Richard Berry said one officer was injured, rocks were thrown and at one point protesters trapped police in a vehicle and tried to break the windows, the Albuquerque Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1i6XLC3 ). An Associated Press reporter saw gas canisters being thrown and Albuquerque police and Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies charging at the crowds late Sunday.
Berry didn't know of any arrests, and multiple messages left for the police department weren't immediately returned. Video by KRQE-TV shows people being led away in zip-tie restraints, but it's unclear if those people were arrested of if any protesters were injured.
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A different protester, Alexander Siderits, 23, said he was participating because he was "fed up" with how police treat citizens. "It has reached a boiling point," he said, "and people just can't take it anymore."
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Justice Department has been investigating the department for more than a year, looking into complaints of civil rights violations and allegations of excessive use of force.
The gathering came days after a YouTube video emerged threatening retaliation for a recent deadly police shooting.
I guess people are coming out of their parents basements, eh cop?
Bring it on basement dwellers.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is not being able to fire a bad police department. We need private agencies to compete for the job or contract by providing better services.
ReplyDeleteI want some of these corrupt cops gone and if you have to shoot them, then by all means... They have no regard for our life or safety so, why should we care for their safety? They shoot you for not following an unlawful order so yeah time for an eye for an eye...
ReplyDelete"Bring it on....."? Tough talk from someone who is outnumbered by millions.
ReplyDeleteAcross this nation, you short little midgets, who are only tough when its 5 against one, have pissed off enough people (and killed thousands) where you better start thinking why entire towns are erupting in anger. You shoot people in the back, shoot people who are being held hostage, and shoot people who are in their house while you raid the wrong address. You shoot unarmed citizens like its target practice. Then your "brothers" investigate (that's YOUR term --- we, the people call it "rubberstamping") and find 99% (that's NOT a misprint) are "justified".
You shoot unarmed kids and call it a "good shoot". That's what we are going to call it, too when the tables start turning. And from the looks of things, the turning is beginning.
Better be careful. You don't have enough people, guns or ammo. We, however, have plenty
of all of that.
I am sure this is all about "Race", if a white cop has to shoot a black criminal, it is suddenly the police are bad!
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ReplyDeleteBring it on basement dwellers.
March 31, 2014 at 9:27 AM
lol are you even old enough to carry a gun
New Mexico has systematically become a Federal Government bastion ..and a Progressive stronghold.
ReplyDeleteThe Police in this town seem to me to be networked with smuggling cartels in Mexico. I have read about Automobile and Gun networks and has been a Highway in the Fast and Furious operation.
This reminds me of the sanctions on Saddam the Clintons the UN and Soros all exploited in Iraq and Hillary was so quick to put on Iran.. Who today Obama refuses to even cast a single dispersion upon..while he plays the Game of Risk with Putin and now has his sanctions pointed Russia's way.
(I remember Biden in the VP Debate claiming they knew what to expect in Iran..even though they were supposedly starving the Iranian children with sanctions according to the lapdog press)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In a rare show of displeasure with the troubled Police Department, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry said Monday it was wrong for the new police chief to say officers were justified in killing a homeless camper in the Sandia foothills.
ReplyDeleteBerry also said he wants to bring in outsiders to help investigate the killing that came as the department is under federal scrutiny after notching three dozen shootings since 2010.
Berry criticized Police Chief Gorden Eden for making a premature judgment about the fatal shooting of 38-year-old James Boyd on March 16.
"The chief got asked an honest question and he gave an honest answer," Berry said. "Unfortunately, it was premature and a mistake, and that will not happen again."
immclain all we have to do is sit back and let the criminals do it for us! appears around here anyway that's pretty much what's going on. Even the criminals aren't stupid enough to piss off the general public!
ReplyDelete1:33....may I point out that, in the eyes of the Gestapo, we are ALL potential killers and terrorists. That's why so many of us (unarmed)citizens get murdered each year. They are so afraid of everyone that the slightest move, such as "turning away", or "reaching for your registration" or "reaching for your walking cane" (which 70 year old men should NEVER do, because before a cop can even identify what the object is, he ASSUMES its a rifle and blasts away). But he was sorry and that's the main thing.
ReplyDeleteWell, actually, that's NOT the main thing. I made that part up. The main thing is any encounter with the local SS can turn into your last day on earth. HUNDREDS of citizens EVERY YEAR find that out. And 99% of them deserved it.
I made that "deserving" part up, too....
Imclain is right 9:27. What will you do when the hunter becomes the hunted? When your little nine won't even get close to what's pointed at you, you'll cry like a baby.
ReplyDeleteIt was a peaceful demonstration until the po-po showed up.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly.
Why do they feel the need to create a problem when there isn't any?
Go back to your donuts and coffee and let them protest.... peacefully.
The state of Indiana has the right idea:
ReplyDeleteThe law states:
(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to:
(1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force;
(2) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful entry of or attack on the person’s dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or
(3) prevent or terminate the public servant’s unlawful trespass on or criminal interference with property lawfully in the person’s possession, lawfully in possession of a member of the person’s immediate family, or belonging to a person whose property the person has authority to protect.
It is through legislation such as this, which will empower people again and aid in bringing down these tyrants from their pedestals, who are given free rein to murder and pillage without consequence.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/state-passes-law-legalize-self-defense-police/#5DkzVHckiFD6bIjR.99
Not a word about this civil uprising on ANY news station this morning. Beiber reports, cooking tips, stories about Susan Rice's lying, and some spring fashion advice.
ReplyDeleteBut 'we, the people" protesting (on a large scale) the murders of 20+ citizens in the last few years by the police in ONE town? Not a peep. Not even a scroll across the bottom of the screen...
Who thinks that the news is not manipulated and we are only told what they want us to hear?
This is just ONE town in this country. Don't, for a minute, think this is some aberration. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people are killed by the police EVERY YEAR. And 99% are "justified"??! The only ones who believe THAT are the police and the ones who can't stop cheering long enough to think about what a wildly absurd statistic that is....
Keep cheering. You could easily be next. And DON'T think because you aren't doing anything wrong, you're exempt from getting killed. It would be "justified", but you aren't exempt.....