Daniel Shaver begged for his life before being killed by cop.

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Laney Sweet, the widow of Daniel Shaver, an unarmed man who was shot five times and killed by a Mesa, Arizona, police officer in January, is seeking to have body camera footage from the shooting publicly released. Sweet previously declined an apparent offer from prosecutors to personally view the footage on the condition that she not discuss what she saw with the media. She recorded and published audio of that conversation on YouTube.



"Please Don't Shoot Me," Man Begged


Shaver’s case became national news this week after the release of a harrowing police report describing the circumstances of his death. Shaver was unarmed, crawling, and pleading with officers not to shoot him moments before Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford repeatedly shot him with an AR-15 rifle, according to the report. The report also alleges that another officer repeatedly threatened to shoot Shaver.

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Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, responded with a comment. “Our sole focus is to ensure that justice is done in this case, and the person we feel is responsible for a crime is held accountable, and that we conduct the case in a way that allows us to hold him accountable…Releasing the video publicly would interfere with that process,” he said. “For God’s sake, we charged the guy with second-degree murder. Why is the public and some corners of the media clamoring for us to torpedo the case by destroying this guy’s ability to get a fair trial? It just doesn’t make sense.”

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According to the police report, police responded to Shaver’s Mesa hotel room after he and another man briefly pointed a rifle out of his fifth-floor window. Shaver was traveling for work, the report alleges, and had been drinking with a man and a woman he met at the hotel. The woman told police that Shaver said he used the rifle for his job killing wild birds that made their way into Walmart stores. He and the other man were playing with the gun when they pointed it out the window, she said.

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On Tuesday, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge approved a joint motion from county prosecutors and Brailsford’s defense attorney to place a protective order on footage from Brailford’s body camera, effectively barring its release to the public. The order allows for interested parties to file objections within a 10-day period

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