![]() ![]() ![]() She said Shaver was “pathetic” as he struggled to comply with the officers’ commands. Deputy County Attorney Susie Charbel called him a “killer” who tried to cover up the shooting, according to the Arizona Republic. According to a press release from the law firm where he now works, Fennemore Craig, the elder Brailsford was a police officer for 19 years.īrailsford had been on trial since October. He was a lieutenant and had worked in the department’s Internal Affairs Unit. But the inscription was not allowed to be entered as evidence after a judge ruled it to be prejudicial.īrailsford’s father, also named Philip Brailsford, left the Mesa Police Department in 2015 to join a local law firm. The inscription on the gun was a violation of department policy, which was one of the reasons Brailsford was fired. Prosecutors said Shaver appeared to be attempting to pull up his shorts.īrailsford’s attorney, Michael Piccarreta told the Arizona Republic, “We had confidence that the jury would recognize this as a tragedy, not a murder, and that Mitch Brailsford acted in a split-second as he was trained.”īrailsford argued that he shot because he thought Shaver was reaching for a weapon. The other officers in the hallway did not fire on Shaver. Shaver’s hand then moves and Brailsford opens fire. Your hands go to the small of your back, we are going to shoot you,” the officer yells, before screaming for Shaver to crawl toward him. “If you think you’re going to fall you better fall on your face. Shaver begs the officer not to shoot him. “You do that again, we’re shooting you,” the officer screams. He then yells at Shaver to put his hands up in the air, as Shaver appears confused by the commands. As he struggles to get to his knees, the officer yells, “I said keep your legs crossed.” Shaver then apologizes and the officer says, “I didn’t say this was a conversation.” ![]() Langley tells Shaver to keep his legs crossed and then put both of his hands out in front of him and then pull himself up into a kneeling position. Brailsford is next to Langley with his gun pointed at Shaver. In the video, Shaver is told by an officer, Sergeant Charles Langley, to obey his commands and “not make a mistake” after he exits the room and gets down face-first on the floor. The other two guests exited the room at the command of police prior to the shooting. The two motel guests who were in the room testified that Shaver had been playing with the pellet gun near the room’s window earlier. It was later determined that Shaver had a pellet gun in the room for his pest control job, but he did not have it with him in the hallway at the time Brailsford shot him. The video shows an intoxicated Shaver, who was staying at the motel while on a work trip and had been drinking with two people he had met earlier that night, being ordered to crawl out of the room after police responded to a report of a man pointing a gun out of the room’s window. ![]() Watch this video of this execution and tell me how it was justified.” Sweet wrote on Facebook, “Philip Brailsford was found not guilty on all counts in the killing of Daniel Shaver. The Justice system miserably failed Daniel and his family,” Sweet’s attorney, Mark Geragos, said about the video and the not guilty verdict. ![]()
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