Inside the Twisted Police Department That Kills Unarmed Citizens at the Highest Rate in the Country

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Inside-the-Twisted-Police-by-Max-Blumenthal-Albuquerque_Citizens-Arrest_Kill-Team_Police-Abuse-Of-Power-141208-545.html

Hyper-militarized cops here have killed residents with shocking impunity.


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When an Albuquerque police officer shot his 22-year-old son to death, Mike Gomez was determined to crusade for justice. Three years later, he is simply despondent.
"It's so frustrating," Gomez told me. "There's no accountability here. There's no justice. There's no respect. There's no humanity here. There's nothing. It's so disgusting that they get away with it."

A single father, Mike Gomez struggled for years to help his son, Alan, cope with a substance abuse problem. When Mike Gomez left town on May 10, 2011, Alan Gomez fell back into his addiction and was overcome with paranoid delusions. He began pacing back and forth on the front lawn of his brother's house, holding a conversation with an imaginary person about gang members assembling to kill him. Alarmed family members eventually phoned a dispatcher from the Albuquerque police, who summoned police to what she mistakenly believed was a hostage situation.

From across town, an off-duty cop named Sean Wallace heard the alert blare through his scanner, then barreled over to the scene before a crisis intervention officer could arrive. Without provocation, Wallace opened fire, killing Alan Gomez with a high-powered rifle as he entered the house through a screen door. The troubled young man was holding nothing in his hand but a plastic spoon.

FULL story at link.

[chowder66]

1. That is one spooky article.

I hope something is done about this.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Killer cop culture in Duke City, and too many other places.

We have to change the culture of policing.

A nice start would be actually putting some of these killer cops on trial.

[jwirr]

3. We are in big trouble if a cop only changes his mind about justice if his own son is killed by a cop

Somewhere there must be policemen who know that what is happening is wrong.

[Runningdawg]

4. NM

is also the place that has been in the news for extreme cavity searches. They "searched" one guy manually 4 or 5 times before taking him to the ER where a DR (FFS) complied with their requests for a forced enema and colonscopy. No contraband was ever recovered. That is not the only case that has made the news, but imagine the ones that didn't.

[hifiguy]

5. That there is absolutely no accountability is no accident.

It's all a part of the plan. The Geheime Staatspolizei weren't acountable either, save to their masters.