Mother of man killed by Albuquerque Police Department speaks out - but not against officers

[@kr7603]

Poor mom for her loss but at least she is not placing blame on anyone else like alot of other parents do. It looks like she probably raised her son the best she could and somehow drugs found their way to her son. God bless her and her family. Sorry for your loss.

[@RamonLacuna]

Her loss is society's gain.

[@kr7603]

God hears what you say about his children.

[@daniel4412]

What a brave mother and a wonderful caring character. Hats off to you, I'm sorry for your loss, I'm sure your son had a wonderful years of life with a mother like you.

[@freebein]

Damn... this lady has gone through so much and is still capable of keeping a level mind, while grieving her son.

[@FLATEARTHKING007]

Such powerful words from a heartbroken mother. God bless you. Fuck fentanyl! And anyone who deals it. I lost 2 family members already and unfortunately waiting for one more if they don't get help soon.. 😢

[@MrStaybrown]

In a society where people just blame everyone up to the president, this strong woman is down to earth and actually sees the issue at hand, without leaning on make believe conspiracies.

[@escapedgoat5865]

Refreshing to see a parent that recognizes the police are not the problem the person actions and drug is. And open borders is not helping. And she is right 200 thousand pills isnt that much but its still something to be celebrated to be off the streets even if its a drop in the bucket.

[@bradhuff256]

In this case, amateur hour, non-professional policing was a direct contributor to her son's death. She is abdicating her own responsibility by writing off the failures of the police. It is in fact possible for her son to have been the reason the cops were there, and the cops would be to blame for how they managed the event. BOTH can be wrong. at the same time.

[@escapedgoat5865]

@@bradhuff256 he grabbed the officer gun and shot it. How exactly is this the cops fault.

[@bradhuff256]

@@escapedgoat5865 Really? Are you really this stupid? The one cop most likely to be engaged in hand to hand with the subject was carrying a rifle around his neck..... why, exactly?

[@LMcQuinn]

You took the words right out of my mouth! I'm with you 100%!

[@pantsarmstrong863]

@@bradhuff256 You didn't watch the video or are just plain dumb. Probably both.

[@johnwhitaker8383]

Can't imagine what it's like for this woman. She takes accountability. Something a lot of people will not do. Just saying.

[@paulsierra6722]

My prayers are with you mom. Speak up your not alone JESUS is with you

[@chrisrambicure5355]

It should be an automatic 20 years if caught with a single pill. This drug is ruining our community and our families.

[@WELVAS.]

When people have nothing to lose, twenty years or even a life sentence means nothing to them. The real solution is addiction treatment services and sobriety programs being acessible to everyone. He lost his treatment after losing Medicaid coverage.

[@xavierlepoma1409]

This woman just made me cry real tears bro the amount of strength it takes to be honest like this despite your feelings it’s a power not many of us possess but if we did the world would be a better place

[@shumla7ranch]

One of the strongest women I have ever seen. And [her reaction] one of the rarest under these circumstances.

[@KingNothing2x4]

wait a minute... What about Kamala !!!!!!

[@margaretbaros5445]

God help us all 🙏🏼 pls… lost my lil sis bc of fentanyl.. almost lost my son and brother if it wasn’t for them going to prison now.. we all as a community need to help each other to try to help our ppl may our dear lord help us pls I pray for us all.. sorry for your loss

[@hugostiglitz5976]

There you go, pawning your responsibilities off on the community. Just imagine who your son could have been if you were actually in a position to raise him to be a successful member of society? The ability to have kids should be like homeownership. No money? No income? No credit history? Not willing to put in the time, work, or have the skills to build it yourself? Then you’ll always be renting, living off someone else, or homeless. Single with 4 kids is like trying to keep up with the cost and maintenance of a 20k sqft house on a 50k a year salary. Good luck keeping the lights on, or even just cutting the grass. You better have the resources to keep it from being foreclosed or condemned.

[@Kat_Gallagher]

My sincere condolences Janetta.

[@WELVAS.]

She is bringing a lot of awareness needed for positive change

[@erinmachek961]

What a brave mother. Sending my love and prayers to your momma heart. I pray something is done about these drugs the destruction of them is devastating and tragic. May God bless your heart.

