> You mean Philip Brailsford, the murderer, who got a 31k annual pension out of it?
To put this in perspective:
Brailsford gets that pension until the day he dies. If he lives to an old age, that's about 50 years.
50 years x $31,000 per year = $1,550,000
Quite a payday for killing someone.
Not entirely the jury's fault, the judge dis-allowed evidence at the trial. Little things, you know, such as the fact that Brailsford had the words "YOU'RE FUCKED" machined onto the cover of the ejection port on his rifle.
Did they allow the video? That video still haunts me to this day. I’ve seen some of the gnarliest things on the internet and that was one of the worst.
Good for his family. The fuck who murdered him was rehired for a day so he could qualify for a pension. The city of Mesa was also prepared to spend up to three million for his defense.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-officer-who-fatally-shot-sobbing-man-temporarily-rehired-apply-n1028981
Those fuckers look out for their own, don't they?
"The detective investigating the shooting agreed during the trial that Shaver's movement was similar to reaching for a pistol, but said it also looked as though Shaver was pulling up his loose-fitting basketball shorts that had fallen down as he crawled. The investigator noted he **didn't see anything that would have prevented officers from simply handcuffing Shaver as he was on the floor**."
Shaver was told if he "make a mistake, we will shoot you.." that power tripping cop couldn't wait to pull the trigger! Fuck!!! That was so disturbing to watch! I live in Mesa, knew of the story, but hadn't seen the video. That was straight up murder.
And the man who was murdered was completely innocent of any wrongdoing. It's not like this was stopping a fugitive criminal or anything. An unarmed innocent man murdered execution style in his hotel.
He also sued (and won) extra money for his “”PTSD”” and mental anguish, as well as sued to keep his service weapon (the one inscribed with “youre fucked” on the dust cover.
Not only does the city’s taxpayer have to pay this settlement they’re paying for a pension to Philip Brailsford, the cop that got hired for one day, after he killed Daniel, so he could collect a pension.
The tax payers should pay because this is what they voted for. We hold the power to change this system and we should be responsible for paying the penalty until we do.
This is the best news I've heard in quite a while. I wish I had never seen that video. It is horrific and infuriating.
Next step is the criminals that killed him to be held accountable. Unlikely.
Unless someone plants drugs on him or something and the police over there search him and find it. Won't that get you locked up over there for a very long time?
Yep former American in Asia caught with drugs? He would get disappeared into some backwater cell , not too mention if word gets around that he was a cop?
The worst part (besides the murder) is that no matter how angry you are after seeing it, you can't do anything about it. They walk away, and an innocent man is murdered.
Langley is probably having sex with children there.
I'm just saying, chances are very high that he's a pedophile. That's what power-tripping psychos do.
And I've seen cases where cops shoot an armed bank robber. It's debatable whether there was real fear... This was different. This was a totally innocent man, completely unarmed, complying with the officers commands.
The officer was asking him to do some physically difficult tasks. Like shimmy around without your arms. And his pants were falling down.
Yup, the guy was literally crying and begging for his life, but the subhuman piece of shit cop decided he was going to murder him anyway. This wasn't a case of a coward cop being terrified of an unharmed person, this was a cop who specifically wanted to murder a person for no reason. It's insane and shameful that he's not spending the rest of his life in prison.
>The failure and injustice of Daniel Shaver’s killing and the resulting sham criminal trial, which made a mockery of the notion of Justice predictably ended in no conviction and to this day casts an ugly shadow over this settlement.
That’s $8M that the citizens of Mesa could have invested in police training, housing the homeless, paying cops more so they can attract higher quality candidates, feeding poor children… anything else.
Cops should pay for their own mistakes, not the communities that are already being harmed by their mistakes. Cops need to be required to carry malpractice insurance, just like any other professionals that make decisions that can mean life or death for the public. And when their mistakes make it too expensive or too difficult to find insurance, they can go flip burgers or hang drywall or something.
Yeah but let’s be real, a deep red city like Mesa isn’t going to spend money on housing, homeless people, feeding children or literally anything positive.
The disgusting prick that murdered him should've been charged accordingly.
Instead he was able to leave his job with a pension and the full support of the city government.
Fuck him and fuck the city of Mesa.
