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From what I understand of the case, the guy had been drinking at the hotel bar and met a couple who he invited to come “party” in his room. Was that perhaps bad judgement on his part? Perhaps. But was it criminal? No.

Furthermore, he worked for a pest control company and was on the road traveling to big retail stores like Wal-Marts and Lowes and Home Depots as part of his job in order to shoot birds using a pellet gun – yes a pellet gun.

Evidently he was showing the guy he made just had made an acquaintance with, his pellet gun and was unfortunately standing near an open window in his hotel room when someone outside saw what they thought was a rifle or an “assault weapon” and called the police who of course went into a hyper military and full out swat team assault mode even though no shots had been fired and no threats had been made.

The police on the scene were in full assault Swat team full out militaristic mode even as the situation didn’t warrant it. The cop who shot him was also from what I saw in the video was yelling conflicting and confusing orders to the guy who was scared out of his wits and begging for his life. Get your hands up, get your hands down, crawl on your hands and knees…

He was ordered to crawl on his hands and knees toward the officer, which really makes no sense to me. Once he was down on the ground, why couldn’t the cop(s) have come up and detained him and searched him for a weapon. Furthermore, the guy was wearing nothing more than a tee shirt and flimsy gym shorts. It was pretty obvious to me that those clothes were not conducive to hiding a weapon and when he was asked to crawl that his shorts were coming down as they did he rather instinctively tried to pull them up, again maybe not the best choice he could have made but then in the confusion of the situation and perhaps being a bit inebriated, understandable. He was begging for his life.

That the cop felt threated and felt the need to shoot? OK perhaps. But 5 times and at close range with an AR15 that from what I understand was his own personal weapon, not even a police issued weapon and with a dust cover that was engraved with the words “You’re f—ked,”?

This was IMO not a good or justified shooting. This cop was a shoot first and ask questions never type. “I felt threatened and had to put 5 bullets into a guy on his hands and knees while begging for his life, just doesn’t cut it.

The judge did not allow jurors to hear about an etching on the dust cover of the rifle Brailsford used to shoot Shaver, which said “You’re f—ked,” because he felt it was prejudicial.

It should have been allowed as it went to the state of mind of the cop who IMO murdered this guy in cold blood. From what I understand of the case, the guy had been drinking at the hotel bar and met a couple who he invited to come “party” in his room. Was that perhaps bad judgement on his part? Perhaps. But was it criminal? No.

The judge did not allow jurors to hear about an etching on the dust cover of the rifle Brailsford used to shoot Shaver, which said “You’re f—ked,” because he felt it was prejudicial.

It should have been allowed as it went to the state of mind of the cop who IMO murdered this guy in cold blood.