With regret, Texas lawyers Philip Hilder and Richard “Dicky” Grigg still remember the civil rights case they pursued together more than 10 years ago against the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and seven of the office’s deputies at the time.

The deputies surrounded their client, a mentally ill African-American man, then 17, who had called 911 and then occupied the front yard of his aunt’s home holding kitchen knives, the lawyers alleged.

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