About 1,000 people turned up at the APD's HQ to plead with cops to stop murdering American citizens
Hundreds expressed their anger over last week's police shooting that saw a homeless man killed.
At the beginning of the rally, protesters asked police to take responsibility for their actions.
"The police serve us, they do not kill us," one protester told the local KRQE media outlet, while one of the demonstrators held a sign that read, "APD: Dressed To Kill."
Another activist, Alexander Siderits, 23, told AP he was participating because he was "fed up" with how police treat citizens.
"It has reached a boiling point, and people just can't take it anymore," he stressed.
Could it actually be happening? Could Americans have reached the point where they say 'Enough is enough'?
Protesters initially gathered around noon on Sunday and marched towards the local police headquarters shouting, "We want justice."
Several people were dressed up for the rally, with their faces painted and posters in their hands. They were shouting, "Hey hey, ho ho, killer cops have got to go."
Albuquerque mayor Richard Berry said the protest had descended into "mayhem" and one police officer had been injured in clashes with the protesters.
"We respected their rights to protest obviously," Berry said to the Albuquerque Journal, "but what it appears we have at this time is individuals who weren't connected necessarily with the original protest ... they've taken it far beyond a normal protest."
Comment: Funny how that always happens. It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that all U.S. police forces have dedicated agents provocateurs working for them, now would it?
The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs
The protesters are angry at the Albuquerque police's involvement in 37 shootings, 23 of them fatal, over the past four years. Many believe it is far too many for a city with around 550,000 inhabitants. The most recent case of a police shooting happened on March 16 when a homeless man was shot dead on the east side of Albuquerque. The incident was caught on video and the FBI has now opened an investigation into the man's death.
Protesters occupied the entrance to the Albuquerque Police Department, to which the cops responded with orders to violently remove them
Police prepare to beat seated protesters on an Albuquerque street
Comment: Watch as Albuquerque cops, functioning effectively as a death squad, murder unarmed homeless camper James Boyd:
Caught on video or not, they'll let these cops go free, like they always do, because they were 'just doing their job, just following orders'...
Two Californian policemen walk free after beating and tasing unarmed homeless man to death