Mesa Police Sued Again for the 2nd Time Over An Officer-Involved Shooting One Year Ago

January 19, 2017

Daniel Shaver’s Widow Files $75 Million Lawsuit Against Mesa Police Department and Hotel report by Carlos Miller

Just over a week after Daniel Shaver’s parents filed a lawsuit against the Arizona police department that shot and killed their unarmed son, his widow also filed a lawsuit.
This one for $75 million in damages.
Laney Sweet filed her lawsuit Tuesday against the Mesa Police Department, including Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, the cop who killed her husband with an AR-15 with the words, “You’re Fucked” inscribed on it.
Also mentioned in the lawsuit is the hotel company where the shooting took place

According to the Associated Press, Sweet filed her lawsuit against the City of Mesa, the team of officers who responded to the hotel call, and La Quinta Holdings, the parent company of the hotel in question.

Police officer Brailsford was fired after the gruesome incident made local, national and international headlines. Only a heavily edited of on-the-scene bodycams was ever released, four months after into the litigation.

Video of the actual shooting is missing from what was released but disturbing images have been made public

 

 

 

Keep up with updates on this case by following the Justice for Daniel Shaver Facebook page. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/01/19/daniel-shavers-widow-files-75-million-lawsuit-against-mesa-police-department-and-hotel/

Who's Sharing Here In the New Urban DTMesa? ...or Does It Work Here At All?

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5 Ideas For City-Making In The Sharing Economy

Friday 20 January 2017 by Jeroen Berkman

The sharing economy is changing our cities in many different ways. Pop-Up City has been featuring many bigger and smaller cases of this phenomenon over the years.

A new entry today on the website for Pop Up City presents an overview of five what-may-be refreshing examples for them.

Here in Mesa we have the corporate version of #2 - it's called GridBikeShare with fixed locations around town and the city getting a percentage of bike rental fees.

 

2. VANMOOF x Spinlister

Dutch bike manufacturer VANMOOF teams up with Spinlister to create a smart bicycle that makes peer-to-peer bike sharing easier than ever before. Equipped with a Bluetooth lock, a GPS chip, a phone charger, an on-board computer, and automatic dynamo lights, will be able to communicate with and update its real-time location to Spinlister’s smartphone application. People looking for a bike to rent can browse the app for available vehicles around them. A bike can be dropped of wherever the renter wants — the Bluetooth lock will do its work and the owner will be able to see the GPS location. Read more →

 

Just throwing the other four cases to take a look at ... Here's  the link >> http://popupcity.net/5-ideas-for-city-making-in-the-sharing-economy/

Let's Get Politico About Lies [ Thanks to Reporter Maria Konnikova ]

Your MesaZona blogger, admittedly, never really warmed-up to "The Donald" during 22+ years living in New York City. He was one of "the Bridge-and-Tunnel people" somehow grabbing a toe-hold on real estate while smearing his name on things he called "towers". He was outdone and out-classed by Michael Bloomberg in The Big Apple, and by hook-or-by-crook or playing media tricks has staged the biggest take-over in the heist of the highest office in America in a scale and strategy not seen ever on the political stage - definitely "a show-man" like PT Barnum for those that like it when the circus arrives in town. If that's not your choice for entertainment purposes only then we have some information for you
This is out from Politico

Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain

Unfortunately, it’s no contest. Here’s what psychology tells us about life under a leader totally indifferent to the truth.

By Maria Konnikova January/February 2017

All presidents lie. Richard Nixon said he was not a crook, yet he orchestrated the most shamelessly crooked act in the modern presidency. Ronald Reagan said he wasn’t aware of the Iran-Contra deal; there’s evidence he was. Bill Clinton said he did not have sex with that woman; he did, or close enough. Lying in politics transcends political party and era. It is, in some ways, an inherent part of the profession of politicking.
But Donald Trump is in a different category. The sheer frequency, spontaneity and seeming irrelevance of his lies have no precedent. Nixon, Reagan and Clinton were protecting their reputations; Trump seems to lie for the pure joy of it. A whopping 70 percent of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked during the campaign were false, while only 4 percent were completely true, and 11 percent mostly true. (Compare that to the politician Trump dubbed “crooked,” Hillary Clinton: Just 26 percent of her statements were deemed false.)
What does this mean for the country—and for the Americans on the receiving end of Trump’s constantly twisting version of reality? It’s both a cultural question and a psychological one. For decades, researchers have been wrestling with the nature of falsehood: How does it arise? How does it affect our brains? Can we choose to combat it? The answers aren’t encouraging for those who worry about the national impact of a reign of untruth over the next four, or eight, years. Lies are exhausting to fight, pernicious in their effects and, perhaps worst of all, almost impossible to correct if their content resonates strongly enough with people’s sense of themselves, which Trump’s clearly do.
Read more >> http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658

Maria Konnikova is a contributing writer at the New Yorker and author, most recently, of The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time.

Three New Members Join Mesa City Council for A Study Session 19 Jan 2017

A picture without words - readers can watch a video in another post on this site

 

 

 

 

City employees packed the left side of the lower meeting chamber room

 

Aw-Awh > Earth's Shields Collapse into the Satellite Band

Published on Jan 18, 2017

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All Links @ http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com Sudden Spike in Radiation/Italy Quakes/Alaska Volcano Erupts.ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska volcano active since mid-December has erupted again.
Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian lslands erupted at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday and sent up an ash cloud estimated at 31,000 feet.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the aviation threat code to red, the highest level. Ash clouds higher than 20,000 feet are a threat to intercontinental jet aircraft because ash can damage engines.
The cloud height was reported by pilots.

Satellite imagery indicates the cloud was moving to the northeast over the Bering Sea.

Bogoslof Volcano is 850 miles southwest of Anchorage. The volcano erupted Dec. 16 and more than a dozen times since

Mesa City Council Study Session with 3 New Members - 1/19/2017

What a difference! WATCH

...and finally action taken on city parks here, five years after taxpayer-approved funding for million$ in 2012

One LDS Story: Just Some of the History of Mesa Arizona

 Subject to revision of course ...

Uploaded on Nov 6, 2009

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Story of the history of Mesa, Arizona