One woman chained herself to an art case.
Others strung up crime-scene tape and shouted that the police chief should be fired.
It all happened inside the mayor’s suite on the top floor of City Hall on Monday, triggering the cancellation of the City Council meeting scheduled to start two hours later, which was to include discussion on a variety of bills centered on the Albuquerque Police Department.
Mayor Richard Berry was out of town, but his top administrator, Rob Perry, watched and later confronted protesters as they continued their sit-in.
The demonstration ended with the arrests of 13 people charged with criminal trespassing, unlawful assembly and interfering with a public official. One person, University of New Mexico assistant professor David Correia, was charged with a felony for pushing a member of the mayor’s security detail.
The sit-in lasted about 90 minutes and triggered a lockdown of City Hall.
The protest came four days after an autopsy report that showed police had shot and killed James Boyd in the back in March.
This makes me very ill. Let us be in prayer. What a mess.
Picture of Mayor Berry who was in New York at a conference.
