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.
rwood
If this is the law, the law is an ass!
You’re the first one on this thread defending the murder of Daniel Shaver that I have seen.
;^)