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the video we are about too show you demonstrates the desperate need for that police training. the mayor wants the additional training money to go specifically to, quote, evaluation, training and execution of policies and reforms relating to police interaction with people living with mental illness, with a focus on deescalation and other crisis intervention strategies. you are about to see a video of heavily armed albuquerque police shooting and killing a homeless man who didn t have a gun, who was in no position to harm the heavily armed officers, and actually turned away from them when he was shot. you will see him being shot in the back by police in violation of the albuquerque police department s rule on the us of deadly force. this is a deeply disturbing video. i have just described it to you ahead of time so you don t have
you ve ever seen in any budget which really says i m paraphrasing, but i m taking budget language and itelling yo what it says. assume we can close enough budget loopholes, and we will not name one, to pay for $5 trillion tax cut. this isn t even serious budgeting if you wanted to pretend for a moment that s where they re going for this. when i said this is an ideological document when he s talking about his vision, there s really no there there. thank you for joining me tonight. coming up, the ahead of the city council in albuquerque will join me to talk about what that city is now doing in the aftermath of police use of deadly force to kill a homeless man. when does your work end? does it end after you ve expanded your business?
you need leadership, it s political and police leadership you need beyond the issue of the split second of the last few moments of this man s life. what would be your reaction if you were in the department investigating this shooting and you found he s shoot in the back? well, it s certainly an issue. a department that values human life, they shoot because they must, not because they re choosing to. that would be something you re looking at. does this department properly emphasize shooting as an absolute last resort, the preservation of human life as the top priority. and this couple, with some of the ore incidents raises serious questions, whether albuquerque puts the proper emphasis on shooting as an absolute last resort, shooting because absolutely your back is against the wall and you have no choice to do that. that s the proper balance in this equation. mr. sanchez, i think we can all see a range of choices that were available to those police officers there. they are there r
come in and investigate this case. and eugene, this is the department, this police department has already been under inspection by the justice department because they have a shootinging history there that statistically out of whack with the rest of the country and departments of that size. i want to use your police training and expertise on what you see in that video. what goes wrong in that video. i think the whole issue could the police have found a better way to slow down, protect themselves. just because a citizen says you must do something, it s not how high you have to jump. it may very well be to leave this guy and come back. the whole idea of how that diagnose it, it s allowed to slip out of their control, those things need to be looked at. and obviously the protocols for mentally ill people, for isolating and containing people, and then further back, how you can get nonpolice people intervening in this man s life and get armed police officers out of this picture altogether