City councilors across the political spectrum blasted responses the Albuquerque Police Department’s (APD) official social media account made to private citizens — calling them “embarrassing” and “never acceptable.”
It’s not the first time this has come up. Last year, councilors criticized Mayor Tim Keller’s administration for letting APD make similar posts.
“Here we are, a year later, allowing behavior like this to continue and escalate,” Councilor Brook Bassan said during the City Council meeting Wednesday. “It’s really embarrassing, and I hope something gets done about it the second time, because the first time we were promised that something would be done about it and it wouldn’t happen again.”
The Monday night posts on X — formerly known as Twitter — were in response to frequent critics of the administration, former Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White, commercial property owner Douglas Peterson and Thomas Grover, a former APD officer who is now an attorney. The account, which has more than 108,000 followers, also questioned reporting by online news outlet ABQ Raw.