Yesterday, a couple of idiots decided to take me to task on what they considered my support for the outcome in the Daniel Shaver case. I was a bootlicker… no, wait, I could be perceived to be a bootlicker because of that and obviously I was not a good gun guy, etc, etc.

Let’s start with the obvious: If you use what you think are fancy word play to insult me and yet say you did not, the you are a perceived and confirmed mental midget for trying to pull sophomoric shit into an argument.

Now, much of the outrage comes from ignorance: They refuse to acknowledge that Daniel Shaver did participate in the chain of events that created his demise and is now portrayed much like a blameless victim, free from any responsibility. Of course, getting drunk and fucking around with what was seen as a real rifle by witnesses is what started the chain of events.

Next on the fuck up parade were the confusing instructions by the sergeant and a procedure that it sucked chocolate salty balls. I am going with this being 90% of the cause of Shaver’s death. Unfortunately it was not him who went to trial but the trigger-puller, officer Philip Brailsford.

Now, were   Philip Brailsford’s actions against the law? According to what the jury saw, they were not. And truthfully, Shaver reaching around to the small of his back is a huge indicator that a weapon might be about to make its presence know,

So overall it is a shit case. No clear good guys or bad guys, just two sides of stupid and unprofessional…which neither is criminal.  So, rather than run from cyber tree to cyber tree looking for a rope of ignominy to lynch Philip Brailsford, why don’t we figure what went wrong and what needs to change within Mesa PD so this shit has a reduced chance to happen again. It tends to be a wee be more productive and in the end it will avoid other stupid deaths.

By the way, these “outragers” never even gave a thought about the civil lawsuits totally over $100 million against Mesa PD brought by the wife and the parents of Mr. Shaver.  Even if they get half, the county is gonna feel that one and probably somebody will have to pay for that colossal load of crap.

You have to accept that in Life, you get very few chances for perfect justice or what you think it should be. Learn to live with it and stop being a perceived asshole when shit does not go your Barbie and Ken Hawaiian Holiday way.

That is all.

PS: One of the outragers identified hisself as a retired police officer who quit the force after five years because he was sick of the cop shit against civilians. Strangely enough, Mr. Civil Rights Cop did not know the concept of felony Stop.
Good try, Butchy.