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   Copyright © 2014 Albuquerque Journal   
      
   James M. Boyd seemed to think he had a deal. The 38-year-old   
   homeless man – whose illegal camping in the foothills had drawn   
   Albuquerque police – told officers on Sunday that he was ready   
   to walk off the mountain. Instead, he was carried off, fatally   
   wounded after officers opened fire. Boyd, in a long   
   confrontation with police, ended up face down in the dirt, a   
   splotch of blood visible on his back, a police dog on his leg.   
   He held a knife in each hand.   
      
   But before that, there appeared to be a chance he’d cooperate,   
   according to video released by APD on Friday. “All right, don’t   
   change up the agreement,” Boyd says, as officers have their guns   
   trained on him. “I’m going to try to walk with you.” Boyd picks   
   up his backpack and belongings, and he looks ready to start   
   walking. There are no knives in his hands at this point. “Do   
   it!” an officer says on the video.   
      
   A flash-bang device is thrown at Boyd’s feet, disorienting him.   
   Officers yell at him to get on the ground, and a dog and officer   
   approach him. Boyd takes two knives out of his pockets and   
   appears to wave them. Then Boyd starts turning away from the   
   officers. That’s when shots ring out and he hits the ground.   
   Officers continue to yell at him to drop the knives. “Please   
   don’t hurt me anymore. I can’t move,” Boyd says as he lies on   
   the ground.   
      
   Officers fire bean-bag rounds at him as he’s on the ground, then   
   let loose a police dog, which grabs his leg and shakes it. He   
   doesn’t move. Then officers approach and cuff him, blood on the   
   rock above him. He died the next day at the hospital.   
      
   Holding knives   
      
   Police Chief Gorden Eden released video of the incident during a   
   Friday afternoon news conference. Much of it comes from an   
   officer’s helmet camera. The shooting was justified, Eden said,   
   because Boyd, holding knives, threatened an officer and the use   
   of “less-than-lethal” devices hadn’t worked, he said.   
      
   “Do I believe it was a justified shooting? Yes,” Eden told   
   reporters. “If you follow case law … there was a directed threat   
   to an officer.” Boyd had a criminal history going back almost 20   
   years, Eden said. He had spent time in both the Doña Ana and   
   Bernalillo county jails, the chief said. In one incident, Eden   
   said, Boyd punched and broke an officer’s nose as she talked to   
   him in an Albuquerque library.   
      
   “All of his charges have been violent,” Eden told reporters.   
   Officers arriving on scene were told that Boyd had an “extensive   
   history” of violence against police officers, that he was   
   possibly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and that he was a   
   transient. Eden said two officers, Keith Sandy and Dominique   
   Perez, fired three rounds each during the encounter. Sandy is a   
   detective with APD’s Repeat Offender Project. He joined APD   
   after he was fired by State Police amid allegations of double   
   dipping on pay.   
      
   At least one bullet struck Boyd, though Eden said it’s not clear   
   whether that’s what killed him because medical investigators   
   haven’t released a cause of death. Police haven’t been able to   
   locate a next of kin for Boyd. A multi-jurisdictional team is   
   investigating the shooting, Eden said. Forty witnesses, many of   
   whom only heard the incident, have been interviewed so far and   
   “we’re not finished,” the chief said.   
      
   Eden’s first incident   
      
   The shooting is the first since Eden took over as APD chief late   
   last month. Albuquerque police have shot and killed 22 men since   
   the beginning of 2010, counting Sunday’s incident. The city’s   
   police force is under investigation by the U.S. Department of   
   Justice, which is examining whether APD has a “pattern or   
   practice” of violating people’s rights, specifically through the   
   use of force.   
      
   One of the videos shown by Eden on Friday shows the beginning of   
   the encounter with Boyd. Officers were dispatched on a   
   “suspicious person’s call,” the chief said. Boyd was sleeping or   
   lying under something when officers approached. He came out from   
   beneath the cover and “as the officers began to talk to him, he   
   threatened the officers with knives,” Eden said.   
      
   On the video, officers order Boyd repeatedly to drop the knives.   
   According to dispatch logs released Friday, Boyd threw a rock at   
   officers about 20 minutes before shots were fired. Boyd talks   
   almost constantly during parts of the encounter. Eden said Boyd   
   identified himself as an agent for the Department of Defense and   
   other agencies. “I’ve been calling you all for five months,”   
   Boyd can be heard saying on the video.   
      
   Eden said that Boyd asked for State Police to come to the scene.   
   A State Police officer did and “he stated that the suspect   
   threatened to kill him also,” Eden said. An APD crisis-   
   intervention officer also spoke to Boyd, Eden said. Sometime   
   later, Boyd appears to decide he’s ready to leave and he seems   
   to think it’s part of an agreement with the officers. He also   
   suggests it’s the officers who are the threat, not himself.   
      
   “In the private world, if you were down at a bar or a bus stop,   
   I have the right to kill you right now because you’re trying to   
   take me over,” Boyd says. “Don’t get stupid with me.” An officer   
   responds: “We’re not going to get stupid.” Boyd then says he’s   
   going to “walk with you. … Keep your word. I can keep you safe.   
   Don’t worry about safety. I’m not a (expletive) murderer.” He   
   picks up his backpack, officers use the flash bang and he pulls   
   out the knives. About 10 seconds later, as Boyd appears to turn   
   away, officers fire at him.   
      
   Eden said the officers fired a Taser shotgun round at Boyd as   
   the dog was deployed. Eden said Boyd had “two open-bladed knives   
   in his hands,” even as officers handcuffed him on the ground.   
   Officers then used the barrels of their guns to pick over his   
   belongings, located nearby under a clear tarp.   
      
   “The suspect did, in fact, make a decision not to follow the   
   directions that were provided to him by the officers,” Eden   
   said. “… On many occasions, he threatened officers. On many   
   occasions, he refused to follow the direct commands of the   
   officers.”   
      
   During the news conference, Eden took questions from reporters   
   for four minutes before a public information officer tried to   
   end the briefing. Eden responded to questions for about two more   
   minutes before leaving. In a brief interview outside the   
   conference room, the Journal asked Eden why officers didn’t   
   spend more time trying to wait out Boyd – what changed that led   
   them to take the action they did.   
      
   Eden said they couldn’t wait because Boyd was moving to leave   
   and officers couldn’t contain him in the area because of the   
   rugged terrain. “We still had hikers in the area,” Eden said.   
   “We did not have a way as we normally do to be able to establish   
   a strong outer perimeter because of the rocks, the hills, the   
   loss of line of sight.”   
      
   Journal staff writer Patrick Lohmann contributed to this report.   
      
   http://www.abqjournal.com/372844/news/video-camper-turning-   
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