ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque is now on the hook for more than a million dollars in damages after a jury sided with a group of Albuquerque Police Department Academy officers who claimed nepotism was at play.
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The lawsuit went to trial with seven APD officers claiming they faced retaliation for reporting a cadet. While the city lost the case, they still claim this was a case of hazing.
Attorney Shayne Huffman called it an unprecedented end to an unusual lawsuit: “Nobody had ever seen anything like this.”…