Arizona cop cleared of murder of sobbing, unarmed man

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Daniel Shaver begged the officer not to pull the trigger

A former Mesa, Arizona police officer who fatally shot and killed an unarmed father of two was cleared of second degree murder charges on Thursday.

Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 27, was also cleared of criminal liability in the death of Daniel Shaver. It took the Maricopa County jury approximately 12 hours over a span of two days to find Brailsford not guilty.

The tragedy unfolded nearly two years ago in January 2016 when Shaver, 26, was staying at the Mesa La Quinta Inn. Shaver invited two acquaintances up to his room for drinks and proceeded to show off his pellet gun, which he used in his job as a pest control worker. At that point, a couple in the hotel hot tub below reported to staff that they thought they’d seen the silhouette of a man with a rifle in a window. In response, the hotel staff promptly called police.

Harrowing body-cam footage of the shooting shows Brailsford and five other heavily-armed Mesa officers proceeding through the hotel to confront Shaver and one of his acquaintances. As they exit the room, police scream at the pair to get on the ground. “Apparently we have a failure for you to comprehend simple instructions, I gotta go over some of them again,” one officer says. “If you make another mistake there is a very severe possibility that you’re both going to get shot…. I’m not here to be tactful or diplomatic with you. You listen. You obey.”



Arizona cop cleared of murder of sobbing, unarmed man
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Yapdatfool said:
Damn that man had ZERO chance of surviving that :mjcry:

Let me say this one more time...

Why can't these states govern/judge themselves properly?
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biased jury pool and no incentive for the prosecution to put on a good case. when the cop loving jurors are questioned during selection the prosecution says "acceptable to the prosecution your honor" and the defense just smiles inside. if they were interested in a guilty to verdict they would strike those jurors.
 
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BUT THAT NEGRA WAS KNEELIN AND IT MADE ME UPSET BOYCOTT fukk THE NEGRA FOOTBALL LEAGUE

:wow:

What a shameful country we live in, executed a man pleading for his life. The police are not the fukking military they should not have impunity to kill. Period. White, Black, Hispanic, whatever. You have no right to decide to kill a man.
 
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How you gonna ROFL with a hollow back?
I just showed this to my wife, we are in utter disgust. I mean, what could possibly even preempt that approach from police? I mean, I just said, if there were kindergarteners bound and gagged in that room, or some kind of terroristic activity or something, maybe I could see them approaching a hotel room with that kind of force and anger, but, wtf was that? Why didn’t they just go cuff him? My wife, a white woman, just said, “your kids aren’t even safe with the police anymore” and I know that people of color have felt that way their whole life, but with the current state of things, and the flat out disdain this DOJ has for police reform, this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
 
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