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A 2016 police body camera shows Daniel Shaver on his knees in a Mesa hotel hallway, hands up, sobbing "Please do not shoot me." He was unarmed. Officer Philip Brailsford shot him five times, was acquitted of murder, and got a $2,500-a-month pension for PTSD from that night.

Shaver was 26, a pest-control worker from Texas with two little girls. Guests at the La Quinta Inn had seen someone point a rifle out of his fifth-floor window. It was a pellet gun he used for work, and it was still in the room when six officers lined up at the end of the hall.

Sgt. Charles Langley ran the commands: "If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you're both going to get shot." When Shaver started to ask something, Langley cut him off with "Shut up. I'm not here to be tactful or diplomatic with you. You listen, you obey." Then came the rules: legs crossed, hands up, never put them down for any reason, crawl toward us.

While he crawled, his basketball shorts slid down and his hand went back toward his waist. Brailsford fired five rounds from an AR-15 with "You're f*cked" etched on it. Mesa's own incident report called the movement "consistent with attempting to pull his shorts up" and said "no other purposes for this movement appear to be viable."

In the video below, the last 30 seconds of the body camera, from "Please do not shoot me" to the second before the shots. Then the Mesa city manager, asked by ABC15 where Brailsford's PTSD came from.

Mesa fired Brailsford, and a jury acquitted him in December 2017. In 2018 the city quietly took him back without pay, long enough for him to apply for an accidental disability pension, and the board, with the city manager voting yes, gave him $2,500 a month. In 2022 Mesa paid Shaver's widow $8 million.

Was it a split-second call any officer could have made, or an execution the city ended up paying a pension for?

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A 15-year-old girl in Margate, Florida typed "I need help, please, please, please" into the chat of her online class, from a house where, police say, her aunt and uncle kept her locked in two closets, bound with zip ties, with a bucket for a toilet. When police knocked, her uncle had already made her

It was October 24, 2023. Her aunt Latricia Crawley, 46, and uncle Benjamin Lockett, 43, had raised her since 2014. On the porch Crawley told officers the girl had run away twice, had "a lot of issues" and had been sneaking elderberry vitamins. "It's not the first time this happened," she said.

Officers walked the girl away from the house. She told them Lockett got angry when he thought she ate candy, and the arrest report says he punched her in the head and she slammed it into the corner of a desk. He told her she wouldn't eat for a week, and after he found her messages, the report says, he made her take a shower before police got there. "They put me in a closet so I can't come out," she said, and when an officer asked if she had just gotten out of the shower, she said yes: "They tried to wash it off before you came here."

At the hospital officers found scars consistent with ligature marks, bruising, insect bites and signs of malnutrition, with the bones of her spine showing. The report says that at 13 Crawley oiled her knees and made her kneel on rice for days, and that a pot of boiling water was thrown at her. There were locks on the outside of both closets and blood inside one. When officers came back, it had been cleaned up. Once in custody, neither guardian asked about her. They asked to give up custody instead.

In the video below, the aunt on the porch, the teacher's 911 call, what the girl told officers once she was away from the house, and both arrests.

Three more relatives were arrested later, two of them on abuse charges. In August 2026 amended charging documents added that Crawley pushed thumbtacks through the girl's fingernails and used a stapler gun on her back. Crawley and Lockett have pleaded not guilty.

She's 17 now. Her lawyer has sued the agency that placed her in that house, saying a registered sex offender lived there the whole time, and the lawsuit says that after she got out, she was assaulted again in group homes. One of the companies told the court it was her own fault for running away.

Who failed her worse, the family that locked her in those closets, or the system that put her there and then blamed her?

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@TheIsoleucine the real robber got picked up a few hours later. on that footage they ask him to stand up and if they can search him. no tackle

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A Boulder cop jumped out of his car, pulled 17-year-old Galileo Wise off his bike and slammed him to the ground in a tunnel while other officers piled on. "What did I do?" Leo kept asking as they cut off his backpack straps and cuffed him, and his lawsuit says that when their sergeant got there, he said

It was June 5, 2025. Leo, as everyone calls him, was riding to a 2:45 haircut. That afternoon a man had robbed a US Bank across town of $2,200, and the bank had slipped a GPS tracker into the cash. The radio said tan skin, green shirt, glasses. Leo was in teal pants and a bike helmet that covered his face. "I saw like a bike with someone greenish," one officer said.

