re: This problem affects us all. PDs need accountability. Remember Daniel Shaver.

That could be...confusing news reports:

Shaver's wife requested that the Mesa Police Department release bodycam footage of the event.[20] The request for the bodycam footage was initially refused. In a recording released by Shaver's wife, purportedly of a meeting between her and Maricopa County prosecutors, she was told that she could watch the video only if she agreed not to discuss its contents with the press.[14] Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Brailsford's murder trial asked that the bodycam footage be sealed.[21] Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers granted the motion to seal the footage.[22]

“The full unedited body camera footage of the shooting was released by the Mesa Police Department hours after Brailsford was found not guilty of murder and reckless manslaughter.[20]”

“The full unedited body camera footage of the shooting was released by the Mesa Police Department hours after Brailsford was found not guilty of murder and reckless manslaughter.[20]” In the official police report of the incident, Brailsford defended his actions, saying that Shaver crawling towards the officers was Shaver "trying to gain a position of advantage in order to gain a better firing position on us". Shaver had indeed crawled towards the officers after one of them instructed him to. The report stated: "Shaver was co-operative, but sometimes confused by the commands and because of his possible intoxication".[31]

Four months after the shooting, Charles Langley, the officer who gave orders to Shaver, retired from the department. By December 2017, Langley had emigrated to the Philippines.[32][33]