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Mesa recently paid $1.5 million to the parents of Daniel Shaver, who police shot and killed five years ago.
The payment comes as the city and parents Norma and Grady Shaver signed off on a settlement agreement last month, while the Texas man’s widow is pressing for a trial in her ongoing suit against the city.
Shaver was fatally shot in a Mesa hotel hallway as he was on his knees, unarmed and begging for his life, according to a police report and body camera footage from January 2016.
Then-Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford shot Shaver, 26, five times after he moved his hand near his waistband, indicating that he may have been armed, according to the police report.
A cop murdered a 17yo white boy a few days ago in Arkansas. Are you going to protest and demand justice?
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Protests are a fickle matter. You can t make people care. George Floyd was a one in a million shot record on a 17 year old phone. Against all odds a single person gave a fuck. against all odds a hundred more gave a single fuck. against all odds thousands, then millions, then the world gave a single fuck.
Protests are not fairly disturbed. That s not the point. It s not a contradictory to have one protest and not available for another. It was a one in a million shot to begin with. Why discredit it when we already know its a common problem? Why dilute ourselves on everything and get nothing done? While a one in a million is breaking the tradition, breaking the norm, and try to do some level of good.