PTSD, because he MURDERED an INNOCENT MAN... and GOT AWAY WITH IT!!! may that FPOS die of rectal cancer
Posted on 07/12/2019 2:03:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A US police officer who was fired after shooting dead an unarmed man was temporarily rehired so he could apply for a pension, local media report.
Philip Brailsford, 28, killed 26-year-old Daniel Shaver in the hallway of an Arizona hotel in early 2016.
He was fired and charged with murder - but was acquitted at trial in 2017.
Records show that he was briefly rehired last year so he could apply for a lifetime pension worth more than $2,500 (£2,000) a month.
The move meant he could be medically retired - rather than fired - which made him eligible for the pension.
"He was eligible for retirement benefits, so he applied for them," local official Chris Brady told ABC News. He added that Mr Brailsford had submitted a claim of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in connection with the shooting.
~SNIP~ Bodycam footage of the incident, released after Mr Brailsford was acquitted, showed Mr Shaver on his knees asking officers not to shoot him.
But he was shot five times with a semi-automatic rifle as he crawled towards the officers while sobbing.
Lawyers argued that Mr Brailsford had responded appropriately, according to his training, when Mr Shaver reached towards his waistband - because he believed there was a concealed firearm there.
No weapon was found on the body, but Mr Bailsford said he believed Mr Shaver was reaching for one.
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It is curious that shootings by cops in Canada usually involve injury to the ‘perp’ and only one or two shots. In the States, cops shooting people usually seem to involve many more shots, many missing the target, and often the death of the ‘perp’ and sometimes injury to bystanders. That is what seems to make the news, and FR most frequently.
There are exceptions, like that ‘roided up James Forcillo in Toronto in 2013. Unfortunately, all he got was 6 years for attempted murder. He started serving his time in December 2017.
The Crown charged this killer with second-degree murder, manslaughter and attempted murder. He was acquitted of the first two charges but convicted of the latter charge. His first three shots brought the 18 year old down but then when the young man started moving again, he put another five bullets out of six into the ‘perp’. Then another one of ‘Tranna’s finest’ chose to ‘tase’ the dying ‘perp’.
I’m glad that Calgary cops seem to have a little more sense (and fewer ‘roids) than their Tranna brethren.
This ‘roided up punk kid cop is as guilty of murder as anyone could be in this case. I’m surprised that the usual jackboot lovers haven’t showed up to defend that rifle’s ‘slogan’.
Another article that doesn’t say the whole situation. The incident happened in 2016 in a La Quinta Hotel in Mesa, AZ. Lawyers argued that Mr Brailsford had responded appropriately, according to his training….. He was acquitted in 2017, the next year from which he was terminated and charged. So it doesn’t make any difference what people think, he was not convicted of the charges he was terminated for and the department released him prior to the end of the trial thus conflicting his rights as an employee.
He did make a deal with the department as he was eligible for retirement benefits since he was improperly terminated without cause, so he applied for them. He just wanted what he should have received legally. Mr Brailsford was reinstated for 42 days last August so he could make the application. He was not in any way fulfilling a capacity as a police officer during this time, a police spokesman told the newspaper, but he had to be reinstated to apply and receive his medical retirement.
We talk so much about the rule of law, yet we sometimes determine a person’s innocents or guilt before the case is settled like in this case. Mr. Shaver did have what appeared to someone in the area to be a rifle that was being pointed out the window of the hotel room so a weapon did exist. Mr Brailsford did not initiate the sequence, he was called by the department to investigate the report. The rifle was later identified as a pellet gun but there was no way the officer could know that or if there were other weapons in the vicinity to be used by Mr. Shaver in addition to his initial efforts.
It’s a sad ending, but it fell within the guidelines of their training and they never should have terminated him prior to the trial. They owe it to him. The law made a decision that made him look bad when it was really the mistake of the department that trained him that way expecting him to do what he did, and then prematurely terminated him for something he didn’t do by a court decision of a jury call.
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I remember this one. Guy was obviously pulling up his pants as they were coming down as he dragged himself across the floor.
This was a shoot that was bad in my opinion.
PTSD, because he MURDERED an INNOCENT MAN... and GOT AWAY WITH IT!!! may that FPOS die of rectal cancer
When Otto Von Bismarck invented the idea of pensions, their primary attraction to him was their use as a form of social control. Do things wrong and you lose your pension.
Whether this guy deserved to lose his pension or not, I’ll not argue one way or another.
But I have to say, I have a lot less heartburn, from a libertarian perspective, with defined benefit plans like 401(k)s, than I do with pensions.
“Why the hell is he getting a pension for life when he obviously screwed up isn’t competent to be on a police force?”
Medical (supposedly). Similar to why convicted felon jesse jackson jr. gets an $8,000/month federal disability pension.
I'm sure you're aware that this whole thing started with a call to 911 saying "there's a guy pointing a rifle out the window of a hotel".Yes,the "rifle" wasn't real but the cops had no way of knowing that.
And as for my "not guilty" vote...if I had done so it would have involved "reasonable doubt"...not a conviction that the cop had acted flawlessly.
His tattoo sleeves don’t cover up his essence... he has “punk” written all over him.
The blue line doesn’t do themselves any favors with stories like this.
Clearly, YES!
“Why the hell is he getting a pension for life when he obviously screwed up isn’t competent to be on a police force?”
Because murdering someone while a cop so traumatized him he won’t be able to work again? “I know I killed my parents, judge, but now I’m a poor orphan!”
If this is the law, the law is an ass!
Side bar I worked the Cal Youth authority 28 years One day an accounting employee came to me, because no one else would listen to her. She said we had a ward on social security. His parents both dead. Ho0w can he get SS when he’s prison. i read his file. No wonder he was an orphan, he killed both his parents.
I went to the superintendent dent. He said ditto a letter. Then letter was faxed 2 hours later. Th director sent it to the agency secretary who sent it to the governor at 5:30 PM. The gov called, I think Seymour, one of our senators. Two weeks later a law was passed, if you killed your parents, you can’t benefit from being an orphan.
looks like a pussy wannabe to me
Do you know for a fact that he is not?
Well, you do know that they have a tough job. And they want to go home at night. He deserves a pension. As for him shooting him while he was begging for his life while sobbing or between sobs, don’t fret about that. He would have shot him if he had been standing on his head pleading for his life while bawling. If they put kill decals on the side of their patrol cars each time they took someone’s life, his car will be covered in them by the end of the month. He has killed once and gotten away with it, the next time will be easier.
I would imagine that if you were shot as that guy was, you would die too. I understand that it was shitty of him to die just because he had been shot, but I guess that is the way it goes.
The guy that got shot would agree with that.
If you do today, you are a fool. The older retired Peace Officers will tell you that. Or a lot of them told me that.
It could be that he just enjoys killing. The video I saw, he held the rifle on him for a while. It did not show him shooting, but he just did not aim and shoot. He had time to think about it.
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