[@BrendaMartinez-ep9mj]

Blame the government

[@SouLo_47]

The biggest corp in America

[@a.j.carmichael8156]

Heartbreaking.

[@techn9cian09]

I’m sorry for your loss. Don’t blame yourself for his decisions. When they’re that deep in a hole, they’re the only ones that can pull themselves out. I hope you and your family find peace.

[@lincolnneb]

What a classy woman. She's doing professional work with some of the many, many people whose lives get flipped upside down so quickly by drugs. Like she said, the first experience with fentanyl can lead to lifelong addiction. I'm sure her son quickly became a person she hardly knew. I hope she continues to help addicts and their families try to find ways to deal with the often devasting consequences of drug addiction.

[@pir8prod]

Refreshing to hear someone not blame the police.

[@bradhuff256]

Do you honestly think the cops did a professional job here? I get that you hear a lot about how your cops failed, but just because someone doesn't have the courage to blame them, doesn;t mean they did not fail...... again. Who thought it was smart to bring a rifle around the neck to a fistfight? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the victim. Is there ANY failure you losers won;t make an excuse for?

[@markthompson7503]

It wasn't your fault mama. Please never blame yourself. As parents we must think how god loves us no matter, but when we choose free will it breaks his heart.

[@ScottPigeon]

Have the cops ever tried to find where they are getting the drugs, and then find that person's supplier, and so on? You could watch deals go down all day long behind any Circle K on Central. Heck, just watch for the hunched over people, their dealer is 200 feet away max.

[@escapedgoat5865]

I think they attempt to. I know that they post up near drug houses building a case and pulling over people when they leave. But they have to find something find someone to cooperate and have enough proof for a solid arrest. It's easier said then done. Especially with today's courts. U would be surprised how many people don't talk to save themselves because they need that dealer when they get out. Or don't want to me marked as a rat. After all they still are an addict after they get out on probation.

[@parellano100]

It's almost like they turn a blind eye to what's blatantly evident! 0️⃣

[@thatsright4046]

God bless people struggling with drug or alcohol addiction please take the desires away from people deserve too live a better life free from addiction

[@AndresDowPrieto]

I imagine there was no father in the picture.

[@gorg1199]

who gives a fuck what you imagine?

[@parellano100]

​@gorg1199 😅

[@Hiker_Mike]

The "recipe for disaster" is not teaching our children the HORRIFIC outcomes from taking bad paths in life. Drugs, alcohol, crime, children must be taught at an early age to avoid these things at all costs! Did this suspect have an active decent father in his life?

[@tonigutierrez654]

OMG,,, My son also was cut off medicate, he went thru hell until he qualified for Obama Care.. The System is broken..

[@Cucumberflavoredmustard]

Again with this separation of addiction and people. It is not a separate, sentient thing. The drugs didn't just fly themselves into someone's mouth while they are snoring.

[@bradhuff256]

You do realize that is not how addiction works, right?

[@Cucumberflavoredmustard]

@@bradhuff256 Life is a series of choices. Anything we do besides breathing requires a choice.

[@bradhuff256]

@@Cucumberflavoredmustard Again, this is not how addiction works, but you do you boo.

[@Tijereño]

The whole problem with fentanyl, literally the whole reason that it’s so dangerous, is that it very much does find itself into unexpected places because of how cheaply it is manufactured. That is why children are overdosing too.

[@bradhuffjr777]

Dang!

[@kek3908]

CLOSE THE BORDER.

[@WELVAS.]

Fentanyl also comes from within our border made at home

[@kek3908]

@@WELVAS. Irrelevant, CLOSE THE BORDER.

[@WELVAS.]

@@kek3908 So is thinking closing the border will solve the problem. Most fentanyl doesn't even come through the border. The root issue is with people, stop the demand with treatment and rehab programs, and all the drug dealers lose their job and less people die

[@deannharris2424]

Get the Republicans to do their jobs!

[@jasonlopez4855]

It is because of open borders because it was never this bad in Albuquerque. This drug is the worst thing ever people I know that take it only care's about one thing the fentanyl. They say that they would rather die then get off. Close the border

[@parellano100]

Addiction is 100% like an entity living in the addict!!! I've believed this to be true for decades. It's time to repent and change from our wicked ways...for our time is short. My deepest condolences to this sweet mother. 💝 The spiritual battle is real, people.

