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 Ms. Valdez to the Albuquerque Police Department dispatcher, who relayed the following information to the officers:

"Male [subject] Russell is [drunk] and [on scene] [Subject] has a knife to his own throat . . . [No injuries] at this time Male has [vandalized] windows in the [location] . . . Male has been violent in the past . . . Male takes meds for seizures . . . Male, [caller] and males wife Michelle are all [on scene] inside the [location] [Caller’s] brother Bob Torres is also [on scene] . . . Offender is in the kitchen [with] the knife [Caller] is in the living room Male is still holding the knife in his hand Male is waving knife around . . . [Caller’s] sister and [caller] are in the living room Offender and [caller’s] brother are in the kitchen [Caller] is standing outside the [location] waiting for [officers] . .."

Id. at 73–74 (capitalization omitted) (items in brackets are spelled-out abbreviations or translations of police codes).

The officers, all in uniform, arrived on the scene in separate vehicles within eight minutes of the original call. They parked their vehicles a short distance from the residence. About a minute later they approached Ms. Valdez, who was standing outside the house still speaking to the 911 operator. She appeared frightened. Pitzer had not received crisis intervention training, but Moore and Liccione had. Moore told Ms. Valdez to end her 911 call. She told the officers: “He’s got a knife. He’s been drinking. . . . He’s like thirty-seven, thirty-eight years old. Um, we tried to talk to him but he got mad ’cause we took his beer away from him.” Id. at 205 (internal quotation marks omitted). Pitzer announced that he was “going lethal.” Id. (internal 4