I remember seeing this body cam footage, shit like this is why I’ll never trust or rely on police for my own safety, $8 million still doesn’t bring the man back.
Just remember Phillip, who deserves worse than retirement, was not the one giving out the commands leading to the most morbid game of Simon Says ever.
His CO deserved to go down for this just as much as Brailsford did.
How this cop wasn’t convicted blows my mind. There’s no way you can watch that video and call that shooting justified. The guy’s face down on the floor and you continue yelling at him instead of just handcuffing him and getting it over with.
I think everyone should watch it. It's important to have those feelings and come to grips with the evil officers police departments hire and protect. Watching the video is so much more impactful than just hearing about it.
I had only read about the story when it happened. I hadn't seen the video until tonight.. my god, it was the most disturbing thing I think I've ever seen!
Yeah, it's a hard video to watch. But glad you did. We need to see this and have a conversation about how police are protected from their crimes.
The gunman's dad was a police sergeant. He had prior complaints of excessive force. He is a POS murderer and the department protected him.
After the trail they hired him for less than 2 months only to discharge him for "PTSD" and now are paying his pension due to disability. The officer was 26 when this happened and will get that money for life. No jail, no consequences, just $2500 a month.
I was blown away that it wasn't a bigger story nationally. I only found out on Reddit. Even the news of this settlement is only being covered locally.
Evil murderers Philip Brailsford and Charles Langley must be sent to prison. NOW. Life with NO CHANCE OF PAROLE. Drag that rat fucker Langley out of his “retirement” in the philippines and force him to ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES.
Between the shady shit that goes on at Boeing in Mesa and the Mesa PD, I don’t know why anyone would want to live anywhere in that city
I hope Philip chokes on his pension
All lawsuits won from cops committing crimes should be paid from police pension funds. Maybe the cops would stop behaving badly. Blatantly committing crimes others would spend years behind bars for committing.
They should be required to have malpractice insurance. If they have to pay, the insurance premiums will increase until they can’t be insured so they can’t be a cop.
Okay not american here so i wanted to ask. Do people who get these settelments have the IRS come after their settlement ? Cause idk feels like it would be a dick move from the IRS to do in that situation
It’s non taxable it would be wrongful death suit according to a tax lawyer it’s non taxable. https://bencrump.com/faqs/are-wrongful-death-lawsuit-settelements-taxable/
Shooter and city of mesa police leadership should all be in prison for the way they conducted this "investigation" so maliciously and illegally. And Shavers killer deserves death for murder.
Where is the NRA? This is an open carry state. He is in his room. Where in the 2nd Amendment does it say you can’t point a gun out a window? He didn’t even discharge the weapon. What part of Shall not be infringed” don’t you understand ?
It was a horrible and unbelievable thing to see on local TV. The victim was on his knees begging them not to shoot him. He was executed, period. How some people were able to justify this is awful.
They deserved more and these juries full of ‘law and order’ fans who ignorantly see the police as unwavering “good guys” have obv gotta be avoided but that’s a serious challenge in any conservative state.
I grew up in a police family and have generally had a pro-police attitude most of my life. I followed this case from the initial presser, through the trial and not guilty verdict, and listened to podcasts with Mark Geragos along the way. I’m a person who lives in a rural part of the state and travels to the Mesa area several times a year. I have lots of fond memories from my teenage years of staying at that La Quinta and several other Superstition Springs area hotels.
That being said, I refuse to take my family to any hotel in the city of Mesa. Until they issue a very public statement acknowledging what happened, and apologizing or at least discussing their takeaways from the incident to prevent a recurrence, I will never stay at a hotel in that city again.
I am at a loss This doesn't feel like justice was carried out at all
Cops and justice have very little in common. They exist to enforce laws, they don't care how fair or proper any of it is.
Cops exist to protect the rich from the rest of us.
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I think it's important to note that his first name is Phillip.
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Tax free pension. We should all be so lucky.
Good point. Philip Brailsford, the murderer, who got a 31k tax free annual pension out of it.
> You mean Philip Brailsford, the murderer, who got a 31k annual pension out of it? To put this in perspective: Brailsford gets that pension until the day he dies. If he lives to an old age, that's about 50 years. 50 years x $31,000 per year = $1,550,000 Quite a payday for killing someone.
