[CedarDave]

The report does not address the most recent death of a homeless man who appeared to be complying with police orders when he was shot and killed. He did not have a gun but a small pen-type knife. The lapel-video of the incident has provoked widespread criticism and protests of APD tactics.

A completely different result occurred two days ago when a disturbed man with a gun threatened to kill himself. In this case the police talked him into surrendering and did not shoot him.

The full 46-page report can be found at this link:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/217461565/U-S-Department-of-Justice-findings-letter-of-Albuquerque-Police-Department-APD-use-of-force

[TMSuchman]

The dry tinder has gathered, blown in by the 4 winds, all it is gonna take is 1 spark from some very stupid person on either side & we’ll have a shootin war, the likes that would make the last civil war look like a church choir practice!

[Mariner]

Darn, I wish DOJ was not such a political animal, totally corrupt.

For all we know all these incidents could be totally justified, but involve minorities.

[CedarDave]

Timeline, stories, settlements, etc. at this link:

http://www.abqjournal.com/apd-under-fire#timeline

[BuffaloJack]

We no longer have police officers. We have Monsters in body armor and trained in SWAT.

[SolidRedState]

i spent one night in Hellbuqurque.

Never again.

[Scoutmaster]

From the report:

"Albuquerque police used unreasonable force when they deployed a barrage of less lethal weapons at Albert, a 60-year-old man who was intoxicated and began arguing with his friend in March 2009. The friend called police twice, the second time reporting that Albert had threatened him with a knife and a pellet gun. Forty-seven officers responded to the scene, including snipers and officers from specialized tactical units. After some delay, Albert complied with officers' orders to drop a knife that he was holding while standing at the doorway and walked outside unarmed. After additional delay, he stopped and began to turn.

At that point, an officer was ordered to bag him. An officer fired five successive rounds of beanbags at Albert with a shotgun. Another officer deployed a flash-bang grenade. Another officer shot him with a canister of four wooden batons, two of which penetrated his skin. Another officer deployed a police canine that bit Albert in the arm, tearing his flesh as the canine tried to pull him down.

Albert grabbed onto a nearby fence. Two officers fired Tasers at Albert; one of them fired six five-second cycles of electricity into him. Albert finally collapsed, and officers carried him away unconscious, leaving behind a trail of bloodand urine. In an April 2012 order entering judgment as a matter oflaw in Albert's favor, District Judge Bruce Black found that no reasonable person could believe that an inhibited, slow-moving, 60-year-old individual, who made no physical or verbal threats, and wielded no weapons, could constitute a threat to the safety of any of the forty-seven armed and shielded police officers who stood over twenty feet away."

[veracious]

Are they going to investigate their own brutality in Neveda at Bundy Ranch?!