VIDEO: “Do You Have It Up Your Ass?”: Police In New Mexico Go Too Far

After the deputies obtained a search warrant, they handcuffed Young and drove him an hour away to the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico. Young was x-rayed and digitally probed without his consent.

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From Reason TV: In October of 2012, Timothy Young was pulled over for failing to use his turn signal in Lordsburg, New Mexico. When Hidalgo County deputies saw that Young’s companion had an open container, they asked to search the truck. Young consented. The search dragged on for more than two hours. Deputies eventually called in a K9 unit

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Albuquerque Protesters Put Police Chief ‘On Trial’

The Police Department is under scrutiny for over 40 police shootings — 26 of them fatal — since 2010, and the Justice Department has issued a harsh report over the agency’s use of force.

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Albuquerque Police Shootings

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Protesters advocating for drastic changes within a police agency criticized by the U.S. Justice Department over its use of force put the embattled police chief "on trial" during a rally Saturday. Hundreds of protesters, including some who brought children, marched from Roosevelt Park with signs and a makeshift coffin

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Feds Leave Radioactive Waste Stranded In Wildfire Danger Zone

DOE announces it will not meet deadline for removal of radioactive containers held above-ground at northern New Mexico nuclear weapons lab

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

The Department of Energy admitted Friday it will not meet a deadline to remove dangerous radioactive waste, currently stranded above-ground in unsafe conditions at a New Mexico nuclear weapons laboratory, before wildfire season hits. At least 3,706 cubic meters of radioactive waste are being stored at the Los Alamos National Laboratory complex

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Contamination Even More Widespread After Nuclear Dump Site Leak

WIPP is the nation’s only permanent underground repository where radioactive waste—including from nuclear weapons production—is dumped deep beneath the earth’s surface and stored in salt formations.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant pictured December 2004 (Photo: Wikimedia / Creative Commons)

Four more workers have now tested positive for radiation after being exposed to a February leak from an underground nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad, New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday, bringing the total number of contaminated workers to 21. The announcement came a day ahead of a DOE plan to send a team of experts into

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Riot Police Attack Albuquerque Police Brutality Protest (Video)

In recent years, Albuquerque police have been involved in more fatal police shootings than police departments in similar-sized cities and bigger, and residents have had enough.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

This is the raw video from the helmet cam of a Albuquerque officer involved in the killing of a man suspected of illegal camping, which set off peaceful protest in Albuquerque. The protests were later dispersed with riot police and tear gas by the Albuquerque PD. Following two fatal police shootings last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

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Hours Long Protest ‘Mayhem’ In Albuquerque

The protesters repeatedly marched the 2 miles from downtown Albuquerque to the University of New Mexico, holding signs protesting recent police shootings.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque's mayor said that a more than 10-hour protest over recent police shootings turned from peaceful into "mayhem," as officers in riot gear clashed with hundreds of protesters who blocked traffic, tried to get on freeways and shouted anti-police slogans. Mayor Richard Berry said Sunday that one officer was

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