PROTESTORS TURN OUT IN FORCE AT MONDAY NIGHT'S ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. THE PROTESTERS ARE STILL UPSET OVER ABQ POLICE OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS … THE MOST RECENT OCCURRING JUST LAST SATURDAY. THEY CARRIED SIGNS SLAMMING APD AND ACCUSED CHIEF GORDEN EDEN OF MURDER … SOME DEMANDED HE BE ARRESTED. EDEN AND DEPUTY CHIEF ERIC GARCIA WERE AT THE MEETING. THEY QUICKLY LEFT.
IT WAS SO INTENSE THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT KEN SANCHEZ CANCELED THE MEETING. AT ONE POINT COUNCILOR KLARISSA PENA TRIED TO TALK TO THE PROTESTERS… UNTIL THEY RUSHED THE BENCH. THEY WERE EVENTUALLY USHERED OUT OF COUNCIL CHAMBERS BY SECURITY GUARDS WHO SEARCHED ALL 11 FLOORS OF THE BUILDING TO MAKE SURE IT WAS SECURE.
THE MEETING IS RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY.
