On the attack

APD’S FACEBOOK PAGE linked to a news release it posted on the city website that took a local judge to task for refusing a prosecutor’s request to hold a woman without bail for shooting and wounding her husband.

It reads: “This is not the person that we want on the streets of Albuquerque or to be around children. Detectives ... show frustration when violent offenders like this are released from custody.”

The Facebook post didn’t mention that the victim filed an affidavit saying the shooting was unintentional; the wife has been her husband’s primary caretaker the nine months since the shooting; the court’s Pretrial Services recommended she be released on her own recognizance or that CYFD is planning to reunite the couple with their children.

APD USED ITS Facebook page to take KOB-TV to task after a reporter obtained video from a nearby business showing the tragic April 17 collision between an APD officer’s cruiser and a minivan carrying a mother and her two young children — one of whom died. APD claimed KOB “refused” to provide a copy of the video and was “irresponsible.” KOB’s news director said APD never asked for the video and, if it had, it would have been provided.

APD’s inaccurate post was followed by more than 100 comments condemning KOB, calling it and other local media “vermin” and claiming reporters should be charged with crimes. APD eventually took the post down after meeting with KOB.