[@doloresdisalvo9451]

God bless you i know exactly what you we're going thru because my son addicted for idk how long now he has changed drastically living on the streets , i hold on to my faith and constantly pray but i agree something needs to b done 2 many lives gone already it's awful I am so deeply sorry for your loss . May god be with u and ur family . Lola

[@CeBme]

Continues to pray and have faith 🙏 ....

[@g505wickedqueen5]

Lost my father 2yrs ago to meth n pain killers

[@ScarletAdhesive]

I really appreciate the way you look at this situation. I am so tired of people blaming the police.

[@carmenduran2312]

CLOSE THE BORDER

[@deannharris2424]

Get the Republicans to do their jobs and stop listening to their cult leader.

[@Angel-bd4tn]

Lamentablemente los policías cuidan a los vendedores de droga en Estados Unidos o como se explican que ellos venden droga todos los días día y noche y nunca son arrestados policía parqueado enfrente de los negocios

[@parellano100]

They need to start driving around back... 👀

[@TheTexasTakebyMissVikie]

🙏🙏🙏

[@nonsuch]

99 times out of 100 it's the criminal's fault if they got killed by the Police. Speaking out against them is a moot point.

[@All5AJz]

I am in recovery now 8yrs and I so lucky to be alive and successful at my sobriety. to know i was almost one of the first fatalities when it first hit the streets gives me motivation to do what it takes to never go back again. don't fail your teens by not saying no to them. my friend recently lost her battle to fentanyl after 8months in detox to jail to rehab then thrown out for one puff brought into sober living facility. facing 8yrs for failing she went to an old friend's home, he left to get his tools from work to find her dead. jail or death such is the outcome for most of us except for the 1 in 100 who will beat it. This will only changes when parents start parenting stop chasing the bigger and better and actual parent their babies. prayers to all of your children and teens and young or older adults lost to this fatal allergy of the brain. 😪😪

[@_DB.COOPER]

She recognizes Huffsterism when she sees it. She knows democrat policies lead to things like this.

[@bradhuff256]

I am shocked that you are deflecting from piss poor policing again. Why, it's almost as if you do this sort of cowardly thing on cue.

[@bertog1217]

​@@bradhuff256Cause DB Cooper is a coward. And cowards do cowardly things.

[@WELVAS.]

And failed Republican policies***

[@Sicasevilis]

May God Bless you

[@Shade89240]

The problem lay on the border we need TRUMP

[@johngreene6783]

No, you need the Republicans in Congress to vote for the Bi-Partisan Border Bill instead of them refusing to pass it so that your hero, Trump, has something to campaign on. You folks who believe in Trump, are so blind as to who he really is. You all are only important to him until he gets what he wants and then it's back to "you don't matter". Wake up!

[@WELVAS.]

A lot of people still died under Trump and his open borders. We need treatment programs to be accessible to everyone

[@deannharris2424]

Yeah, because he and the Republicans refused to pass the Bill to close the Border. It's his fault and the Republicans you so admire!

[@juanmancha2167]

Not the drugs ,but the choice that people make to use them!

[@angeldust6514]

Driving up and down Central in Albuquerque, and some of the back roads around Central! We counted 14 people smoking fentanyl out in the open like it was a cigarette

[@spyterus]

I live in ABQ and see the zombies on Central Ave all the time, so sad. Even sadder is hearing this mother speak the truth. She knew at some point she would lose her son, whether it be an overdose or a bad confrontation, if he didn’t get help. It can be heard in her voice and seen in her eyes.

[@OO-17AU]

look at the way this woman handled this situatation (grace, humility, understanding, ownership) compared to how the blacks handle a simple arrest (play the victim & race card).

[@deannharris2424]

My condolences to this poor Mom. At least, she isn't blaming anyone. She's bringing attention to this drug problem and how it doesn't discriminate. People shouldn't throw stones because you never know when Karma can visit your home.

[@tankg13]

Poor mom I feel her pain. We are going through a similar situation with my brother but thank god it’s not violent like this. My bro moves like a sloth so I know he ain’t fighting with no one

[@user-homies420]

That man don't play

[@phdpursuinghigherdimensions]

Just stop saying yes to drugs. Nancy was right, just say no.