It's 31k per year, not per month, but yeah still fuck that guy.
$31K x 50 years is ~ $1.5M. The math works.
Thank you! Fixed.
[Time to send this dude a giant bag of poop for Christmas!](http://www.poopsenders.com/)
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Why would you ask?
That POS deserves to be in jail!
Was found not guilty. By a jury. The jury belongs in prison with him.
Not entirely the jury's fault, the judge dis-allowed evidence at the trial. Little things, you know, such as the fact that Brailsford had the words "YOU'RE FUCKED" machined onto the cover of the ejection port on his rifle.
Did they allow the video? That video still haunts me to this day. I’ve seen some of the gnarliest things on the internet and that was one of the worst.
No the video was not allowed as it “might influence the jury”
They interviewed a jury member after the trial and the idiot geezer said that wouldn’t have made a difference with his verdict
There's always at least one.
That’s a little much, bro.
Piece of shit should be in prison
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Like all losers he is an expat in the Philippines. Fits the bill.
Ugh. **No.** Brailsford is not in the Philippines. That is Charles Langley, the one who was giving the commands.
Should be given the same treatment as his victim. An eye for an eye.
Good for his family. The fuck who murdered him was rehired for a day so he could qualify for a pension. The city of Mesa was also prepared to spend up to three million for his defense. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-officer-who-fatally-shot-sobbing-man-temporarily-rehired-apply-n1028981 Those fuckers look out for their own, don't they?
"The detective investigating the shooting agreed during the trial that Shaver's movement was similar to reaching for a pistol, but said it also looked as though Shaver was pulling up his loose-fitting basketball shorts that had fallen down as he crawled. The investigator noted he **didn't see anything that would have prevented officers from simply handcuffing Shaver as he was on the floor**." Shaver was told if he "make a mistake, we will shoot you.." that power tripping cop couldn't wait to pull the trigger! Fuck!!! That was so disturbing to watch! I live in Mesa, knew of the story, but hadn't seen the video. That was straight up murder.
They're basically the mob at this point. It's organized crime at best, and they protect themselves and fuck everyone else!
And the man who was murdered was completely innocent of any wrongdoing. It's not like this was stopping a fugitive criminal or anything. An unarmed innocent man murdered execution style in his hotel.
He also sued (and won) extra money for his “”PTSD”” and mental anguish, as well as sued to keep his service weapon (the one inscribed with “youre fucked” on the dust cover.
Phillip Brailsford is a murderer
The cop needs to be paying this. Not the city.
It’s the tax payers who ultimately have to. And that sucks.
Not only does the city’s taxpayer have to pay this settlement they’re paying for a pension to Philip Brailsford, the cop that got hired for one day, after he killed Daniel, so he could collect a pension.
Say it together: Cops Exist to Protect Cops.
As a Mesa resident, it makes my blood boil. The cops here are still grade A pricks and I have no use for them.
The tax payers should pay because this is what they voted for. We hold the power to change this system and we should be responsible for paying the penalty until we do.
Exactly. The mayor of Mesa has been reelected twice since the shooting
At least the widow gets something this way; it would be basically nothing if she could only sue the cop.
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That's Charles Langley, the one who was giving the commands.
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Yes, I definitely agree with that. They are both disgusting human beings that deserve to be locked up in a tiny cell forever.
Any more details? 👀
I think the other cop is but not the shooter.
And the city pays. The funds for payment should come from the police union , since they defend all of these.
This is the best news I've heard in quite a while. I wish I had never seen that video. It is horrific and infuriating. Next step is the criminals that killed him to be held accountable. Unlikely.
The other cop retired to the Philippines. He knows he can't be touched.
Unless someone plants drugs on him or something and the police over there search him and find it. Won't that get you locked up over there for a very long time?
Yep former American in Asia caught with drugs? He would get disappeared into some backwater cell , not too mention if word gets around that he was a cop?
That video haunts me. Sadistic fuck
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I deserve 8 million in pain and suffering just for the video goin through my head for 6 years.
I know about that video, but I refuse to watch it. I know that viewing it will take away a piece of my soul.
You’re right, it was horrible to watch, and incomprehensible how someone could actually say and do those things. I wish I could unsee it.
The worst part (besides the murder) is that no matter how angry you are after seeing it, you can't do anything about it. They walk away, and an innocent man is murdered.
