'Please don't kill me': Cop cleared of murder after shooting dead a sobbing father

I'd rather be alive than right. If an armed police officer tells you to do something, why wouldn't you comply?

Some department allow civilians to try their shooting simulator. I recommend it.

I doubt any of our armchair quarterbacks have ever been in a situation anywhere close to what police face every day.





I would love to be present, to see how they would handle someone they know is unarmed. :P
 
So if I call the cops and tell them you're waving a gun out of your house, and you walk out to greet the cops, not knowing what's going on, and reach for your wallet, you should get shot? Of course you wouldn't get shot though. You're white. White privilege. Shitty little baby.

Watermark's fantasy:


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I cannot for the life of me see how this cop was cleared of murder??


  • WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT
  • Ex-Mesa cop Philip Brailsford, 27, was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the January 2016 shooting death of Daniel Shaver
  • Shaver was staying at a La Quinta hotel in Mesa for work when police responded to a call that someone was pointing a gun out the window
  • After the verdict was announced officials released a video of the encounter
  • In it Shaver, who was unarmed, can be heard sobbing and begging Brailsford 'please don't shoot me'
  • Brailsford opened fire after Shaver reached toward the waistband of his shorts to pull them up, saying he thought the victim was reaching for a gun

A former Arizona police officer was found not guilty of murder Thursday of in the 2016 fatal shooting of an unarmed man outside his hotel room, as video of the shocking moment is finally released by officials. Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 27, was found not guilty in the 2016 death of 26-year-old father-of-two Daniel Shaver, from Granbury, Texas. The shooting, which Shaver's family has referred to as an 'execution,' occurred in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa when officers were responding to a call that someone was pointing a gun out a window at the La Quinta Hotel. Police told Shaver to exit his hotel room, lay face-down in a hallway and refrain from making sudden movements - or he risked being shot. New disturbing footage of the encounter shows the moment Shaver, sobbing and crawling towards the officer, audibly begs 'please don't kill me,' before Brailsford opens fire and shoots him dead.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-officer-acquitted-fatal-hotel-shooting.html

Roll the tape or STFU that link doesn't play it, show us the whole bodycam footage as the jury was shown.
 
I heartily encourage all the armchair quarterbacks who second-guess police from behind the safety of their monitors to inquire about ride-along programs in their community.

Won't be the same; because they won't take a ride along into dangerous situations and if one develops, they keep them towards the back and in the car.

Plus; how much are they going to see, while cowering on the floor of the car.
 
I was a juror on a case similar to this back in 1987 in Miami.
48 year old man (African American) owned a used car lot in Liberty City.
20 year old man (also African American) drives into the lot, screaming and demanding money from the owner.
Owner tells him to get off his property while holding a gun pointed at him.
Guy (empty handed) keeps coming at him, flailing his arms and hands, cursing at him, telling him he's going to kill him.
Guy at one point flails his arm around behind his back.
Owner fires once, killing him.
Owner calls cops, trial ensues.
We all found the owner not guilty after deliberating for about 2 hours.
2 hrs? Wow, why did it take so long? Why was there even a trial?
 
well first, the guy actually was shooting a gun. (a pellet gun) so he knew what was going on. shouldn't have been a retard.

i'm not reaching for my wallet when I have guns pointed at me. I am being a very smart and intelligent individual and complying fully and not doing anything without being asked.

Still bullshit, that was murder without a doubt.
 
But then, you live in that make believe country called Liberalstan. :palm:

Our police don't act routinely like the Gestapo, they are taught to defuse the situation. It is pretty damn obvious that guy was shit scared and in shock. Probably either drunk or on drugs, I would value the opinion of STY.
 
Here is the story of a real hero/heroine, unlike that butcher!

She had been back barely 48 hours when the car in which she was travelling with 21-year-old Resistance fighter Jacques Dufour, codenamed Anastasie, encountered a German roadblock. Rea
lising the Sten guns they had with them would be found if they were searched, they began shooting at the Germans and during the ensuing exchange of gunfire, Violette was hit in the shoulder. She and Anastasie tried to flee through a cornfield — but the ankle she had sprained in parachute training gave way. So, insisting that Anastasie leave her behind, she saved his life by covering his escape with gunfire.

It was an astonishing display of courage. For half an hour, one young woman armed only with a Sten gun and 90 bullets managed to hold off at least 40 men equipped with machine guns and backed up by armoured vehicles. Even some of the Germans were impressed as, her ammunition finally spent, she waited calmly for them, hands at her sides, her gaze defiant.

An SS officer put a cigarette in her mouth. ‘Can’t help but respect your pluck, mademoiselle,’ he said, but she spat out the cigarette. Now she was only too happy for the Germans to know how much she despised them. It was a contempt she never hesitated to make clear in the remaining months of her life, starting with her interrogation by the Gestapo. One inquisitor offered her cups of tea and ‘English’ cake in an effort to charm information out of her. Others stripped her naked and sexually violated her, leaving her with terrible internal injuries.

