The jury ordered both MPs to pay $ 1,435,000 to the family as compensation. In addition, Vasquez was ordered to pay $ 5 million in punitive damages and Sanchez $ 2.5 million. CNN turned to defense attorneys to comment on the MPs. Months after the deadly shooting, a large court refused to indict the two deputies and allowed them to return to work on administrative leave. Sanchez and Vazquez responded to Flores’s home in San Antonio on August 28, 2015 for a domestic dispute. Recordings of 911 messengers’ calls released later that year showed that Flores’s mother had called authorities earlier that day to report that he had beaten his wife and had gone “crazy,” CNN’s subsidiary KSAT said. Flores also spoke to the envoys, asking if doctors were coming and later said he planned to die at the hands of police, according to the subsidiary. Authorities said Flores was armed with a knife when lawmakers arrived. Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said the shooting came after a “long-running conflict” in which lawmakers first tested Tasers and shields to chase Flores’s knife. Both lawmakers fired their weapons, CNN reported earlier. A video taken by a passer-by showed Flores holding his hands in the air before being shot. A second video, shot by a neighbor and later released by authorities, also shows him raising his arms shortly before being shot, according to KSAT. The jurors in the political case watched the video of the passer-by during the testimony, the subsidiary said. Vasquez, one of the two MPs, also took the position and said he tried to de-escalate the situation, but Flores threw him with a knife several times and hit him with it, according to the subsidiary. “The situation was getting worse and worse,” Vasketh said, according to the subsidiary. “The return of this verdict by a jury of our peers here in Bexar County shows that we will not tolerate the use of excessive force that kills our citizens.” said Thomas J. Henry, a lawyer for the Flores family, adding that without video footage of the shootings, the family “might never have been vindicated”. “I hope this sends a message to all law enforcement agencies in the United States that excessive violence will not be tolerated,” Henry said.