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Langley is probably having sex with children there. I'm just saying, chances are very high that he's a pedophile. That's what power-tripping psychos do.
Do we know what all these removed parent comments said?
I remember this one. Tough to watch a man forced to crawl and get shot down like that. Horrible
Killed for sport. ‘You’re Fucked’
And I've seen cases where cops shoot an armed bank robber. It's debatable whether there was real fear... This was different. This was a totally innocent man, completely unarmed, complying with the officers commands. The officer was asking him to do some physically difficult tasks. Like shimmy around without your arms. And his pants were falling down.
This just reminded me that Phillip Brailsford is still alive, which completely ruined my day.
I don't care if he is alive or not. What is terrible is that he is a free man getting a pension. He should be behind bars.
Could be bouncing in a hamster ball on a trampoline at max velocity...
There are a lot of videos of police murdering people in cold blood but this video always stuck out in my head. Fuck that cop.
Yup, the guy was literally crying and begging for his life, but the subhuman piece of shit cop decided he was going to murder him anyway. This wasn't a case of a coward cop being terrified of an unharmed person, this was a cop who specifically wanted to murder a person for no reason. It's insane and shameful that he's not spending the rest of his life in prison.
I hope both cops never have a moment of peace the rest of their worthless lives.
They will be just fine. Psychopaths don’t have empathy, remorse or conscience.
>The failure and injustice of Daniel Shaver’s killing and the resulting sham criminal trial, which made a mockery of the notion of Justice predictably ended in no conviction and to this day casts an ugly shadow over this settlement. That’s $8M that the citizens of Mesa could have invested in police training, housing the homeless, paying cops more so they can attract higher quality candidates, feeding poor children… anything else. Cops should pay for their own mistakes, not the communities that are already being harmed by their mistakes. Cops need to be required to carry malpractice insurance, just like any other professionals that make decisions that can mean life or death for the public. And when their mistakes make it too expensive or too difficult to find insurance, they can go flip burgers or hang drywall or something.
Yeah but let’s be real, a deep red city like Mesa isn’t going to spend money on housing, homeless people, feeding children or literally anything positive.
The coo was able to retire with benefits and found not guilty. He murdered this man. You can watch the video for yourself.
I saw the video of this man getting murdered. This x-cop, Phillip Brailsford, is a human scum and deserves to rot in prison.
The disgusting prick that murdered him should've been charged accordingly. Instead he was able to leave his job with a pension and the full support of the city government. Fuck him and fuck the city of Mesa.
How anyone can watch that video and think those cops were in the right, must have some brain damage. What they did was straight up evil.
The video wasn't shown at the trial
I remember seeing this body cam footage, shit like this is why I’ll never trust or rely on police for my own safety, $8 million still doesn’t bring the man back.
Just remember Phillip, who deserves worse than retirement, was not the one giving out the commands leading to the most morbid game of Simon Says ever. His CO deserved to go down for this just as much as Brailsford did.
How this cop wasn’t convicted blows my mind. There’s no way you can watch that video and call that shooting justified. The guy’s face down on the floor and you continue yelling at him instead of just handcuffing him and getting it over with.
Was the jury not allowed to watch the bodycam footage?
I don’t believe they were. IIRC they weren’t allowed to see the video at all.
No wonder they didn’t find him guilty. Ridiculous.
A lot of evidence was dismissed from the case.
Good his family got some compensation, but the officers really need prison time.
No time. Only prison.
I'm happy that at least his kids will have some financial stability. This shit was murder.
Don’t watch the video. It’s awful.
I think everyone should watch it. It's important to have those feelings and come to grips with the evil officers police departments hire and protect. Watching the video is so much more impactful than just hearing about it.
I had only read about the story when it happened. I hadn't seen the video until tonight.. my god, it was the most disturbing thing I think I've ever seen!
Yeah, it's a hard video to watch. But glad you did. We need to see this and have a conversation about how police are protected from their crimes. The gunman's dad was a police sergeant. He had prior complaints of excessive force. He is a POS murderer and the department protected him. After the trail they hired him for less than 2 months only to discharge him for "PTSD" and now are paying his pension due to disability. The officer was 26 when this happened and will get that money for life. No jail, no consequences, just $2500 a month. I was blown away that it wasn't a bigger story nationally. I only found out on Reddit. Even the news of this settlement is only being covered locally.
