Testimony began Monday in a lawsuit that stems from a 2023 policy at the Albuquerque police academy that required male cadets to razor-shave their heads each morning.

An attorney for the city told jurors that the case centers on the harassment of a cadet by staff at the academy that ended in disciplinary actions against seven Albuquerque Police Department officers.

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