His lawyers say the tracker had been sitting still at a Starbucks on the corner above the tunnel for two minutes while Leo was moving. When Officer Austin Myers yelled stop, Leo braked with his hands on the levers, and Myers pulled him off the bike anyway and read him his rights.

The sergeant, Steven Faber, said "That's not him," according to the lawsuit, and kept him detained, while the officers looking at the bank photo agreed it "doesn't look like him." Then Myers told Leo the robber had worn tan and green clothes, had been moving like someone on a bike, and that the tracker led to "pretty much your exact location." He said he took him down because "it was a robbery with a gun." His lawyers say nobody had reported a gun.

When Leo got his mom on the phone, the first thing he said was, "Hi mom, this is kind of a serious situation." Later his father asked Myers, "There's so many people on bikes riding around on college campuses and you tackle my son?" Myers wouldn't say whether he was the one who did it: "I'm not able to provide all that information, sir." And Faber told him: "Keep up the good work... I wouldn't change it for anything."

The real robber, 46-year-old David Lloyd Martinez, was arrested less than three hours after the robbery. The police chief cleared Myers on all four complaints, including excessive force, and found only that Faber had kept Leo detained too long. In July 2026 Leo sued both of them, saying he got a concussion and couldn't finish his senior year.

Leo was 17, and he was on his way to get a haircut. Watch how fast "That's not him" turns into "I wouldn't change it for anything."

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@BkdBttrdPotato3 and the chief cleared the cop who tackled him on all 4 complaints. only the sergeant got dinged, for holding him too long

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source: The Civil Rights Lawyer @johnbryanesq on YouTube

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A Georgia deputy pushed into Natasha Lopez's home without a warrant and arrested her while she was on the phone with 911. A year later prosecutors traced an anonymous page posting AI images of a fake OnlyFans with her face back to the same deputy.

On August 30, 2025, Cpl. Charles Mills of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office came to her house in Woodstock looking for her 21-year-old son, who didn't live there, over a motorcycle he believed had sped past him on another day. She told him to come back with a warrant and asked him to leave.

He came back about ten minutes later with an arrest warrant for the son and cuffed him in the front yard. Then he said he believed there was evidence inside, walked up the steps and pushed the front door open into her younger son, who was filming through the door. "Do you have a warrant? This is being videotaped," she kept saying.

She called 911, and when the operator picked up he grabbed her, took her phone and arrested her for obstruction. She says she had never been arrested in her life and had to strip down at the jail for booking.

The sheriff's office told local TV he was doing a protective sweep for officer safety, while his own report, as civil rights attorney John Bryan reads it, says he went in after a cell phone he thought they would destroy. He got a search warrant for that phone after she was already in the patrol car.

For the next year she fought the arrest online. Then a Facebook page called "Not So Noble" started posting her family's information, her child's unredacted juvenile records and AI-generated images of a fake OnlyFans account using her face. Every time she got it taken down, a new one showed up. On September 22, 2026, the Solicitor General's Office identified the owner as Cpl. Charles Mills.

In the video below, the bodycam from that night, from the moment he walks in to the moment she's arrested on the phone with 911.

He was fired on October 2, and in October a judge gave her a 12-month stalking protective order. No criminal charges have been filed against him. She still faces two counts of obstruction, one for not leaving her own porch and one for not leaving her own house, each carrying up to 12 months in jail.

He had a warrant for her son. Did that give him the right to walk into her house, or should her case have been thrown out a year ago?

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source: The Civil Rights Lawyer @johnbryanesq on YouTube

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@johnbryanesq fair, that's on me. should've credited you from the start. your full breakdown is the one people should watch

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An Arkansas state trooper cuffed Amanda Prince for driving on a suspended license, put her in his back seat without searching her, and switched off his cameras as they pulled into the jail. When they came back on, a bag of cocaine was on his hood and she was facing 6 to 30 years for

It was December 17, 2023, in Monticello. "Bull crap, because that was not on me," she told him. "Well, that's fine," Trooper Christian Morphis answered. "I got a camera that watched the whole thing." He said he'd vacuumed his back seat at a carwash right before the stop, so the bag could only be hers.

In his report he wrote that his backseat camera showed her "moving very erratically" and "digging in her waistline" before the drugs were found. She posted a $5,000 bond, lost her late father's truck to the impound fees and then her job, because she had no way to get to work.

In September 2024 a jury found her not guilty after a one-day trial. Then the State Police's own investigator watched the tape and wrote that the digging "never occurred," her hands sat on top of her shirt the entire time, and Morphis admitted he never watched the whole stop before charging her. The investigator decided the bag most likely came from a man Morphis had arrested three days earlier and never properly searched either.

