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SUMMARY: The Albuquerque Police Department has come under national scrutiny for shootings involving officers, including 28 fatal incidents in the last five years. In March, two policemen shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man, all captured on a body camera. Unlike other high-profile cases around the country, these officers were charged. Special correspondent Kathleen McCleery reports from New Mexico.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): From Ferguson, Missouri, to New York City, police killings where the officers were not charged have sparked some intense debate and protests across the country.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, which has one of the highest rates of shootings involving police in the country, it’s a different story.
Special correspondent Kathleen McCleery has that.
And a warning: Her report contains graphic footage.
KATHLEEN MCCLEERY (NewsHour): Fourteen-year police veteran Jim Jury knows he and the 935 officers on Albuquerque’s force are getting national attention.
OFFICER JIM JURY, Albuquerque Police Department: It’s shaken the department up.
KATHLEEN MCCLEERY: The intense scrutiny stems in part from charges filed against two officers last month.
KARI BRANDENBURG, District Attorney, New Mexico: We did file an open — what we refer to as an open count of murder.
KATHLEEN MCCLEERY: District attorney Kari Brandenburg took a tough stand after two policemen shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man last March. She charged officer Dominique Perez and detective Keith Sandy with murdering 38-year-old James Boyd.
He was illegally camping here in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains overlooking the city of Albuquerque. The police were called. A four-hour standoff followed, and the scene was recorded by a camera worn by one of the officers.
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