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   From: cop.nuttery@thanks.obama.com   
      
   The family of an unarmed Texas man shot dead by police inside an   
   Arizona hotel last week are demanding authorities release body   
   cam footage of the shooting, which they claim was a homicide.   
      
   Daniel Shaver, 26, a traveling businessman from Granbury, was   
   fatally shot by a police officer on January 18 inside the La   
   Quinta Inn in Mesa.   
      
   Police were called to the hotel amid reports of a man pointing a   
   gun out the window of a fifth-floor room.   
      
   According to Shaver's family, the father of two traveled with   
   two pellet rifles because of his work with pest control.   
      
   Six officers arrived at the scene around 9.20 p.m. and said that   
   Shaver was found in his room with a woman.   
      
   The woman complied with police and left the room, however   
   officials said Shaver was difficult.   
      
   Mesa Police Detective Steve Barry said Shaver repeatedly reached   
   toward his lower back, concealing his hands.   
      
   'Based on the initial report of the suspect having a gun, not   
   complying with commands and reaching behind his body, the   
   officer felt threatened and discharged his weapon, striking the   
   suspect,' Barry told The Tennessean.   
      
   Shaver was pronounced dead at the scene.   
      
   Barry confirmed that Shaver was not armed at the time of his   
   death.   
      
   The pellet rifles were later found inside the room.   
      
   According to Laney Sweet, Shaver's wife, the way police have   
   explained the incident does not sound like something her husband   
   would do.   
      
   'All of the details are not clear right now,' Sweet told the   
   newspaper.   
      
   'Daniel passed away in the hallway of his hotel, unarmed. His   
   friends and family are hurting. We want to know why the officer   
   felt justified to fire his weapon.'   
      
   She added to Fox 4: 'What justified six police officers feeling   
   so threatened?'   
      
   On a GoFundMe page set up in the aftermath of Shaver's death,   
   Sweet wrote that the officers were wearing body cameras and   
   requested to see the footage.   
      
   She also said that there were two people in Shaver's room at the   
   time the police were called - a man and a woman - and that the   
   two were guests at the hotel who had befriended Shaver.   
      
   She believes someone must have been holding one of Shaver's   
   rifles.   
      
   'I want to hear the 911 calls and see what footage is on the   
   body cameras,' Sweet told The Tennessean.   
      
   'My kids deserve answers to make as much peace as possible with   
   a horrible tragic situation.   
      
   'We want to know why my husband is dead.'   
      
   The couple have two daughters - Emery, 3, and Natalie, 6   
      
   The officer involved in the incident has worked with the Mesa   
   Police Department for two and a half years and is currently   
   administratively reassigned.   
      
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3416559/Wife-demands-   
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   hallway-fellow-guest-claimed-pointing-gun-window.html   
           
      
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