ABQ Police sent an entire SWAT team to "resolve" a warrant for someone accused of violating parole. During that event, a teenager died from the smoke from a fire started by SWAT. AND, the destroyed home has left a family homeless.
WHY? #NMpol 1/
Actually, we know why...
We couldn't possibly say it any better than Elizabeth did here in this interview. Please watch: 2/
"They didn't send a family member, they didn't send a friend, they didn't send a chaplain, they didn't send a pastor, they didn't send an elder; they didn't send someone comfortable to make them come out."
When force is the only tool available it's the only tool used. 3/
Waiting for "official findings" from the police doesn't change the fact that the police, as an institution, escalated a situation involving a CHILD and someone wanted for a parole violation into a military-level conflict with heavily armored SWAT using military-grade munitions 4/