Amy Goodman
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The "Bounty" Police Force? Albuquerque Officers Face Protests, Probe over Spate of Fatal Shootings
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18:50Now PlayingOutrage is growing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the latest incident in a spate of police shootings. Video footage captured by a police helmet camera shows officers killing James Boyd, a homeless man who appeared to be surrendering to them at a campsite where he was sleeping. Boyd is seen picking up his belongings and turning away when officers deploy a flash grenade and then fire six live rounds at him from yards away. The Albuquerque Police Department has come under federal scrutiny for being involved in 37 shootings since 2010, 23 of them fatal. This week the FBI confirmed it is investigating the killing of Boyd, and the Justice Department has already been investigating the city's police shootings for more than a year. We are joined by Russell Contreras, an Associated Press reporter who was teargassed while covering the Sunday protest and has been following the police shootings. We also speak to Nora TachiasAnaya, a social justice activist whose nephew, George Levy Tachias, was fatally shot by police while driving in Albuquerque in 1988. TachiasAnaya is a member of the October 22 Coalition To Stop Police Brutality.
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