[WATCH] Jurors Shown Body Cam Video of Arizona Officer Killing Unarmed Man as he Begged ‘Please Don’t Shoot Me’

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[WATCH] Jurors Shown Body Cam Video of Arizona Officer Killing Unarmed Man as he Begged ‘Please Don’t Shoot Me’

October 28th, 2017

Awake Goy

Jurors at the murder trial of a former Arizona police officer were shown on Thursday body camera footage of the cop killing an unarmed man who sobbed and begged not to be shot.

It marked the first time since the January 2016 shooting of 26-year-old Daniel Shaver in Mesa that the full, unedited video has been shown in court.

The 18-minute recording aired in the murder case against Philip Brailsford shows Shaver, a married father-of-two from Granbury, Texas, laying face-down in a hallway outside his La Quinta hotel room as police responded to a call that someone was pointing a gun out of a window.

A police supervisor can be heard shouting commands at Shaver, who disobeys some of the orders but doesn’t voice any threats toward officers.

‘Please do not shoot me,’ Shaver said.

Brailsford opened fire when Shaver, who had been ordered to crawl toward officers, reached toward the waistband of his shorts. The officer believed Shaver was reaching for a gun.

Authorities have said it looked as though Shaver was pulling up his loose-fitting basketball shorts that had fallen down as he crawled.

‘Daniel Shaver drew his last breath on his hands and knees,’ prosecutor Susie Charbel told jurors, pointing out that none of the other officers in the hallway fired a shot.

Brailsford, 26, is one of the few police officers in the US to be charged with second-degree murder after an on-duty shooting.

Brailsford attorney Michael Piccarreta told jurors his client had to make a difficult, split-second decision about protecting himself and others.

‘Mr. Shaver wasn’t going to get shot until he moves his hand behind his back,’ Piccarreta said. ‘This man was no killer, he was a first responder.’

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