Albuquerque Police Shootings Update

In spite of earlier reports, Judge Shannon Bacon, as part of the trial of APD officer officer Brett Lampiris-Tremba, ruled that he had violated the 4th amendment rights of the victim, Kenneth Ellis III.  According to this account in the ABQ Journal on 27 April, 2013, Ellis did have a gun but was holding it to his own head and not threatening anyone else.  If this testimony stands, while it does not directly contradict my earlier post that he was armed, it certainly raises some question on whether the officer should have fired upon the shooting victim   We will have to follow this trial carefully, but this information does open up the question of whether the officer was justified in shooting Mr. Ellis.  The civil trial, not a criminal proceeding, is an issue for the city.  

I reserve judgement but certainly this sheds more light on the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ellis III.