Arizona policeman who shot unarmed man pleads innocent to murder charge

[Judi Lynn]

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]

1. We need to train the police better

[Unknown Beatle]

2. So many unarmed people killed by police

that now OPs sink like a stone. I still find it abhorrent that people are being killed by cops continues unabated.

[valerief]

3. It's the new normal. I guess it was always the normal, but, thanks to cell

phones, we're just finding out about these things.