abqjournalphoto

[abqjournalphoto]

Erik Kaynard, Olympic silver medalist in 2012, is surrounded by students at Wherry Elementary School during a visit to the school Friday morning. Students at the school got to meet track and field Olympians and learn what it takes to become one. (Jim Thompson/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #olympians #albuquerque #newmexico #elementaryschool http://ift.tt/2nf9QOq

[abqjournalphoto]

Barbara Spidella holds onto her hat as she pulls her granddaughter Libby along McMahon and Unser on Albuquerque's westside last Tuesday. (Jim Thompson/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #Albuquerque #NewMexico #spring #winds http://ift.tt/2mfCYpB

[abqjournalphoto]

While taking a #selfie, Mariana Mitchell, Dee Callwood and Alisha Herrera show their support for a memorial reaffirming Albuquerque's status as an immigrant-friendly city before the start of the Albuquerque City Council meeting, Wednesday, Feb.22, 2017. (Jim Thompson/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #immigrant #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2mokvH7

[abqjournalphoto]

Lobo Cherise Beynon shoots around Fresno State's Bego Faz Davalos in Saturday's game at The Pit. Beynon finished the game with a triple double. (Roberto E. Rosales/#AlbuquerqueJournal) @quiquephoto #lobobasketball #lobonation #golobos http://ift.tt/2lBzRIg

[abqjournalphoto]

Vinnie Gerecke, second from right, the widow of Steven Gerecke, looks at Jeremiah King, during the teenager's sentencing hearing for the 2015 fatal shooting of her husband. King was sentenced by Judge Brett Loveless to 25 years in prison, the maximum permitted under his plea agreement, Wednesday February 22, 2017. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #courtroom #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2lPsKyw

[abqjournalphoto]

Katie Mabry, with Americans for Responsible Solutions, pins a lapel pin on former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, center, made by Don Schreiber, a rancher from Rio Arriba County. Giffords took part in a news conference and roundtable discussion on creating gun laws to help stop gun violence, Wednesday, February 22, 2017. (Eddie Moore/#AlbuquerqueJournal) http://ift.tt/2lJfF9l

[abqjournalphoto]

Nick Berget walks by the 24-hour live-streaming camera that was vandalized at the Shia LaBeouf's anti-Trump art installation, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. (Jim Thompson/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #trumpprotest @ShiaLaBeouf #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2lEpPrY

[abqjournalphoto]

Gerri Hura and Lisa Moore join other bird watchers as they stand under a sculpture to watch birds in the Healers Garden in ABQ BioPark's Botanic Garden, Friday, February 17, 2017. The bird watchers, who saw a Peregrine falcon, as well as several porcupines, were participating in the Audubon's 20th annual Great Backyard Bird Count. (Marla Brose/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #birdwatching #greatbackyardbirdcount @audubon @abqbiopark #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2kGtkyD

[abqjournalphoto]

People gather on Saturday to watch and take pictures of Shia LaBeouf as he chants the “he will not divide us” mantra into the camera and microphone that’s been attached to a wall at El Rey Theater in Downtown. LeBeouf and artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner brought their live-stream “participatory performance artwork,” anti-Donald Trump protest to the Duke City after the initial staging of the performance at a New York City museum was shut down earlier this month. The project consists of a 24-hour live-streaming camera mounted to a wall with the message in block letters: “He will not divide us,” referring to Trump. The idea is that people will continuously go up to the camera and repeat the phrase. The event drew a crowd into the night, with demonstrators shutting down Seventh Street for several hours in the afternoon. Nearby police officers said they didn’t plan on intervening in the event as the demonstration was peaceful. (Jim Thompson/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #trumpprotest @ShiaLaBeouf #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2kYdT0O

[abqjournalphoto]

Olivia Medel, left, mother of Enrique Medel, is comforted by Cynthia Mejia Colin, front right, from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Olivia's sister Sandra after a press conference on Lomas and High Street Thursday. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the billboard company announced that they were starting a campaign to find information about Enrique Medel who has been missing since 2011, when he was 14-years-old. "He's out there. We just can't lose faith," said Enrique Mendel's grandmother Gloria Medel. (Marla Brose/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #missingchildren #mother #newmexico #albuquerque http://ift.tt/2kLfOFi

[abqjournalphoto]

