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Life. >> then listen to my instructions. >> im trying. dont talk. listen. hands straight up in the air. do not put your hands down for any reason you. think youre going to fall, you better fall on your face. your hands go back into the small of your back, we are going to shoot you, do you understand me? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: an officer orders shaver to crawl toward him. shaver complies but then moves his right hand behind him, despite the warning. officer philip mitchell fires five rounds, k...

>> brailsford fires five rounds killing shaver. brailsford was charged with second degree murder over this shooting. in an interview with police he said he thought shaver was going for a gun saying he could have quickly and easily drawn a weapon down on us and fired without aiming. he could have hit us or the citizen we had just detained. no gun was found on shaver. brailsford was acquitted last week. his defender say his actions were justified. >> every subject matter expert who reviewed this s...

Police were responding to reports of a man pointing a rifle out of on hotel room window. >> hands up in the air! you do that again, we are shooting you! do you understand? >> please do not shoot me. >> reporter: begging for his life. >> listen to my instruction! dont talk! listen! hands straight up in the air! do not put your hands down for any reason! you think youre going to fall, youre going to fall on your face! your hands go back into the mall small of your back, we are going to shoot you, ...

For a gun and saying he could have easily fired without aiming and could have hit us or the citizen that we had just detained. no gun was found on shaver. brailsford was acquitted last week. his defender saying his actions were justified. >> pretty much every use of force subject matter expert that reviewed this case absolutely said he acted consistently with his training. >> reporter: on the tape, shaver is repeatedly ordered to follow officers instructions. >> if you make a mistake, another mi...

Welcome back. 20 minutes until the top of the hour now. official in mesa, arizona, released body cam footage showing what happened when a police officer shot and killed a man in 2016. the video was released after the former officer was acquitted of murdering daniel shaver. the man had no weapon and unarmed here. the video shows shaver complying with commands and begging for his life. you see him there hands down, face down. >> we need to warn you about this video here. youre going to see it. i...