[@michaelthomas229]

Easy to say this 💩 goes back about 25 years with the pharmaceutical pushing OxyContin ect

[@itzamia]

Drugs don't help the situation, but getting on them was a decision made by the abuser. A good man on drugs disengaging the safety on the rifle and trying to pull the trigger? Sorry for the mother's loss but her son was a bad person, trying to end another mans life because he didn't want to be a man and go to jail for what he did.

[@LeadFarmer813]

there is no recovery when there is no hope for a better life.. poverty.

[@Jc-pu3cx]

why did the police have a rifle on him?????

[@raymedina9514]

This governor needs to step up or get out close the BORDER my condolences to this women

[@bertog1217]

Cant close the border too much trade going on. It wouldn't do any good anyway

[@chrismoreno1627]

My brother was hooked to those dam POS pills and he started selling em now hes doing 7 yrs in the federal pen Florance Colorado there's only two ways out that lifestyle death and prison i've seen first hand and it suck's it's an epidemic!!😠😔

[@danielgallegos8869]

Drug's 🙄......... Better decisions!!

[@alirE2904]

Who unlocked the safety? Looks like cop did.

[@SHerit-q3v]

I’m curious if he had a loving mom and wife and kids why he even began to do the drugs to begin with

[@timp3035]

FJB

[@alro11]

so sad😢- loss of a life and off of medicaid. sad sad sad

[@chelseagoldsmith5267]

👀

[@ismewhat1234]

Sorry for your lost. We live in bad times. MEXICO and our government is the biggest alt Farrell for all this

[@mr.morris96]

I blame this woman for her child's horrible turn out. She was a bad parent and made a bad person. Ya blame the drugs but where was she while her kid was trying to kill a cop?

[@bradhuff256]

I blame the cop for not being more professional in his craft. I'm like that though, I expect better from civil servants that tax dollars pay.

[@chrismoreno1627]

At work most likely you are a clown the dude was a 30 yr old man what was she supposed to do hold his hand all through life? Even some of the best parents and stable/good households turn out drug addict's sometimes outside influence overpowers the the moral's/integrity of what they been taught their whole life i know first hand!!!🤦‍♂️

[@davidschmidt270]

Dang....she sounds kinda like she doesn't even care about her son. I know the reality's deeper than that... I'm just saying

[@deannharris2424]

Don't be stupid! Obviously, you're not a Mother. She's hurting and not blaming anyone. She's bringing attention to this drug problem. You're hearing and seeing what you want. Be careful because you never know when Karma can hit your home.

[@CelebrateLifeOriginal-om6ip]

Thug

[@nuzhinga]

Why momma using the pills as a scapegoat?

[@Whiskeytosparrow]

Bye bye mark.

[@deathriders83]

No accountability, gonna blame something else, cant be her son....and shes says there needs to be something done, as she votes to keep borders oepn and 👽 here. this world is a fail

[@bradhuff256]

It's pretty farking comical when supporters of a 34 time loser start trying to act as if..... The lack of self-awareness among you Trumpsters is off the chain bruh! But the hypocrisy..... OH EM Gee!!!!

[@bertog1217]

That doesn't make any sense. Closing the border or building walls or fences will have no impact whatsoever. Why people believe that is beyond me

[@monicaromero4855]

They almost killed my boyfriend for no reason he got hit by a car the guy took off with a machine gun my bf called the cops and the cops searched him 7 times then one cops eat him to go behind a bush blend down then come towards him my boyfriend yelled at the other cops to see the cop got pissed he wanted to shoot him!! I was witness I got there before the cops and a sheriff was there yet in the police report they didn’t put that the man that took off had an arsenal of weapons and bullets!!! A they didn’t turn in the camera footage suspicious abq cops they wonder why people don’t trust them! I feel like every cops need to go through anger management, learn to deal with mental illness, and drug addiction!! But they never will they will just give anybody a badge now with a 10,000 starting bonus and more after few months that disgust me!!!

[@tylerdurden9920]

are you sure your boyfriend isn't a drug riend. Let me check homie

[@ronblauvelt7457]

Should have raised a better son 🤷 can’t cry over spilt milk now