Watch: Low attendance, brief skirmish mark Downtown “White Lives” rally

Published April 12th, 2021 at 6:23 am

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Proud Boys and other White supremacists organized for weeks to spark a national “White Lives Matter” day of action yesterday. In city after city, the result was mostly the same: almost no one showed up.

By that standard, Albuquerque’s rally was on par. Our Tierna Unruh-Enos reported from Civic Plaza where just a few White supremacists appeared. One man who arrived armed and with a child was cited by APD for child endangerment and escorted away by riot police. A brief fight broke out between one participant and a crowd of counter-protestors. You can see that video here.

Outside Minneapolis, police in Brooklyn Center shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop prompting protests which escalated overnight. The National Guard was called out to intervene. A few miles away, the trial of the first officer prosecuted for his role in the death of George Floyd is still underway.

Here come the attack ads. If you watched local TV this weekend, you probably saw a slew of political ads. The special election to fill Deb Haaland’s vacated Congressional seat is less than 60 days away. Both Republican Mark Moores and Democrat Melanie Stansbury launched soft “get to know me” ads last week, but Moores quickly pivoted to the attack with a new piece attacking Stansbury for not fighting to exempt Social Security income from state income taxes.

We fact-checked it and, guess what: Stansbury actually sponsored 3 pieces of legislation to do that in one session. Moores, for his part, has not sponsored any as far as we can tell. He did, however, sponsor legislation to lower taxes on expensive cigars. Read that story here.

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