Fired ex-Mesa police Officer who killed unarmed man rehired to help him get a public-safety pension

[muriel_volestrangler]

Philip "Mitch" Brailsford, a former Mesa police officer acquitted of killing an unarmed man in 2016, was temporarily rehired by the department so he could apply for a monthly pension, records show.

A Maricopa County jury found Brailsford not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting of 26-year-old Daniel Shaver, who was unarmed and on his knees begging for his life when the officer shot him five times in the hallway of a Mesa hotel.

Brailsford was fired in March 2016. City and court records show he was briefly rehired by the Mesa Police Department in 2018 so he could apply for the pension, which totals more than $30,000 annually.
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Commander Ed Wessing, a Mesa police spokesman, clarified that Brailsford "was not in any way fulfilling a capacity as a police officer" during the 42-day period.

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2019/07/10/mesa-police-officer-philip-brailsford-rehired-pension-daniel-shaver-shooting/1698540001/

So they just wanted to give the killer a big fat pension.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Cops down here stick together ... I'll give 'em that ...

I'm betting the cop, and whoever re-hired him ... are both LDS, and both 'big-gubmint' haters.

Prosecutor also conspicuously over-charged ... nailing an on-duty cop on 2nd degree murder is almost unheard of.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Hmmm. Gee

there is a pattern that some recognize . Who runs Mesa? Who is the Largest single group that runs Mesa? There is your answer. Seen this pattern in the State bordering Arizona on the North.

[dameatball]

3. The victim's relatives need to go after that money.