ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind 

By Joline Gutierrez Krueger
Journal Staff Writer

For the record:
    I’ll give Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White the benefit of the doubt and assume that his response Monday to my Sept. 26 column on a North Valley family who sued his department and four of his deputies for excessive use of force was written for purely political purposes and not to deliberately mislead readers.
    In truth, I did not miss a second of the testimony on the deputies’ side of the case, and I researched hundreds of pages of records and documents presented by both sides — far more than what the jury got to see.
    To have requested comment from the Sheriff’s Department while the case was ongoing would have been inappropriate, unnecessary and likely to only produce the ubiquitous “we cannot comment on pending litigation” quote. White knows this.
    I also did not “laugh and talk” with the family, though I did have a chuckle with the deputies in the court elevator.
    I have no problem with those who disagree with me, but if you’re going to insult my credibility for political purposes, it’s always nice to have the facts straight.

ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Activist Has Lived Life Always Speaking Her Mind