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Suspect cops used to justify deadly SWAT standoff has only been charged with violating parole [1]
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Date: 2022-07-13
Police officers involved in a SWAT standoff with Kelley last Wednesday are being investigated. Brett was visiting a friend when officers saw him follow Kelley into the friend’s home.
“Dozens of calls were made, but crisis negotiators never heard from Kelley or Rosenau,” police said. “A drone and robots were used to determine who was inside the house and to activate powder irritants inside the home to get the individuals to exit.”
“At one point, a man believed to be Kelley, opened the back door of the home and lay on his back as officers monitored his actions. He ignored officers’ commands to stand up. He eventually sat in place. Officers used a noise flash diversionary device to get Kelley to follow commands. But he retreated back into the home, shutting the door. The stand-off ended after officers noticed smoke coming from the house. They used the drone and robot to attempt to locate the source of the smoke. They determined a fire was active inside the home. As fire fighters arrived, Kelley exited the residence with burn injuries. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and later arrested and booked into jail overnight on his warrants.”
Albuquerque Police Department Detective Eric Endziel used the alleged warrants in his request to secure a search warrant with Second Judicial District Court Judge Britt M. Baca-Miller, the Source reported.
Police Chief Harold Medina mentioned at an earlier news conference that Kelley “had some felony warrants, one from the state level, one from the federal level.”
Barron Jones, a senior police strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, told the Source that police often demonize people when police encounters go wrong. “This is a situation where we want that person to look as bad as we possibly can, to either justify or mitigate the actions taken by APD that night,” Jones said. “I’m not saying that is the case, but that is a thing that happens.”
Medina said in a news release on Tuesday that he has asked state Attorney General Hector Balderas to conduct an independent review of the department’s handling of the standoff. “Out of an abundance of caution, I am requesting the assistance of your office to conduct a review of our handling of the incident,” Medina said. “If the chemical device is determined to be the cause of the fire, I would also request that your office provide us with an independent analysis of the device and deployment procedures.”
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