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between what the department has reported about the incident and what was captured on video. Department spokeswoman Celina Westervelt also confirmed Tuesday that an attorney for Dawn Bourgeois — the 40-year-old cab driver By Phaedra Haywood who sustained a black eye when she was taken The New Mexican to the ground by Gutierrez during the March 30 traffic stop — has filed a tort claim notice that A Santa Fe police officer accused of using she may file a civil suit against the department. excessive force when he arrested a taxi driver The department is conducting an internal just after midnight last month has resigned from review of the incident, Westervelt said, and if it the department. determines that a criminal act of police brutalNo criminal charges have been filed against ity may have occurred, the results of the review the former officer, Jose Gutierrez, but dashwill be forwarded to New Mexico State Police board camera footage of the arrest taken from his patrol car shows at least one inconsistency Please see CABBY, Page A-4
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Three members cite frustrations over inability to make changes By Patrick Malone The New Mexican
Three members of Albuquerque’s Police Oversight Commission resigned Tuesday, expressing frustration that the committee of volunteer citizens is powerless to effect change in the city’s embattled police department. The resignations by a third of the nine-member civilian board are the latest blow to the image of a department that has come under scathing criticism from residents and activists over officers’ frequent use of deadly force. In a report issued last week, the U.S. Justice Department found a pattern of police violence and civil rights violations. In letters to Mayor Richard Berry, commissioners Jennifer Barela, Richard Shine and Jonathan Siegel said the board charged with reviewing citizen complaints against police has been handcuffed. They blamed the commission’s impotence on the limited scope of the ordinance that created it, the city’s collective bargaining agreement with its police
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one and visit them regularly,” the governor told about 75 people gathered Tuesday at the New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial in Albuquerque. As a result, she said, more people are choosing to bury deceased military veterans in private or public cemeteries. She said her mother-in-law chose to bury her husband, a Navy vet-
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eran, in a cemetery in Las Cruces so she could visit his grave regularly. The four communities were chosen for a variety of reasons, including the number of veterans living in each community, said Timothy Hale, secretary of the
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that we have earned the public’s trust, and we think we should be given an opportunity to show that we can make this work.” In 1976, complaints about huge crowds, public drinking and violent incidents led organizers to delay the entire Fiesta until after Labor Day weekend in an effort to make the event more manageable and locally oriented. Then 16 years ago, after a bloody incident on the Plaza following the burning of Zozobra,
Fe and for the past 16 years has been held on a Thursday night, would be separated by a week from the formal start of the traditional or the first time in nearly four decades, community celebration. Zozobra will burn on the Friday before With the backing of the Santa Fe Fiesta Labor Day if the city approves the latCouncil, the Kiwanis Club on Wednesday est plan by the Kiwanis Club of Santa plans to file for a special events permit from Fe, which stages the event. the city to hold Zozobra on Aug. 29, the FriThe popular ritual torching of Old Man day before Labor Day. Gloom at the Fort Marcy park, which has “We’re ready for this,” Ray Sandoval, Zozobra event chairman, said Tuesday. “We think long been tied to the annual Fiesta de Santa
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