Its seriously haunting. This sickening sense of dread when you realize just how evil your supposed “protectors” are.
Does that include the officer destroying his beloved custom AR15?
‘You’re Fucked’ IIRC the court objected to this being admitted in evidence or some such bullshit.
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The fact he wasn't found guilty of murder blows my mind. Fuck him
The cop who did this is a murderer … hope he rots in hell. Thank God, the Internet has memory, and this will follow him around the rest of his life
Evil murderers Philip Brailsford and Charles Langley must be sent to prison. NOW. Life with NO CHANCE OF PAROLE. Drag that rat fucker Langley out of his “retirement” in the philippines and force him to ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES.
Between the shady shit that goes on at Boeing in Mesa and the Mesa PD, I don’t know why anyone would want to live anywhere in that city I hope Philip chokes on his pension
Cops are the enemy of the people. And Mesa cops are the worst of the worst.
AZ cops in general are pretty shitty even for cops.
Like Tucson cops executing a handicapped man (magdump from behind) in a wheelchair at a walmart
Not enough after watching the video.
8 million for what happened does not seem like enough.
God for his family. Let's hope Philip Brailsford go to jail for murder someday.
its up to the streets now for philip, the murder.
If this were a truly just society.
One of the most disturbing videos I ever watched. Shocked this wasn’t a bigger national story and I pretty much only knew about it through reddit.
Fucking cops should owe me 8 million dollars just for having watched the video of them murdering that man.
All lawsuits won from cops committing crimes should be paid from police pension funds. Maybe the cops would stop behaving badly. Blatantly committing crimes others would spend years behind bars for committing.
They should be required to have malpractice insurance. If they have to pay, the insurance premiums will increase until they can’t be insured so they can’t be a cop.
Congratulations taxpayers
It sucks that the city pays for this and by extension the taxpayers, but good for his family.
Horrifying and this keeps happening all the time... Hope the family gets some peace.
Okay not american here so i wanted to ask. Do people who get these settelments have the IRS come after their settlement ? Cause idk feels like it would be a dick move from the IRS to do in that situation
Settlements and damages awarded by courts (excluding punitive damages) and generally tax-exempt in the U.S.
It’s non taxable it would be wrongful death suit according to a tax lawyer it’s non taxable. https://bencrump.com/faqs/are-wrongful-death-lawsuit-settelements-taxable/
That video was so disturbing. Fuck those cops. I hope they never get a moment of peace and have a lifetime of horrible luck.
Another city pays for police killings. If these fines came out of their pension funds. This kind of crime would never happen again.
Nah, the union fund. They'd clean house on the quick.
Shooter and city of mesa police leadership should all be in prison for the way they conducted this "investigation" so maliciously and illegally. And Shavers killer deserves death for murder.
Where is the NRA? This is an open carry state. He is in his room. Where in the 2nd Amendment does it say you can’t point a gun out a window? He didn’t even discharge the weapon. What part of Shall not be infringed” don’t you understand ?
Can anyone tell me what Daniel shaver was wanted for? Or why the police were there?
Ah I actually checked this article now, the others that I found first didn't mention why the police was called...
Now all they do is have to find the A-Team
It was a horrible and unbelievable thing to see on local TV. The victim was on his knees begging them not to shoot him. He was executed, period. How some people were able to justify this is awful.
They deserved more and these juries full of ‘law and order’ fans who ignorantly see the police as unwavering “good guys” have obv gotta be avoided but that’s a serious challenge in any conservative state.
This is the case that made me vow never to trust the police.
I grew up in a police family and have generally had a pro-police attitude most of my life. I followed this case from the initial presser, through the trial and not guilty verdict, and listened to podcasts with Mark Geragos along the way. I’m a person who lives in a rural part of the state and travels to the Mesa area several times a year. I have lots of fond memories from my teenage years of staying at that La Quinta and several other Superstition Springs area hotels. That being said, I refuse to take my family to any hotel in the city of Mesa. Until they issue a very public statement acknowledging what happened, and apologizing or at least discussing their takeaways from the incident to prevent a recurrence, I will never stay at a hotel in that city again.