A PACKED HOUSE AT LAST (MON) NIGHT'S ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TAKING PUBLIC COMMENT ON APD AND ITS OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS. HUNDREDS ATTENDED THE MEETING … MANY SITTING IN OVERFLOW VENUES AS COUNCIL CHAMBERS COULD ONLY HOLD 241 PEOPLE.
RESEARCHER NICOLE MORELAND … WHO SAYS HER BROTHER WAS SHOT THREE YEARS AGO BY APD OFFICERS … TOLD THE COUNCIL THE PROBLEM IS NOT JUST WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. SHE SAYS THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY OVERALL RESPONSE TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
STATE LULAC DIRECTOR RALPH ARELLANES SPOKE ABOUT HIS SON BEING BRUTALIZED BY OFFICERS IN 2007 … THEN LYING UNDER OATH ABOUT THE CASE. HIS SON WAS LATER FOUND INNOCENT. ARELLANES SAYS LAST MONTH'S KILLING OF HOMELESS CAMPER JAMES BOYD SHOWS APD HAS NOT ADDRESSED OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTINGS.
THE MEETING RAN ON FOR FIVE HOURS. MAYOR BERRY WAS EXPECTED TO ATTEND … BUT DIDN'T. THERE WERE LOUD JEERS FROM THE CROWD WHEN COUNCIL PRESIDENT KEN SANCHEZ ANNOUNCED THAT BERRY WOULDN'T BE THERE.
