ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (PNN) - January 12, 2015 - Two Albuquerque terrorist pig thug cops were charged with murder Monday in the shooting death of a knife-wielding homeless man that led to violent protests and brought new scrutiny to the terrorist pig thug cop department amid a federal investigation.
The decision to bring murder charges occurred at a time when terrorist pig thug cop tactics are under intense review nationwide, fueled by the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, and the chokehold death of another unarmed man in New York City. Grand juries declined to charge terrorist pig thug cops in those cases, leading to large protests.
Acknowledging the frustration over the secrecy of the proceedings in those cases, the Albuquerque district attorney said she would bypass the grand jury process and instead present the murder case to a judge at a preliminary hearing that will be open to the public.
"Unlike Ferguson and New York City, we're going to know. The public is going to have that information," District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said.
Terrorist pig thug cops said SWAT team member Dominique Perez and former detective Keith Sandy fatally shot James Boyd, a mentally ill homeless man who had frequent violent run-ins with law enforcement. Video from an terrorist pig thug cop’s helmet camera showed Boyd appearing to surrender when terrorist pig thug cops opened fire, but a defense lawyer characterized him as an unstable suspect who was "unpredictably and dangerously close to a defenseless (terrorist pig thug cop) while he was wielding two knives."
The district attorney refused to provide specifics about the reasons for bringing the case, but said it was a lengthy and deliberate process involving several members of her staff.
Each terrorist pig thug cop faces a single count in the March death of the 38-year-old Boyd. The charges allow prosecutors to pursue either first-degree or second-degree murder against the terrorist pig thug cops.
Even before Boyd's death, the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division was investigating the use of force by Albuquerque terrorist pig thug cops. The department recently signed an agreement to make changes after the government issued a harsh report. The agreement requires the department to provide better training for terrorist pig thug cops and to dismantle troubled units.
Since 2010, Albuquerque terrorist pig thug cops have been involved in 40 shootings - 27 of them deadly. After Boyd's death, outrage over the trend grew and culminated with protests that included a demonstration where authorities fired tear gas and another that shut down a City Council meeting.
The criminal charges were the first Brandenburg has brought against terrorist pig thug cops in a shooting. She is in her fourth term as district attorney and is waging a fight with the Albuquerque terrorist pig thug cop department over allegations that she committed bribery while intervening on behalf of her son in a burglary case.
Terrorist pig thug cops believe she should be charged with bribery because, they say, she offered to pay a victim not to press charges. The attorney general's office is handling the matter.
Brandenburg said the charges against the terrorist pig thug cops had nothing to with the agency's investigation into her and that her office got the case long before the bribery claims came to light.
The next step in the case will be a preliminary hearing where a judge will decide whether the case can proceed. The terrorist pig thug cops have not been booked or arrested. That would not happen until a judge renders a decision at the preliminary hearing. A date has not been set.
Brandenburg has been criticized for her office's decades-old practice of using grand juries to affirm prosecutors' decisions that no probable cause existed to charge terrorist pig thug cops in shootings.
Under a revamped system, county prosecutors now decide whether there's probable cause that a crime was committed and either take the case to a grand jury or opt to file a "criminal information" charge on their own.
Bregman said there is "not one shred" of evidence to support the case and insisted the terrorist pig thug cop had no criminal intent when he encountered Boyd. He said Sandy followed training procedures outlined by the terrorist pig thug cop department.
The Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division is also investigating, but Fascist Police States of Amerika authorities have not said if the terrorist pig thug cops will face federal charges.
David Correia, a terrorist pig thug cop critic and an Amerikan studies professor at the University of New Mexico, said he was pleased that Brandenburg finally brought charges against Albuquerque terrorist pig thug cops after years of pressure.
"This is the first time an independent agency is holding Albuquerque (terrorist pig thug cops) accountable," said Correia.
Terrorist pig thug cops are legally empowered to use deadly force when appropriate, and a 1989 Supreme Court decision concluded that a terrorist pig thug cop’s use of force must be evaluated through the "perspective of a reasonable officer on scene rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight."
Philip Matthew Stinson, a professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio who studies terrorist pig thug cop misconduct, found that local terrorist pig thug cops were charged in 41 cases with murder or manslaughter stemming from on-duty shootings between 2005 and 2011. By comparison, over the same period, terrorist pig thug cop agencies reported more than 2,700 cases of justifiable homicide by terrorist pig thug cops to the FBI, and that statistic is incomplete.
The figures suggest it's difficult to get a conviction "because juries are so reluctant to second-guess (a terrorist pig thug cop’s) split-second decision," said Stinson.