Customers found many restaurants in and around Santa Fe, including the Tune Up Cafe, closed in support of "A Day Without Immigrants", a national protest intended to highlight the contributions of immigrants to the economy and culture, Thursday February 16, 2017. The protests were in reaction to President Donald Trump’s plans for stricter enforcement of immigration law and a wall on the border with Mexico. The list of restaurant closures in Santa Fe also included La Boca, Burrito Company, Counter Culture Café, Tune up Café, La Choza, Tia Sophia’s, The Pantry and Jambo Café. A sign at La Boca, an upscale Spanish-style tapas restaurant, said it was joining the protest of Trump’s “aggressive and fascist” immigration policies. (Eddie Moore/AlbuquerqueJournal) #immigrants #protest #santafe #newmexico http://ift.tt/2m6ehL6

[abqjournalphoto]

A recovering meth addict, 26-year-old Alfredo, lights a marijuana pipe during an interview in Ciudad Juárez. One addict says it’s 100 times better than heroin or cocaine. He’s talking about the methamphetamine that Mexican cartels provide to U.S. users in huge quantities but have tried to ban in Juárez. Dealers were even warned recently that anyone trafficking in meth locally would be killed in a “cleansing.” Even so, meth use has surged in Juárez, wreaking the same destruction on users there that it does in the U.S (Roberto E. Rosales/#AlbuquerqueJournal) @quiquephoto #drugs #cartel #Mexico http://ift.tt/2lrQ193

[abqjournalphoto]

Alan Valenzuela holds his son, Alan, 1, and several heart-shaped balloons as he joins family and friends to remember his girlfriend and his son's mother Karina Leanos during a balloon release at Phil Chacon Park, February 14, 2017. Leanos, 27, mother of four children, including Alan, was killed in a fatal crash on Lomas and Pennsylvania Friday morning. Leanos was driving west on Lomas on her way to pick up her children after working a night shift at Genesis HealthCare at Las Palomas Center, where she worked as a certified nursing assistant. Around 7:45 a.m., Elaine Sandoval, 33, was driving south “at a high rate of speed” on Pennsylvania in a Ford Explorer and struck Leanos’ Pontiac, according to court documents. Sandoval, who police said smelled of alcohol, is charged with vehicular homicide. If a blood test reveals alcohol impairment, this will not have been Sandoval’s first experience with DWI; her driver’s license had already been revoked because of a prior drunken driving case. (Marla Brose/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #memorial #mother #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2l0nN4C

[abqjournalphoto]

Elizabeth Nicole, center, an actress from Laguna, allows Daniel "DC" Casillas, left, and JB Letuli from OnSet FX studio in Albuquerque, to tranform her during Film Day at the state capitol in Santa Fe, Monday, February 13, 2017. (Eddie Moore/#AlbuquerqueJournal) #monster #specialeffectsmakeup #nmfilm #nmleg #SantaFe #NewMexico http://ift.tt/2lm2jzA

[abqjournalphoto]

Saxon is a Ciudad Juárez drug runner. Mexico’s drug cartels earn billions of dollars in profits as they funnel heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana into drug-hungry countries, including the United States. Crime, death and ruined lives flow right along with those drugs to places as varied as New York City, West Virginia coal country, Albuquerque, Española and western Europe. Despite the efforts of law enforcement, the cartels rival international corporations in size and reach. The drugs they peddle are cheaper and more plentiful than ever before, claiming thousands of victims every year. Go to the link in our bio to follow Albuquerque Journal’s six-part investigative report on a criminal enterprise wreaking havoc across the country. (Roberto E. Rosales/#AlbuquerqueJournal) @quiquephoto #drugs #cartel #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2lL8gqW

[abqjournalphoto]

Isaac Trezza-Alamond, 10, center, battles light sabers with Justin Coston, 8, right, during Star Wars Fest at the Loma Colorado Library earlier this month. (Marla Brose/#Albuquerque Journal) #starwars #riorancho #newmexico http://ift.tt/2l2wJVw

[abqjournalphoto]

Taking advantage of last week's warm weather, Adam Torres, front, kicks a hacky sack while playing "volley-hack", a game that combines the rules of volleyball with hacky sack, with a group of other downtown workers, including Ginny Hall, back left, and Davina Martinez, back right, on their lunch break, Thursday, February 9, 2017, on Civic Plaza in Albuquerque, N.M. (Marla Brose/#Albuquerque Journal) @markabrosephoto #sunshine #southwest #hackysack #lunch #albuquerque #newmexico http://ift.tt/2lzDlOf