Posted on 04/19/2021 9:42:01 AM PDT by lowbridge
More than a dozen officers resigned from the city’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) after an officer was disciplined for detaining an armed man who was taunting protesters.
The resignations included seventeen specially trained officers, two sergeants, and a lieutenant.
Shaun Willoughby, President of the Albuquerque Police Officers’ Association said:
“They don’t feel supported here, and they don’t feel trust. They feel second-guessed, and they don’t feel that they can do their job, no matter how perfect they do their job, without getting in trouble.”
The mass resignations came following a counterprotest to a Proud Boys rally that was scheduled but never occurred at Civic Plaza over the weekend.
Williams had attended the protest with his family and claimed not to be a member of the Proud Boys. Police said that armed with the rifle, Williams got into a tense standoff with counterprotesters, and officers stepped in, escorting Williams into the convention center.
Police said Deyontae Williams came to the counterprotest armed with a rifle and was taunting demonstrators. Albuquerque police officers from the ERT detained the man and removed him from the location.APD spokesperson Gilbert Gallegos said a child with Williams raised concerns:
“There was a lot of concern throughout because this gentleman did have a child with him.”
Gallegos said that there was confusion over whether Williams was going to be charged with a crime and that there was a breakdown in the chain of command during the incident which caused the confusion.
The confusion resulted in a sergeant being put on leave after the incident:
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However, Willoughby said the issue was not just about confusion. He said officers cannot do their jobs and do not have the backing of the department:
(Excerpt) Read more at lawenforcementtoday.com ...
Just like a day without a mexican how about a day with out cops
ALL cops in towns of populations over 300k should walk off the job... let the savages riot and burn the homes of the white, marxist overlords.
Send in the social workers!
Will the pace pick up as long as democommie dumbness keep kneeling and groveling to the miscreants?
These weren’t by chance the same guys that shot the un-armed homeless guy just out of town a few years back?
No government employee unions is the answer.
Then let natural selection take over.
Deep State is loving this.
I’m thinking they’d love to do away with state and local controlled LE, replace it with federalized LE.
What is the total size of the ERT unit???
The “Ferguson Effect” is real—regardless of what every academic “expert” claims...
They might have felt more supported if they had arrested the so called ‘protesters’ instead...
the good guys have got to reign in the rogue cops ...
because we WANT to support them but its difficult sometimes when they pull the cop, judge, and jury and executioner crap.
Exactly. Then you have idiots, like the city of Minneapolis leader ship, who act all surprised how the crime has skyrocketed after they threw the police under the bus and a bunch resigned in the ones that remained basically stepped back and stopped being proactive.
Overall, GOOD!
De Police the Marxist Left Blue Jurisdictions as much as possible, in any way possible.
The officers only quit their voluntary participation on ert. They are still Albuquerque cops. It’s a start tho.
yep, SJW indoctrinated
“because we WANT to support them but its (sic) difficult sometimes when they pull the cop, judge, and jury and executioner crap.”
Can you provide any examples of where police have pulled the cop, judge, jury and executioner crap?
It’s obvious that “the communist plan” is to eliminate local law enforcement agencies and replace them with a centralized state police. The commies want all local police to quit.
Unfortunately, I can. This Dallas deputy decided that he was going to be a law unto himself and accosted a motorcyclist who he had no probable cause over in order to seize a camera he had no right to get.
https://jalopnik.com/the-dallas-cop-who-arrested-a-biker-with-a-helmet-cam-h-5946658
“The Gentleman, Deyontae Williams” .....
Yet again another dangerous Amish man in the news!
“I’m thinking they’d love to do away with state and local controlled LE, replace it with federalized LE.”
I think you hit the nail on the head. They could and probably are paving the way for for the usurpers federal police force.
(brown shirts) They always think/plan far ahead.
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