A judge on Dec. 8 released graphic video showing Daniel Shaver crawling on his hands and knees and begging for his life before he was shot and killed. Posted on 12/12/2017 8:13:21 AM PST by w1n1
A judge on Dec. 8 released graphic video showing Daniel Shaver crawling on his hands and knees and begging for his life before he was shot and killed.
The shooting, by Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, then an officer with the Mesa Police Department, occurred after officers responded to a call about a man allegedly pointing a rifle out of a fifth-floor window at a La Quinta Inn.
The graphic video, which was released after a jury on Thursday acquitted the officer of murder and manslaughter charges, stoked outrage on social media and renewed calls for reforms in law enforcement. See the graphic video of this Shaver police shooting here.
Here's some of the reaction on Facebook:
See the graphic video of this Shaver police shooting here.
The only thing I can think of is that the cop thought there might be an armed person in the room so he didn’t want to walk any closer to that room. If that was the case he should of had the guy stand up turn around hands on his head and slowly back up to him where he could cuff him.
But to have him play Simon Says is criminal.
Bad shoot.
Orders should have been:
- hands on head interlace fingers
- face away from the officers
- separate the two suspects
- have both kneel
- move as a “stack” up to the first suspect
- handcuff, search and move out of the way
- repeat with the 2nd suspect
They bring it on themselves with shit like this.
I will tell you my story.
Probably about 12+ years ago, I was living in NE Baltimore. My husband and I had just sat down for dinner when we saw flashing lights and heard multiple sirens coming down our normally quiet little street.
We got up and went to the front and side windows to see what was going on, especially since a fire truck and police car was stopped right in front of our house and an ambulance parked in front of our neighbor’s house, neighbors with whom we were good friends.
We watched for a time from inside and then saw our next door neighbor come out, her husband on a stretcher being loaded into the ambulance. So we went out on our front porch and I yelled over to my friend Jennifer – “Is everything OK?” She yelled back, “Steve’s had the flu for the last couple of days, he’s fever is high, when he tried to get out of bed, he passed out, I had trouble getting him to come to, I think he’s just dehydrated but I called 911 just to be on the safe side.” “OK”, I said, “Call us if you need anything, anything at all”. “Thanks. I’ll let you know if we do. Love you guys.”
The next thing I know there’s a cop coming up our sidewalk and steps (keep in mind our house was a good 40 yards from the sidewalk and another 10 feet from the curb and sat up on a hill) yelling at my husband and me “Stop gawking and get the Hell back inside your house! NOW!”
My (now ex) husband immediately went inside. But I didn’t, I told the cop, “They are friends of ours, we were concerned. And who the Hell are you to tell me I can’t stand on my own front porch?”
He said something like, “If you don’t go back inside your house little lady, I will arrest you” and then he put his hand on his holster” - I am not kidding.
I was just about to dare him to come arrest me, when my husband came back out and calmed me down, pretty much pulled me inside and just as one of the fireman, older guy looked like a captain, came over to the cop and told him something, probably, “Stop being a d!ck”.
When I was in my early 20’s a friend of mine was dating a Baltimore County cop and we and my boyfriend went out together one night. The cop boyfriend proudly told us that one of the reasons he became a cop was so he could speed legally, saying “I love to put my lights and siren on so I can go through red lights” and I sort of laughed it off as a joke until I saw him actually do it a few weeks later.
My friend dated him for about six months before she broke up with him, telling me he had a very short fuse, had become very possessive and controlling threated to smack the sh!t out of her because a male co-worker gave her a life home from work when he car wouldn’t start.
Of course I’m not saying all cops are like these two, we had a good family friend, a very good friend of my brother’s who was a Baltimore City cop back in the 70’s – a really great guy.
But unfortunately the profession does attract its share of psycho types.
“Why not just walk over to them and handcuff them while they were on the ground?”
If you watch the video, you see that there are at least three doors at the end of that hallway. A bad guy could have popped out of any one of those and shot them in the back if they went down there to handcuff them.
Sure the cop was obnoxious. I’d have had words with him afterwards about his trash talking. However, that doesn’t make him guilty of anything except being a jerk.
Several people here—and it seems like the same people on every thread—are making judgments on far too little evidence and far too many flawed assumptions.
Why are we forgetting that these are the same media outlets we have been calling out as purveyors of fake news for a couple of years now?
No it wouldn't.
Police do not function to prevent crime. They exist to investigate crime that has taken place already. And to be a presence in the community representing the concept of rule of law.
That's something which EVERY citizen has a responsibility to do. The difference between civilians and law enforcement personnel is that the officers have chosen to make a professional career out of that responsibility. Consequently they NEED to be held to a much higher standard than other citizens.
No, it's not the police who are keeping society from collapsing into anarchy. It's left to people like you and me.
Make of that what you may. But I will close with this thought: an armed society is a polite society.
These days it's "To observe and collect".
I believe there were a total of 5 cops in the hallway. There is no reason that four cops could not have covered the remaining doors while one cop did the cuffing of the two innocent people who were lying compliant face down on the floor.
It’s a good thing that no one in one of the other rooms heard the commotion in the hallway and popped a head out to see what was going on.
“There is no reason”
Easy for you to say, sitting there in your La-Z-Boi Rockin’ Recliner.
Down the barrels of how many loaded firearms have you looked?
I think adrenaline, fear and billybadass attitude got the best of this cop.
Unreal. Yes, I too have befriended a number of law enforcement veterans and they are great people.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3612948/posts
“That is, innocent men and women are invariably punished when accusations grow from the passions of a frenzied mob.”
Gee, what’s going on now that reminds us of Salem?
This is why it’s not a good idea to point a scoped rifle out of a hotel window. The suspect was also warned several times not to reach behind his back or he would be shot.
And what do the "good cops" do about it?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Police your own ranks, cops, or you will be policed. And you won't like it.
There are recourses for bad cop behavior, but during the event is not one of them.
I had a DA throw out a ticket when I told him about a cop’s behavior during a traffic stop. He sighed and said, “I’ll get this one.”
Stay safe, then kick it upstairs later.
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A funny true story about my brother’s cop friend. One day, Officer Bob was on patrol, his patrol was our neighborhood, and he popped a button on his uniform shirt. Not wanting to get written up by his sergeant who evidently was a bit of a hard case, he stopped by our house and asked my mother if she had some thread and a needle he could borrow.
Of course my mom, being a mom, she insisted on doing it for him.
Then my dad came home from work, to see a young, good looking and shirtless Officer Bob sitting on our living room couch, eating cookies and sipping tea.
My dad looked at Bob and smiled and then said to my mom, “Helen, do you have anything you want to tell me?”
Of course my dad knew there was an innocent explanation and there was, but it was a running joke in the family for years, we started calling my mother’s sewing kit the “Officer Bob Emergency Kit”, and every time my dad saw Officer Bob, he’d say to him, “Hope you are keeping your shirt on today”. LOL!
:)
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