Yet through all of this, Violette refused to talk. When she eventually did it was only because they had brought in a young Resistance fighter to be tortured in front of her, pulling out his nails and beating him almost to death until she offered what they later found was wholly useless information. Her last days were spent in Ravensbruck concentration camp, where each freezing morning the prisoners had to stand to attention for hours during roll-calls. Exhausted from breaking rocks all day on a diet of two cups of ‘soup’ — in reality just water and unwashed potato peelings — many prisoners threw themselves on the camp’s electric fence rather than face another day. But Violette’s spirit remained unbroken.


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Violette Szabo's awards: George Cross (top), (left to right) 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, 1939-45 War Medal, French Croix de Guerre \ George Cross medal

During one roll-call, she stepped out of line and began singing and dancing to the old music-hall tune The Lambeth Walk. For this she was placed in solitary confinement for a week, listening to the screams of women being beaten or tortured, just as she had been after one of several attempts to escape. Even when she went to her death, taken to Ravensbruck’s ‘execution alley’ along with fellow SOE agents Lilian Rolfe and Denise Bloch, she kept her head held high and her expression scornful. As always, she had been what the citation for her George Cross called ‘a magnificent example of courage and steadfastness’.

Her name may not be familiar to modern generations but her legacy lives on in a poem much heard at funerals, which was written by SOE codemaster Leo Marks following the death of his girlfriend in an aeroplane crash. Used by Violette for her ‘poem code’ — an easily memorable verse used as the basis for encrypting messages — it was made famous when Virginia McKenna recited it over the end credits of Carve Her Name With Pride:

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours
and yours.
 
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Here is the story of a real hero/heroine, unlike that butcher!

She had been back barely 48 hours when the car in which she was travelling with 21-year-old Resistance fighter Jacques Dufour, codenamed Anastasie, encountered a German roadblock. Rea
lising the Sten guns they had with them would be found if they were searched, they began shooting at the Germans and during the ensuing exchange of gunfire, Violette was hit in the shoulder. She and Anastasie tried to flee through a cornfield — but the ankle she had sprained in parachute training gave way. So, insisting that Anastasie leave her behind, she saved his life by covering his escape with gunfire.

It was an astonishing display of courage. For half an hour, one young woman armed only with a Sten gun and 90 bullets managed to hold off at least 40 men equipped with machine guns and backed up by armoured vehicles. Even some of the Germans were impressed as, her ammunition finally spent, she waited calmly for them, hands at her sides, her gaze defiant.

An SS officer put a cigarette in her mouth. ‘Can’t help but respect your pluck, mademoiselle,’ he said, but she spat out the cigarette. Now she was only too happy for the Germans to know how much she despised them. It was a contempt she never hesitated to make clear in the remaining months of her life, starting with her interrogation by the Gestapo. One inquisitor offered her cups of tea and ‘English’ cake in an effort to charm information out of her. Others stripped her naked and sexually violated her, leaving her with terrible internal injuries.

Yet through all of this, Violette refused to talk. When she eventually did it was only because they had brought in a young Resistance fighter to be tortured in front of her, pulling out his nails and beating him almost to death until she offered what they later found was wholly useless information. Her last days were spent in Ravensbruck concentration camp, where each freezing morning the prisoners had to stand to attention for hours during roll-calls. Exhausted from breaking rocks all day on a diet of two cups of ‘soup’ — in reality just water and unwashed potato peelings — many prisoners threw themselves on the camp’s electric fence rather than face another day. But Violette’s spirit remained unbroken.


47206C3500000578-0-image-m-24_1512772620287.jpg

Violette Szabo's awards: George Cross (top), (left to right) 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, 1939-45 War Medal, French Croix de Guerre \ George Cross medal

During one roll-call, she stepped out of line and began singing and dancing to the old music-hall tune The Lambeth Walk. For this she was placed in solitary confinement for a week, listening to the screams of women being beaten or tortured, just as she had been after one of several attempts to escape. Even when she went to her death, taken to Ravensbruck’s ‘execution alley’ along with fellow SOE agents Lilian Rolfe and Denise Bloch, she kept her head held high and her expression scornful. As always, she had been what the citation for her George Cross called ‘a magnificent example of courage and steadfastness’.

Her name may not be familiar to modern generations but her legacy lives on in a poem much heard at funerals, which was written by SOE codemaster Leo Marks following the death of his girlfriend in an aeroplane crash. Used by Violette for her ‘poem code’ — an easily memorable verse used as the basis for encrypting messages — it was made famous when Virginia McKenna recited it over the end credits of Carve Her Name With Pride:

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours
and yours.


I have absolutely no desire to defend the murder committed by this cop but I will point out that there's something like a million cops in the US and odds being what they are shits going to happen
 
i always find it flabbergasting that people who are supposedly all about limiting the power of government, praise that government when it kills someone for being stupid. if stupidity is an executionable offense, most of you should already be dead.
 
i always find it flabbergasting that people who are supposedly all about limiting the power of government, praise that government when it kills someone for being stupid. if stupidity is an executionable offense, most of you should already be dead.
Yes absolutely, that cop should be in jail!

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