Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec. 14, 2014

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Department dysfunction slows emergency aid to areas in need Homeland Security has struggled to fulfill obligations, according to staff, documents in debris. A wood trestle bridge crossing a major arroyo was so badly damaged that county officials closed it, forcing dozens of residents living east of Las Vegas, N.M., to find alternate routes, sometimes going miles

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

In the summer of 2013, torrential rains hammered San Miguel County. Flooding washed some roads away and buried others

out of their way. Local officials estimated the damages at more than a half-million dollars, far more than the cash-strapped county could afford. Gov. Susana Martinez quickly issued disaster declarations for San Miguel and several other counties. The declaration should have cleared the way for the state Department of Home-

land Security and Emergency Management to assess the damage and begin issuing checks to the flood-damaged counties for repairs. The whole process should have taken just weeks. Nearly a year later, San Miguel County was still waiting for its relief funds to arrive.

Lapel camera use expected to grow State agencies say they will pursue federal funds to purchase more recording devices. LOCAL NEWS, C-1

Senate passes $1.1T spending bill Measure heads to president for signature. PAGE A-3

Are teen sexting fears overblown? Research suggests most photos don’t result in disaster. FAMILY, C-7

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Police protesters hit Santa Fe streets

Colorado backup kicker Katie Hnida, pictured in 1999, later transferred to The University of New Mexico and said a former Colorado teammate raped her. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

BEFORE VIRGINIA ‘To this day, people call me a liar,’ says former UNM student, rape victim By Tina Griego

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en years ago, before the University of Virginia and Jackie, there was the University of Colorado and Katie. It was 2004 and the CUBoulder campus was in an uproar over allegations that its football team used sex and alcohol to woo recruits, accusations that had their roots in an earlier off-campus party tied to the alleged rape of three women. Katie Hnida, a onetime University of New Mexico student who was a place kicker for the Lobos football team, had been a student at CU. She played on the Buffaloes as their first female kicker, and in 2000 she was hanging out with a teammate at his apartment when, she said, he raped her. When she came forward, almost four years later, in the midst of the school’s recruiting controversy, she slammed into a wall of skepticism and scorn. The football coach dismissed her accusation by saying she was a terrible kicker. People called her a liar. She says she thought the fact that she’d been a virgin would spare her the dredging up of a sexual history because, she says, “I had none.” It didn’t. “To this day, people call me a liar,” Hnida says now. “Sometimes I wish they could be there when I get so nauseous and sick that I’m throwing up and nights I can’t sleep and when I got into a depressive funk. Those times are rare now — it does get better, I want people to

u In Q & A, Katie Hnida says attention rape victims get is awful. PAGE A-5

know that — but they are still around because it never truly goes away. It changes you.” It is largely forgotten now in the heat of the UVA story that 10 years ago the same kind of furor ensued, the same kind of accusations exploded about a campus culture of relative privilege turning away from a serious problem. The same vows of reform and calls for dialogue and soul-searching were made. So, too, was the equal insistence that the problem was alcohol and the lack of common sense on the part of women — even as more came forward to say they’d been raped. The CU scandal roiled the campus for years and contributed to suspensions and resignations. There are obvious differences between then and now, between CU-Boulder and UVA, between Hnida and Jackie, not the least of which is that Jackie’s story has evolved into a textbook case of journalistic malfeasance amid growing doubts among her friends about inconsistencies in her story. Jackie’s account is of a brutal, gang sexual assault, the kind everyone accepts as rape because she says it was violent and she was sober and did not know all her alleged assailants. Hnida’s alleged assailant was a friend, a teammate,

A puppet portraying Victor Villalpando was part an Occupy Santa Fe rally against police violence Saturday. The march, which began at the Railyard and proceeded to the intersection of Cerrillos Road and St. Francis Drive, was held in conjunction with national marches on the issue. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

Local victims’ family, friends denounce violence By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican

ore than 100 people in Santa Fe marched in opposition to police violence Saturday morning in conjunction with demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere around the nation. The event — organized by Occupy Santa Fe — was, for the most part, civil and obe-

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Young Native Artists Holiday Show Annual opportunity for children and grandchildren of the Palace portal artists to sell their work, 10 a.m.2 p.m., Meem Community Room and New Mexico History Museum classroom, use Washington Avenue entrance, no charge, 476-5200.

Las Posadas Annual candlelit procession and re-creation of Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter, 5:30-7 p.m., the Plaza and Palace of the Governors courtyard, no charge, 476-5200.

By Darryl Fears The Washington Post

A demonstrator chants Saturday during the Justice for All rally and march in downtown Manhattan, N.Y. Similar rallies were held in Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bloomington, Ind., and Lexington, Ky., among other places across the country. JOHN MINCHILLO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Obituaries Arquimedes “Kimo” Castro, Dec. 6 Dorothy Hyatt Davis, Dec. 8 Filia Lucero, 79, Dec. 7

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African American men who lost their lives at the hands of police — and others. Many carried signs printed with slogans — such as “Black lives matter,” “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe” — that have become part of the national vocabulary in recent months. But many marchers were there in memory of local victims of police violence.

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dient, to the disappointment of some who agitated for more defiant action. A Santa Fe police officer described the crowd — which had gathered in the Railyard and marched to the intersection of St. Francis Drive and Cerrillos Road — as “compliant.” The event was held in solidarity with national movements prompted by the highly publicized deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner — all

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WASHINGTON — In a strong display of unity after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the relatives of African Americans killed by officers in similar incidents dating back more than a decade shared a stage on Saturday to call on Congress to make changes in the criminal justice system.

Mary Jane Lucio, Dec. 8 Michael Turner Hamilton, Oct. 26 Jack L. Miller, 88, Nov. 22 Charles Alfred Pitre, 80, Santa Fe, Dec. 4

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Speaking in the cold afternoon air, mothers and fathers of those who were killed said their children were let down by prosecutors and grand juries that did not indict officers in many of the cases, saying the attorneys have too close a relationship to police to fairly represent shooting victims. On the stage, passing a microphone like a baton, one speaker after another

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William Howard Reed, 85, Nov. 21 Mary Frances Romero, Dec. 9 Eileen E. Sandoval, 76, Santa Fe, Dec. 9

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