Jury selection set for Albuquerque police in shooting death
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Jury selection is expected to begin next week in the murder trial for two former police officers charged in the on-duty shooting death of a homeless man who authorities say struggled with mental illness.
The March 2014 shooting followed a standoff between 38-year-old James Boyd and police.
Video from the helmet camera of Officer Dominique Perez, one of the officers charged in the case, shows Boyd on a hillside with knives in hand. A flash of bean bag rounds goes off before Boyd, who appeared to be turning away from police, is shot and falls to the ground.
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Outcry over the shooting set off protests two years ago in Albuquerque over police use-of-force — a topic that has since become a hot-button issue nationwide.
Jurors must decide whether Boyd posed a life-threatening danger to police.