“An Albuquerque protest over a spate of fatal police shootings in the New Mexican city turned from peaceful to violent on Sunday evening, as police officers squared off with demonstrators decrying police brutality.

The website for the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) was also briefly hobbled in a cyberattack on Sunday afternoon, news outlets reported.

The protests and hacking incident followed outrage over APD’s shooting of a homeless man in the Sandia Mountains with what protesters say was dubious cause. The incident — now the subject of an FBI criminal probe — has since put a spotlight on the high number of APD shootings over the past few years, raising questions about whether officers are over-using their right to open fire when threatened.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Elizabeth Barber / Christian Science Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0331/Albuquerque-protest-over-police-shootings-turns-to-mayhem-video