbing.

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