Title: Video shows police killing of Daniel Shaver in Mesa, Arizona (viewer discretion advised) Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62Va6Ft2cw Published:Dec 8, 2017 Author:Staff Post Date:2017-12-08 22:16:22 by Horse Keywords:None Views:234 Comments:2
Poster Comment:
Body Cam footage. Cop was found not guilty of murder by a jury. Unbelievable verdict. Cop was guilty. He was on a power trip.
The kid was obviously terrified. The cop was yelling, telling him to shut up as the kid was trying to comply.
I think the prosecutors in these cases only go into the court half-motivated to get a conviction. They really don't want one most of the time, I think.
This was the cop who had the shoot em up type slogans written on his rifle, right? Something like that?
Reading more on it, it turns out the cop barking out all the confusing orders like the one to crawl with your hands over your head, was not the cop who shot him. That cop apparently didn't say anything, or anything much. So he couldn't be blamed for the confusing orders. He just got to shoot when the guy put his hand down by his waist (to pull up his shorts after being ordered to crawl). So doubtless that's all he was judged on.
So it was actually both cops acting in concert that were responsible for the murder. One to issue all kinds of shouted, confusing and excessively strict orders along with threats of death, and the other to shoot him when he did something wrong. But only the shooter was on trial.
How do you divvy up a murder charge between two cops like that? Was the shouting cop actually more responsible for the murder? In a similar case where 2 civilians were involved in shooting an innocent man, don't they charge both as accomplices?