He hasn't decided if he will begin the process to appeal his firing and try to get his job back, Piccarreta said. Michael Piccarreta, Brailsford's lawyer, said Wednesday that his client didn't want to comment for this story.īrailsford's state law-enforcement certification is inactive, meaning it hasn't been revoked but he's currently not working for another police department. The Mesa Police Department fired Brailsford shortly after the shooting for violating department policies, including having an etching on the dust cover of the rifle he used to shoot Shaver that said, "You're f-ked." The jury didn't know this fact, as presiding Judge George Foster wouldn't allow it into evidence over concerns of prejudice. Police say Shaver had been playing with a pellet gun he used for pest-control work while showing it to two other hotel guests he met earlier that night. The incident began when a couple in a hotel hot tub told staff they saw a silhouette in a hotel window with a gun pointed toward a nearby highway. "For what? For his elbow coming up too high? For being confused? For being compliant? Why did he deserve to die? He didn't."
And he was shot five times," Sweet told CBS. 18, 2016, it has received international attention since the presiding judge lifted an order shortly after the verdict to make public police video of the killing.īrailsford had testified in court he fired his AR-15 rifle five times because it appeared that Shaver was reaching for a gun as he crawled toward police officers. "I just don't understand how anybody could watch that video and then say not guilty, that this is justified, that Daniel deserved this and that Philip Brailsford doesn't deserve to be held accountable for his actions," Sweet said in the interview.Įven though the shooting was on Jan.
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Sweet's comments to the TV news program are the first she has made publicly since a Maricopa County jury last week found former officer Philip "Mitch" Brailsford, 27, not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Daniel Shaver. "It took people watching my husband die a very horrible, inhumane death for people to care," Laney Sweet told CBS News in a segment that initially aired Tuesday night.
The widow of an unarmed man shot dead by a Mesa police officer in January 2016 says the recent groundswell of support for her cause came about only after police released body-camera footage of the shooting.
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