Ex-APD Officer's Attorney Says Man Wasn’t Surrendering

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An attorney for a former Albuquerque, New Mexico, police officer on trial in the on-duty killing of a homeless camper says the man wasn't surrendering before the officer opened fire. Attorney Luis Robles made his assertion Thursday during his closing argument at the trial of two officers involved in the shooting. It came after a prosecutor said 38-year-old James Boyd was following police orders to get on the ground at the end of a chaotic 10 seconds in which a K-9 unit approached Boyd and he pulled two knives. Robles said Boyd was actually falling to the ground because he had just been shot by a detective. Robles said his client, former SWAT Officer Dominique Perez, decided to shoot when Boyd made a slight movement toward the nearby K-9 handler. Attorneys have reviewed a police video clip of those moments multiple times over the course of the three-week trial. Both officers are charged with second-degree murder on the 2014 shooting.