TO THE BREAKING NEWS YOU SAW FIRST ON ACTION 7 NEWS AT SIX - PEOPLE PROTESTING THE ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT, TOOK OVER THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. THEY WERE CHANTING AND ASKING FOR CHIEF GORDEN EDEN, TO BE ARRESTED. EVENTUALLY, THE CHAOS BROUGHT THE MEETING TO AN EARLY END. KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER LAURA THOREN WAS THERE. SHE'S LIVE AT CITY HALL. DOUG AND SHELLY - I'VE COVERED MANY CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ...AND HEARD PLENTY OF PASSIONATE SPEAKERS, AND ANGRY PUBLIC COMMENTS. BUT "NEVER" HAVE I SEEN IT COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER BY PROTESTERS. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TODAY. PEACEFUL PUBLIC COMMENT AT AN ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TURNED INTO CONFUSION AND DISORDER. IT STARTED WHEN DAVID CORREIA ANNOUNCED WHAT HE CALLED A "CITIZENS' ARREST" OF POLICE CHIEF GORDEN EDEN. gorden eden, gorden eden, you have the right to remain silent. WHILE CORREIA READ OFF THE MIRANDA RIGHTS - EDEN, OTHER ALBUQUERQUE POLICE OFFICIALS, AND MOST CITY COUNCILORS GOT UP AND LEFT. THE PROTESTERS, WERE JUST GETTING STARTED. no justice! No peace! No justice! No peace! THE ANGER COMES TWO DAYS AFTER THE 25TH DEADLY SHOOTING BY ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SINCE 20-10. A DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATION FOUND A-P-D HAS A PATTERN OF EXCESSIVE FORCE. protester: you're shooting us! Every day you're shooting us! SEVERAL TIMES COUNCILORS - INCLUDING PRESIDENT KEN SANCHEZ - TRIED TO RESTORE ORDER. we are now back in session THE CROWD REFUSED TO GIVE IN, CALLING IT DEMOCRACY IN ACTION. this is no longer your meeting. This is no longer your meeting. //STITCH TO// we have a lot of official business that needs to be taken care of this evening, but it will not be done this evening. We've lost total control of this meeting tonight.

THE MEETING WAS OFFICIALLY ADJOURNED. AND THE PROTESTERS TOOK OVER THE COUNCILORS' SEATS, SAYING THEY'D BE ORGANIZING "AN OFFICIAL" PROTEST IN COMING DAYS. AS THE CROWD FINALLY STREAMED OUT, IT HAD ONE FINAL MESSAGE FOR THE COUNCIL: they work for us! COUNCIL PRESIDENT KEN SANCHEZ SAYS HE'LL CALL A SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING ON THURSDAY TO HANDLE THE CITY BUSINESS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO TACKLE TONIGHT. LIVE AT CITY HALL LAURA THOREN KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. WITHIN THE LAST HOUR, CHIEF EDEN RELEASED A STATEMENT ABOUT THE CHAOS. THE CHIEF SAYS HE UNDERSTANDS PEOPLE HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT A-P-D, AND SAYS THE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING TO MAKE CHANGES. HE GOES ON TO SAY-- "WHILE WE WELCOME CONSTRUCTIVE DISCUSSIONS, WE DO NOT BELIEVE DISRUPTION OF TONIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING, WAS A PRODUCTIVE WAY TO MEET THOSE GOALS. THE WIFE OF A MAN WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY ALBUQUERQUE POLICE THIS WEEKEND,