A still from NYPD body camera footage captured during the police shooting of Miguel Richards on Sept. 6, 2017. Source: NYPD.
As part of a broad effort to change how police confront civilians with mental illness, a group of attorneys has sued the New York City Police Department to obtain raw body camera footage from the fatal shooting last year of a man suffering from an apparent mental health crisis.
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest has teamed up with attorneys from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to file an Article 78 challenge to the NYPD’s refusal to release unredacted body cam footage from the fatal shooting in September of Miguel Richards in his apartment in the Bronx.
