did the jury see the video ? it was made to sound that the video wasn’t released until after the jury verdict.
That is a good question. I would think the prosecuting attorney would have demanded it be shown.
The one shocker is that the cop who did the shooting on the video was NOT the cop issuing the commands to the victim. That cop was a more senior officer. In my opinion, he should have been brought up on charges as well. His spoken commands were nonsense. It was as if he wanted the victim to be shot for noncompliance with his orders. According to the news article, he “retired” shortly thereafter and moved to The Philippines.
did the jury see the video ? it was made to sound that the video wasn’t released until after the jury verdict.
Not all the video was shown until AFTER the trial...What a travesty!
As per wikipedia:
Shaver’s wife and her lawyer requested that the Mesa Police Department release bodycam footage of the event.[citation needed] The request for the bodycam footage was initially refused. In a recording released by Shaver’s wife, purportedly of a meeting between her and Maricopa County prosecutors, she was told that she could watch the video only if she agreed not to discuss its contents with the press.[2] Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Brailsford’s murder trial asked that the bodycam footage be sealed. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers granted the motion to seal the footage.[10]
External video Brailsford’s bodycam, unedited (5:02) on YouTube
On May 25, 2016, Myers ordered portions of the video released. The released video omits the shooting itself. The edited version includes footage from Brailsford’s body camera up to the time when someone exits Shaver’s hotel room and footage from another officer’s camera while he escorts a woman from the hotel. The footage shows that Shaver was on the floor as ordered and crying when he was shot five times in the back with an AR-15 rifle by Brailsford.[11][12][13][14]
The full unedited body camera footage of the shooting was unsealed by the Court immediately after the end of the trial.