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Friday, November 25, 2022

Wife of Texas man killed by police in Arizona settles suit

PHOENIX (AP) — The widow of an unarmed Texas man fatally shot by police outside his suburban Phoenix hotel room in 2016 has agreed to settle her wrongful death lawsuit. 

A notice of settlement filed Tuesday in federal court in Arizona shows that Laney Sweet, the wife of Daniel Shaver, and her two children will receive $8 million from the city of Mesa.

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I remember the video from the body cam. The kid was ordered to crawl towards the cops and he was complying, pleading in tears for the cops not to shoot. The gym shorts he was wearing started to slip and he reached back to pull them back up, a natural reaction, and the cop executed him.