Sunday, April 25, 2021
WATCH 5 Hours of "The Mesa Way" > Mesa City Council Remote Public Meetings (3) Streaming from The Lower Chambers Week of April 19-24 2021
For some reason (unknown at this time) Brother John and Brother Christopher appear uneasy and uncomfortable - hesitatingly going through the usual motions of the City Council's mediocre Mental Group-Think.
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| File #: | 21-0407 |
| Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
| In control: | City Council Study Session |
| On agenda: | 4/19/2021 |
| Title: | Transit Services budget |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation |
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| File #: | 21-0450 |
| Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
| In control: | City Council Study Session |
| On agenda: | 4/19/2021 |
| Title: | Transportation budget |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation |
- Update to the Transportation Plan, which will be coordinated with General Plan Update $300K
- Traffic Analyst w/ Mesa PD NEW position to be shared with Mesa PD and will analyze data related to photo safety, traffic, crashes, enforcement, vehicular crime and other related data $91K 10
- Pavement Preservation Increase Overlays to $10M (from $8M) and Pavement Maintenance to $10M (from $8M) $4M
| File #: | 21-0446 |
| Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
| In control: | City Council Study Session |
| On agenda: | 4/15/2021 |
| Title: | Energy Resources budget |
| Attachments: | 1. Presentation |
- OMS, Smart Meters & Smart Energy
- Connecting & Communicating with our customers
- Meeting our customers’ energy wants & needs
- California and Texas Market Instability Impacts
- Renewable Energy & Sustainability
| Name | Meeting Date |  | Meeting Time | Meeting Location | Meeting Details | Agenda | Minutes | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Council Study Session | 4/29/2021 | | 7:30 AM | Lower Council Chambers | Meeting details | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing | 4/28/2021 | | 4:00 PM | Virtual Platform | Meeting details |  Agenda | Not available | Not available |
| Planning and Zoning Board - Study Session | 4/28/2021 | | 2:30 PM | Virtual Platform | Meeting details | Agenda | Not available | Not available |
| Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing | 4/22/2021 | | 4:00 PM | Council Chambers | Meeting details | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| City Council Study Session | 4/22/2021 | | 7:30 AM | Lower Council Chambers | Meeting details | Agenda | Not available |  Video |
| City Council | 4/19/2021 | | 5:45 PM | Council Chambers | Meeting details | Agenda | Not available | Video |
| City Council Study Session | 4/19/2021 | | 4:45 PM | Lower Council Chambers | Meeting details | Agenda | Not available | Video |
Council Study Session - 4/19/21
City Council Meeting - 4/19/21
Council Study Session - 4/22/2021
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Mapping Police Violence: State and City Comparisons
Most officers never fire their guns. But some kill multiple people — and are still on the job.
State Comparison Tool
Use this tool to hold Police Chiefs and Mayors accountable for ending police violence in your city. The charts below use data from January, 2013 through December, 2017 to show which police departments are most - and least - likely to kill people. You can also compare police departments operating in jurisdictions with similar levels of crime to show that, even under similar circumstances, some police departments are much more likely to kill people than others. And after you've explored this tool, click here to learn about police violence in your state.
Key Findings:
27% of U.S. police killings between January 2013 - December 2017 were committed by police departments of the 100 largest U.S. cities.
Black people were 39% of people killed by these 100 police departments despite being only 21% of the population in their jurisdictions.
Only 1 of the 100 largest city police departments did not kill anyone from Jan 2013 - Dec 2017 (Irvine, CA).
48% of unarmed people killed by the 100 largest city police departments were black. These police departments killed unarmed black people at a rate 4 times higher than unarmed white people.
Rates of violent crime in cities did not make it any more or less likely for police departments to kill people. For example, Buffalo and Newark police departments had low rates of police violence despite high crime rates while Spokane and Bakersfield had relatively low crime rates and high rates of police violence.
Friday, April 23, 2021
Here in Mesa: The Brutal Killing of Daniel Shaver...His Widow Laney Sweet is Going Social on Tik Tok
Widow of Daniel Shaver demands police reform and accountability in viral TikTok video
'Can someone please tell me how is it possible... that these police officers keep getting away with murder?'
She claims that the city paid for the bankruptcy and that in the filing, “he requested to keep the gun he used to murder [Daniel Shaver].”
“Tell me, if you have PTSD from shooting and killing somebody, do you want to keep that weapon? Do you fight to keep that?”
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Daniel Shaver's Widow Uses TikTok to Fight for Justice Over Police Shooting
Shaver, 26, was shot by former Mesa police officer Philip "Mitch" Brailsford five times in January 2016 after officers responded to a report of someone pointing a rifle out of hotel room window.
Shaver, a white man from Granbury, Texas, did have a pellet gun in his room, which he used for his work in pest control, but he was unarmed when he was shot dead in the hallway of the La Quinta Inn & Suites. Witnesses told police that Shaver had been showing off the pellet gun to two guests he had met earlier in the night.
Brailsford was fired from the Mesa Police Department for violating departmental policy. He was charged with second-degree murder, but acquitted after a trial in late 2017.
It was only after the acquittal that authorities released body camera footage of the shooting, showing Shaver tearfully pleading with officers not to shoot him as officers barked orders and berated him repeatedly.
In January that year, Shaver's widow Laney Sweet filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Mesa, the officers who responded to the call and the parent company of the hotel involved, alleging Shaver did nothing during the encounter that justified deadly force. She is seeking $75 million in damages, The Associated Press reported at the time.
That lawsuit remains underway, Sweet said in a video posted on her TikTok page. She's started using the popular video app to raise awareness about her late husband's shooting. Since joining the app a few days ago, Sweet has amassed almost 10,000 followers and more than 130,000 likes on her videos
"For those of you fighting for police accountability and justice, research Daniel Shaver. Daniel was my husband. He was shot and killed five years ago," she said in one video.
In another clip, she detailed how Shaver had begged for his life before he was shot multiple times.
"Can someone please help explain to me how is it possible in the United States of America that these police officers keep getting away with murder?" Sweet said. "My husband Daniel Shaver was shot and killed five years ago while crying on the ground pleading for his life saying, 'Please don't shoot me.' He was compliant. He was unarmed. He didn't even have shoes on."
In another video, Sweet referred to the spate of police killings in the U.S., such as the death of George Floyd.
"People, it's time to wake up," she said. "Even when you comply and you try and you beg for your life and you say 'please don't shoot me' and you tell them that you can't breathe and you cry and you plead and you beg... they don't care.
"Because some cops are just out looking to kill people and they get away with it. And it keeps happening. And it's going to keep happening until people wake up and demand change."
In her videos, Sweet also spoke about how Brailsford, the officer who fatally shot Shaver, would get a pension for the rest of his life, while she and her children are struggling financially.
According to reports, Brailsford signed an agreement in 2018 to be rehired by the Mesa Police Department temporarily so he could apply for accidental disability pension and medical retirement due to a PTSD diagnosis. The PTSD stemmed from the shooting of Shaver and the resulting prosecution, an attorney for the officer told ABC15 in 2018.
"He was charged with second-degree murder, acquitted and then reinstated so he could get PTSD benefits for claiming disability for murdering my husband," she said in one video. "He's collecting a pension for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, my daughters and I are losing our housing and don't know where we're going to move next month and we don't have a working vehicle. Tell me how this is justice."
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