that. i do know now you can always find public records and different addresses of where people live but i think no longer are we just going to have those on everyone s website with their home address especially with families and children living at home, so these are things that, you know, i know the rest of america is probably already had to do. but, you know, frank lir we prided ourselves on not having to and now we re taking the oppositeach and the other one is around security. we are very clear that now whet detection technology or whether it s surveillance cameras or license plate readers, we re going to have it, and that s how we have at least some confidence that you will get caught. we will hold you to justice because it s much more difficult to get away with something like this in albuquerque, than it was just even a couple of years ago. yeah, all of this requiring leadership. mayor, thank you for your leadership and thanks for your time. i appreciate it. thank you. it s
what you are seeing and the evidence that s coming forward, i know you re guilty or not guilty you re not guilty until proven innocent and that sort of thing, and evidence is pretty clear it seems to me, and that s why he s been arrested. yeah. but this this kind of action, it s just so disturbing to me. it really saddens me that people would do things like that. i do believe that, you know, my level of vulnerability has certainly gone up. i ve never felt that way. this community i ve lived in, i was born in albuquerque, so my family has been here a long time. i know a lot of people. i ve got a really strong, supportive community, you know, strong family. families here, just never expected anything like this. it was just very shocking, very disturbing. yeah. understood. it s disturbing for all of us in the abstract, but you ve just lived through what appears to be
war, to achieve political change. in the next hour, we ll have a chance to talk to the district attorney in this case. first, vaughn hillyard is there on the ground following this developing story for us in albuquerque, new mexico. miles still with us as well. vaughn, take me through the latest. reporter: nicolle, this initial hearing wrapped up in the last half hour here in which the judge ruled he would be held without bond here. i just came down the road, two miles from here, where one of those four democratic officials whose homes were shot up showed me 12 different bullet holes inside of her adobe home. when you look at the gravity of what we re talking about, talking about individuals and debbie o malley, county commissioner here, tasked with certifying the local election, she first met solomon pena, the man arraigned today, just days after the november election in which notably he lost by nearly
key committee assign s as we track the rise in violent rhetoric from some members of the republican caucus alongside the rise in political violence in america, there is also this. in the last hour in albuquerque, new mexico, a former republican candidate for that state s state legislature solomon pena was arraigned on charges relating to a string of shootings at the homes of pena s democratic rivals. as more details about the suspect come into focus, it appears he ticked several of the proverbial boxes we often see in election denying violent rhetoric adhering far right republicans. pena was in the crowd on january 6th, listening to donald trump on the ellipse, though there is no evidence pena actually stormed into the capitol. in his own race in new mexico, he cited election fraud and refused to concede. even though he lost by nearly 50 percentage points, 5-0. he told police investigators he was in favor of, quote, civil
probably seen and you know some of the postings he s made and the election denying stuff. but, you know, i m a firm and strong believer in the first amendment and people s ability to talk about what they choose to talk about. but everybody needs to be aware that when you are taking things to an extreme and you have people this, unfortunately, may be the next step to extremism that we re seeing in albuquerque, it s a problem now in this community, it s a problem, i think, across the country that we ve now had it so that politics is becoming violent politics, and that is just unacceptable. we need to make sure we continue to have the respect for the rule of law, we re going to make sure over here. you know, one of the capital police officers who responded to the january 6th insurrection pleaded with congress, his name is harry dunn, and he made the point not just to find the foot