No reason for this man to have been killed. Can one of our legal brethren please tell me why he couldn't have been hand-cuffed while he was face down on the floor, legs crossed and arms stretched out in front of him? Why continue to give him orders and make him crawl towards you? it almost seems like he kept ordering him to do things, waiting on him to make a mistake.
Philip Brailsford has been rehired by Mesa PD.
I almost lost my s**t when I read that.
I regained my s**t, to a small extent, in reading that it was basically a scam to get his pension.
After murder acquittal, Mesa ex-cop Philip Brailsford made a pension deal
At least he's not back on the street, badge and gun in hand, murdering anyone else.
I wish his victim's family could take every penny of the $2569/month he's raking in.
Execute an unarmed, sobbing man on his knees ----> get $2,500 a month for life because of your PTSD from executing him.
Man it must be wonderful to be a cop in Mesa.
Must be nice to conveniently ignore the furtive movements he was making, his non compliance, and his reaching for his waistband after being warned if he reached for his waistband he would be shot.
Tragedy, sure, but not murder.
There is something fundamentally broken in your head and in your soul if you can watch that video and conclude gunning him down on his knees with a rifle after screaming contradictory orders was justified.
He had him AT RIFLE POINT. There was no cause to shoot him for his hand drifting toward his falling-down shorts. There was no weapon present. He was attempting to comply with contradictory, unnecessary orders.