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And in fairness to ex-Mesa officer Philip Brailsford, that movement could easily have been interpreted as someone reaching for a gun. While crawling, Shaver tragically did make a quick movement with his right hand toward his hip. That command essentially acknowledged that it’s really difficult to crawl forward on your knees with your hands in the air, especially for someone who was drunk like Shaver. He also told Shaver to not move his hands, even if it meant falling on his face. Langley then ordered Shaver to crawl towards the officers on his knees with his hands in the air. Langley to scream, “Put your hands up in the air! You do that again and we’re shooting you!” A sobbing Shaver begged them to not shoot him. While on his knees, Daniel Shaver put his hands behind his back, which led Sgt. That decision ultimately cost Shaver his life as any unforeseen movements by his hands were considered threatening to the officers. Langley yelled for Shaver to rise to his knees. Instead of ordering one of the six officers to handcuff Shaver, Sgt. At one point, Daniel Shaver was face down on the floor of the hallway with his hands on the top of his head and his feet crossed. Charles Langley, which were highly confrontational and contradictory. However, Shaver and his female guest clearly tried to follow the verbal commands from Mesa Police Sgt.

He was showing it to a woman he had met earlier in the day. Unknown to the six officers who arrived at the scene, it was a pellet gun that Shaver used for his work in pest control. Is that a fair criticism? After all, police were called to the La Quinta Inn where Shaver was staying because witnesses saw him pointing a gun out of the window of his room. No room in policing for cops this scared and ill-prepared.” Alarming and Contradictory This is one of the worst I’ve ever witnessed.” Stamper wrote, “One of the worst I’ve seen, as well. He responded to the tweet by the journalist Shaun King who stated, “Sadly I’ve studied 100s of videos of American police executing non-violent, unarmed people. Norm Stamper, a former police officer who served for 28 years with the San Diego police force and six years as the chief of police in Seattle, gave his thoughts on Twitter.