Arizona policeman who shot unarmed man pleads innocent to murder charge
Source: Reuters
Arizona policeman who shot unarmed man pleads innocent to murder charge
Reuters
By David Schwartz
48 minutes ago
PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona police officer who shot an unarmed man to death at a Phoenix-area hotel earlier this year pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges on Tuesday.
Officer Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 25, was allowed to remain free without bail by a county judge after entering his plea during a brief hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court, according to a court spokesman.
Brailsford is charged with murder in the fatal shooting in January of Daniel Shaver during a confrontation outside a suburban Mesa, Arizona, hotel room, officials said.
Prosecutors say Brailsford was not justified in using deadly force against Shaver after he responded to a report that a man was pointing a rifle outside a fifth-floor window at the La Quinta Inn.
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)that now OPs sink like a stone. I still find it abhorrent that people are being killed by cops continues unabated.
valerief
(53,235 posts)phones, we're just finding out about these things.