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On 18 January 2016, Mesa Police Department officer Philip Brailsford, age 26, shot and killed 26-year-old Daniel Shaver of Granbury, Texas. Shaver was allegedly in possession of an air rifle while he was staying at a La Quinta Inns & Suites hotel. Hotel guests near the pool notified the front desk that someone was pointing a rifle out a fifth floor window. The hotel immediately notified the police. Following an investigation, Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder. Controversy emerged surrounding the release of body camera footage of the event.
Incident
According to a police report, Daniel Shaver, a pest-control worker and resident of Granbury, Texas, had been staying at a Mesa La Quinta Inn on business. He invited two acquaintances to his room for drinks. There he showed them a scoped air rifle he was using to exterminate birds inside grocery stores. At one point the gun was pointed outside his hotel window, prompting a witness to notify the front desk; the police were immediately called. Upon arrival, police gave Shaver and his acquaintances detailed orders for various minutes, with frequent admonitions that failing to comply with them would get them shot. Eventually, Shaved was ordered to crawl on the floor towards them. While complying with their request, Shaver, who was intoxicated and could be heard sobbing, begging officers, "Please don't shoot," made several hand motions towards his waist, apparently to pull his shorts up. An officer warned Shaver that if he kept reaching for his waist, they would shoot.
When Shaver reached for his waist again, Brailsford yelled “Don't!” before shooting Shaver five times in the back and neck with an AR-15 rifle. Shaver was unarmed.[1][2]
Aftermath
In early March 2016, Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder in relation to the incident.[3] Later that month, the Mesa police department, citing several policy violations that included the profane language "YOU'RE F[*]CKED" custom engraved into his rifle dust cover[4] and unsatisfactory performance, fired Brailsford.[5][6][7] Brailsford pleaded not guilty.[8]
The prosecution and defense have interviewed 34 witnesses, but key witness Monique Portillo has not cooperated with any requests for interviews. Portillo, who had been drinking in Shaver's room with Shaver and a co-worker, exited the hotel room with Shaver when commanded by police to enter the hallway.[9]
Body camera footage
Shaver's wife, Laney Sweet, and her lawyer requested that the Mesa Police Department release body-cam footage of the event.[2]The request for the body-cam footage was initially refused. In a recording released by Sweet, purportedly of a meeting between her and Maricopa County prosecutors, Sweet was told that she could watch the video only if she agreed not to discuss its contents with the press.[1] Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Brailsford's murder trial asked that the body-cam footage be sealed. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers accepted the motion to seal the footage.[10]
On 25 May 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. In accordance with arguments from Brailsford, prosecutors, and Shaver's parents, the court order bars the public release of the encounter between officers and Shaver until Brailsford's case is resolved in order to protect Brailsford's right to a fair trial.[11]
Trial
Brailsford's trial for second degree murder was originally scheduled for February 2017. A defense motion challenging the state's probable cause to send the case to trial, and appeals to the Arizona Supreme Court over the release of controversially redacted footage from Brailsford's body camera, made a February trial unrealistic. On 10 February 2017, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge George Foster rescheduled the trial for 23 October 2017.[9]
and...
PHOENIX (AP) - Philip Brailsford has been found not guilty of second degree murder and reckless manslaughter, in the trial of a hotel guest's shooting death nearly two years ago.
That's a sweet gun
Sucks.
But he was pointing a gun with a scope out of a window. That's pretty ing dumb. Maybe he was drunk but if he hadn't bee doing that , he wouldn't have put himself in a position to get shot.
he was drunk. you never played with a toy gun when you had a few drinks?
That's murder. How no cop goes and detains the guy is ing re ed.
Playing with a toy gun is way different than pointing a scoped gun out of a hotel window.
The Police State.
It don't ing matter what he doing. Can't you see the guy is laying on his ing stomach with his legs crossed and hands out?
That's ing murder and the cops didn't even bother to charge him for manslaughter. This was an easy case.
the cop wanted him to crawl towards him with his legs crossed and his hands in the air. he was out for blood that night
magic 5 words, NEVER fail: "I Feared For My Life"
just playing devils advocate
he was unarmed when the cops approached him.
From the cop's point of view, he's a dude that was just pointing a gun out the window of a hotel and keeps reaching at his waist.
Not saying the cop didn't up. But Shaver did some dumb while drinking. And unfortunately, when that involves guns, things can go bad very quickly.
No. I don't think you ing get it. As soon as he has his ing stomach on the ing ground. His hands sparsed out, and his legs crossed. He is no longer a ing threat. You got that got?
I know. But see my post above. They're responding to a call of a guy pointing a rifle out of a hotel window. And he keeps reaching for his waist.just playing devils advocate
he was unarmed when the cops approached him.
That being said, the cop shot him several times with an AR-15. And that cop had "You're ed" on his gun cover.
Sounds like someone who shouldn't be a cop. But my point is, if you start pointing a gun out of a window, you're asking for trouble.
Uh...he kept reaching for his waist when he was told not to. Again, I'm not absolving the cop. But Shaver did some stupid .
Did they know he was unarmed?just playing devils advocate
he was unarmed when the cops approached him.
He already had 100% control of the situation already.
You going down in my book with this republican shill .
I just tried walking on my knees and hands up and my knees were hurting like crazy. Probably made it 2 feet before I "moved". This guy is a ing murderer.
Did you watch the video? He's not on his stomach when he got shot. He's on his knees and reaches back toward his waist.
How the is that not murder?
Yeah, they might have sent the Blind Cop Unit out to take care of this.
Because the ing cop told him you stupid . Try crawling on your ing knees with hands up for 10 feet and come back to me if you don't move.
My knees were ing hurting after 2 feet. And the cop got mad when the old fella couldn't keep his hands up and needed assistance from his hands.
Blind Justice baby
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