Her lawyers call that a cover story. Their lawsuit says that about 10 minutes after he cuffed her, his own in-car camera caught him opening his front passenger door and tossing a bag onto the floor, the same bag he "found" in the back seat at the jail.

In the video below, the moment at the jail, the camera "that watched the whole thing," the toss, and the internal affairs interview where he's told "Either this report is a lie or it's not a lie."

He was fired in January 2025 and lost his law enforcement certification, but he has never been charged with a crime. In December 2025 the Arkansas State Police said there is "zero evidence" he planted anything.

You've seen the toss. Was it a lazy trooper's mistake, or did he plant it?

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@MartinEye1359 the board pulled his certification unanimous. still not a single charge tho

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@MrMaczapsv3 when internal affairs asked about the jail he just said "i cut my camera". called it a habit

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@Matthew08530076 and he can't even be sued, prosecutors have absolute immunity. only the trooper is being sued

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@Matthew08530076 and the deputy prosecutor watched all 42 minutes of that tape before trial and still took her to court

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@Gatorowned2 her 9 year old was home that night and she says he hasnt been the same since

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@USArmySFC_1 and look what he actually got fired for, the facebook page. walking into her house with no warrant is still fine by them

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@breathe123 fired yes, but the sheriff handed it to the GBI and as of october they hadnt even opened a case

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@staubingenetics it gets worse, he also ran her son's girlfriend through flock cameras 18 times and she wasnt suspected of anything

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@totoecrime and dss says it has no legal authority to step in unless someone reports suspected neglect or abuse to them

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31-year-old Justine May told the crisis workers at her door that she was "really sick of showing" her two little girls to people. Seventeen days later Emory, 2, and Harlow, 1, were found dead inside, starved and dehydrated, a week after deputies stopped checking on them.

Between August 10 and September 29 the sheriff's office in Charleston County got 21 calls about the house on Pinewood Drive in Ladson and went out 13 times. Her relatives kept asking someone to look in on the girls, and so did their father and a neighbor. A DSS worker went inside with deputies on August 30.

On September 12 she came to the door with Mobile Crisis standing behind the deputy. She told them she wouldn't hurt herself or anyone else and wasn't hearing voices, and that she slept seven hours a night even with the kids. "DSS has already come out here and cleared me," she told them. "The police have been out here multiple times and cleared me."

On September 20 she wouldn't open the door and said the girls were sleeping, so nobody saw them. Two days later a duty supervisor decided to stop the welfare checks, and when the calls kept coming a deputy was reportedly recorded on the radio saying, "We are no longer conducting welfare checks at that address."

On September 29 a neighbor called again, and deputies went in with her DSS caseworker and found both girls. The coroner said they had been dead for three to five days.

In the video below, the bodycam from September 12, one of the last visits where anyone saw the girls alive.

She is charged with two counts of homicide by child abuse. Sheriff Carl Ritchie defends his deputies and says there was no new information pointing to an immediate threat.

Did the sheriff's office do everything it could, or did it stop knocking a week before two little girls starved?

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15-year-old Gregory Ramos strangled his mother over a D in biology, buried her behind a church and was at school by 7:30. That afternoon he told deputies the house had been robbed, and on bodycam, with his mother missing, he complains about his $1,000 computer.

Gail Cleavenger was 46 and worked at an architecture firm in Orlando. Her van was running in the driveway with her bike still inside, and one detective called the mess in the house excessive for a burglary.

Detectives noticed fresh scratches on his face, and he gave three different stories about how he got them. In the interview room they told him the worst thing would be to put his hands on her. "I would never do something like that," he said. Then he told them about the fight over the grade, and how he said a prayer with her that night and kissed her before he went to sleep.

He confessed soon after, named two 17-year-old friends who helped stage the burglary and led detectives to the grave. Asked how he killed her, he said he started with one hand and "thought two is better than one."

In the video below, the bodycam from that afternoon, the interview, and audio from the back of a patrol car where the three boys talk about mac and cheese and graduating.

He pleaded guilty as an adult, and in January 2021 he got 45 years with a review after 25. His friends got one year each. The sheriff called him one of the "top three sociopaths" he had ever dealt with, and at sentencing Ramos said, "I can only plead for forgiveness."

He was 15. Should he ever get that second look, or was the sheriff right about him?