Torres v. Albuquerque Police Department: Our attorneys tried this case and won a verdict of more than $6 mil. against the APD on behalf of the family of Christopher Torres. Mr. Torres was shot in the back and killed by police officers while he was in the back yard of his own home, wearing his pajamas, playing with his dog. He lived with schizophrenia and had been assigned a Crisis Intervention Officer through APD who was supposed to intervene and reach out to the Torres family if he ever had a schizophrenic break-through that created a need for intervention. The Albuquerque Police Department has a long history of shooting people who have mental illnesses, and the officers who went to Mr. Torres house to investigate a traffic incident that had occurred 4 months earlier chose not to involve the trained Crisis Intervention Officer. Instead, they approached Mr. Torres in plain clothes, tore down his backyard fence and attacked him. We found a witness who internal affairs investigators had ignored, who witnessed the police beating Mr. Torres in his back yard. Our firm tried this case against APD not only to seek justice for the Torres family, but to also raise awareness of the need for implementation and enforcement of police policies that protect citizens living with mental health issues.
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