New Mexico remembers George Floyd one year after his death Share Updated: 10:42 PM MDT May 25, 2021 Share Updated: 10:42 PM MDT May 25, 2021
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Show Transcript GOVERNOR RECENTLY SIGNED INTO LAW THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AND SOME SAY TS ISHI SOME OF THE MOST SWEEPING POLICE REFORM LAWS IN THE COUNTRY. W SNOOME ACTIVISTS. I SPOKE WITH SAY STEPS ARE BEING MADE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE DEMANDFOS JTUS DEMANDS FOR CHANGE GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER SET OFF PROTESTS AND STARTED CONVERSATISON ON HOW NEW MEXICO NCA PREVENT SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOLLOWING THE AFTMATHER OF FLOYD’S KILLING LAWMAKERS INTRODUCEDHE T CIVIL RIGHTS ACT WHICH BANS QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. WE’RE CAUTIOUYSL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE THE EFFECTS OF OF THAT BILL QUALIFIED IMMUNYIT ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO SUE POLICE DEPARTMENTS IF THEY FEEL THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED, SOME COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS SAY BANNING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IS A STEP TORDWA CHANGE IN ORDER T
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Marchers protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers block Central in Downtown on May 31. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Last summer, as the movement against racial injustice swept the country, officials in the Albuquerque Police Department asked the Drug Enforcement Administration for the assistance of special agents to do undercover operations and surveillance at protests, according to an investigative report from the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington published on Friday.
The government watchdog group published emails from Kyle Williamson, the DEA’s special agent in charge at the El Paso division, to officials with the Department of Justice. It also published similar requests from police departments in Chicago and Philadelphia.
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On Feb. 18, Albuquerque’s newly minted alt-weekly The Paper published a “Being Black in NM'' special issue for Black History Month. The issue was intended to be a space to highlight Black voices, but featured a full-page advertisement from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
“This week, we asked our regular journalists and contributors to take a step back and give their space to Black writers, organizers and businesses to share their perspective on being Black in New Mexico,” the introduction to the special edition said.
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