Posted on 12/11/2017 4:06:18 PM PST by Main Street
A newly-released video shows an Arizona police officer shooting and killing an unarmed man in January 2016 after the man, who was crying and begging for his life, made a mistake in complying with his orders.
The body camera footage was released on Friday by the judge presiding over Officer Philip Brailsford's trial after Brailsford was acquitted on Thursday for the killing.
The victim, 26-year-old pest control worker Daniel Shaver, was staying in the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Mesa, Arizona while on a business trip when police received a call that someone was pointing a gun out of the window of the hotel, Newsweek reported. While Shaver had reportedly been showing off a pellet gun to two guests that night, according to witnesses, he was unarmed when the police confronted him in the hallway of the hotel.
In the video, Brailsford is seen standing by as another officer, Sgt. Charles Langley, commanded Shaver to get on the floor and crawl towards him, all while berating him and intimidating him with death threats. Shaver appeared to be complying with his orders, and can be heard sobbing as he crawls towards Brailsford and Langley. But after Shaver reached back toward his pant leg, Brailsford shot him five times with his AR-15, believing he was reaching for a gun.
"Please don't shoot me," Shaver begged Brailsford, moments before his death.
After being charged with second-degree murder in May 2016, Brailsford was acquitted after less than six hours of deliberation by a jury, Vice News reported.
During the trial, Brailsford maintained that he did nothing wrong.
"If this situation happened exactly as it did that time, I would have done the same thing," Brailsford stated in court.
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Bad shoot.
If I was one of those Jurors I would be feeling pretty stupid right now.
” ‘If this situation happened exactly as it did that time, I would have done the same thing,’ Brailsford stated in court.”
Anyone in Arizona who meets this person should consider him an immediate threat to their lives and they should act accordingly.
He should NOT be allowed access to firearms and, sadly, the SOB will get hired by another police department probably sometime next year so he can get behind a badge and kill someone else.
I don’t know what they do or say to these jury’s that hear these cases, but it is something wrong.
A few questions
- why was the jury not allowed to see the this video?
- if the cop was afraid for his life why did he leave the woman’s purse where she dropped it? and why did command the kid to crawl over the woman’s purse?
Respect ma’ authority or I will execute you!
“..Bad shoot....”
Yep. IF there ever was one, this is it.
And why didn’t they just go cuff him? The whole thing just doesn’t make sense.
It’s almost as if it was a hired hit.
Been in police work 26 yea...this officer had more options that the one he chose. Spoke to my training DEPT about it.. we all concluded ...if not murder... at least manslaughter...geez... thankful for good training and good men and women I work with...
That was the hardest thing I’ve ever watched. What’s this “crawl toward me” crap? Can’t they just cuff them when they’re on the ground? He crawled like they told him, so they shot him, all the while begging “don’t shoot me”.
So taxpayers will pay for the wrongful death.
They should at least be able to garnish the murderers wages for the rest of his life.
Thank you for your service!
Where do we get our juries?
Makes me feel bad for every time my boss(es) would get me out of jury duty.
This guy should hang!
Not for the faint of heart....flat out murder.
Simon says for keeps
Go prone with out reached hands.
Let LEO cuff you.
I’m pretty sure the jury got to see the video. The judge only released it to the public after the trial.
I’m retired from state LEO. This crawling thing is crazy...he is crawling too fast and this does nothing to stabilize the situation. Order him face down and cover him while a second officer cuffs him and searches him. Bad shoot.
the ramifications of this incident only serve to further alienate the citizenry from the police.
A common theme is; why don‘t good cops hold bad cops accountable ?
What is to be done ?
I might get blasted for this. I normally default in favor of the officers, but this was wrong.
I guess the guy was getting his white privilege by getting shot to death.
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