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NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts) Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:24 PM Jul 2019

Police officer who fatally shot sobbing man temporarily rehired to apply for pension

Source: NBC News

A former Mesa, Arizona, police officer who was acquitted two years ago in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man seen on video pleading "please do not shoot me" was temporarily rehired by his department last year so he could apply for an accidental disability pension.

Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 28, is now retired from the force with a tax-free pension worth $31,000 a year for life — and his attorney confirmed Friday that the settlement was a result of him suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to the shooting involving Daniel Shaver of Texas.

Shaver was seen on police bodycam video crawling on the floor of a Mesa hotel and sobbing for his life before he was shot — a case that drew national scrutiny over the use of deadly force.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-officer-who-fatally-shot-sobbing-man-temporarily-rehired-apply-n1028981

Oh Karma, where art thou?

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Police officer who fatally shot sobbing man temporarily rehired to apply for pension (Original Post) NeoConsSuck Jul 2019 OP

.................................. alittlelark Jul 2019 #1

Remember when we had outrage fatigue in the middle of the bush administration? Beaverhausen Jul 2019 #2

Get a lifetime pension for committing murder. CanonRay Jul 2019 #3

Karma depends upon hubris bucolic_frolic Jul 2019 #4

Unforgivable resolution, the worst. Hope he spends the rest of his life right there in that hall. Judi Lynn Jul 2019 #5

He is a Mormon not fooled Jul 2019 #6

Corruption goes up and down the system, doesn't it. And Mormon-nationalism is like white-nationalism Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2019 #8

Any chance that part of Arizona leans tRump-Republicon? Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2019 #7

Ridiculous Owl Jul 2019 #9

Watch the video GETPLANING Jul 2019 #10

+1. I saw it. Sickening dalton99a Jul 2019 #12

Shoot to kill, claim stress from killing, get disability pension for life dalton99a Jul 2019 #11

why is his disability considered 'accidental?' cab67 Jul 2019 #13

Let's just give pensions to all the killers in prison. LuvNewcastle Jul 2019 #14

outrageous Demovictory9 Jul 2019 #15

This is a good example of why most cops should be disarmed Blues Heron Jul 2019 #16

alittlelark

(18,890 posts)

1. ..................................

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:46 PM

Jul 2019

Beaverhausen

(24,470 posts)

2. Remember when we had outrage fatigue in the middle of the bush administration?

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:51 PM

Jul 2019

How naive we were.

This is beyond fucked up.

How. Did. We. Get. Here?

CanonRay

(14,112 posts)

3. Get a lifetime pension for committing murder.

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:53 PM

Jul 2019

Not despite doing so, because of it.

bucolic_frolic

(43,258 posts)

4. Karma depends upon hubris

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 08:55 PM

Jul 2019

sometimes there's a lot of that to go around

Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts)

5. Unforgivable resolution, the worst. Hope he spends the rest of his life right there in that hall.

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:08 PM

Jul 2019

Hope he will never be free of what he did to that unarmed man.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)

6. He is a Mormon

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:17 PM

Jul 2019

they take care of their own, especially in a state rife with LDS, as is AZ.

Explains a lot.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,033 posts)

8. Corruption goes up and down the system, doesn't it. And Mormon-nationalism is like white-nationalism

Reply to not fooled (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:28 PM

Jul 2019

Both are hyphenated nationalisms.

In-group/out-group

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,033 posts)

7. Any chance that part of Arizona leans tRump-Republicon?

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:26 PM

Jul 2019

Owl

(3,643 posts)

9. Ridiculous

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 10:27 PM

Jul 2019

GETPLANING

(846 posts)

10. Watch the video

Reply to NeoConsSuck (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 12:50 AM

Jul 2019

This cop belongs in prison. He couldn't WAIT to waste that poor guy. Now that it has faded from public awareness, the system hires him for a few days so he can still receive his pension? I swear, the only people more dishonest than the mob are the cops.