HUNDREDS TURN OUT FOR TUESDAY NIGHT'S PROTEST RALLY AGAINST THE GRAND JURY DECISION IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI. AND ALBUQUERQUE ACTIVISTS JOINED OTHERS IN CITIES ACROSS THE NATION DEMONSTRATING AGAINST THE DECISION TO NOT INDICT WHITE OFFICER DARREN WILSON FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH LAST AUGUST OF UNARMED BLACK TEEN MICHAEL BROWN.
ALBUQUERQUE'S RALLY STARTED AT SAN MATEO AND CENTRAL AROUND 6PM … AND THE CROWD TEMPORARILY BLOCKED TRAFFIC FOR A WHILE … THEN MOVED DOWN CENTRAL TO UNM. STATE POLICE WERE IN FULL TACTICAL GEAR AT APD'S SUBSTATION AT GIRARD AND CENTRAL … AND ASIDE FROM ONE MAN WHO WAS STOPPED BY OTHER PROTESTERS FROM BURNING AN AMERICAN FLAG … THE RALLY WAS PEACEFUL.
ALBUQUERQUE ACTIVISTS EQUATE THE POLICE SHOOTING OF BROWN WITH THAT OF HOMELESS CAMPER JAMES BOYD HERE IN ALBUQUERQUE LAST MARCH.
