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City leaders in Mesa, Arizona, operate a municipality where the interests of police officers are valued more highly than ordinary citizens, including those the police have wronged.

Two years ago, I wrote about Daniel Shaver, an unarmed 26-year-old who in 2016 was shot to death in a hotel hallway while begging for his life. The killer, Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford, was put on trial for murder. Jurors were not allowed to know that he had scratched "You're fucked" into his service weapon. He was acquitted of murder and manslaughter, despite video of as chilling and egregious a police killing as I've ever seen.

Brailsford was at least fired from his job as a police officer. But that isn't how the story ends.

Laney Sweet, Shaver's widow, wrote about her family's suffering on Facebook. She related that their 8-year-old daughter was so despondent that she tried to choke herself at school, then declared when taken to a local hospital that "I want to be with Dad." The family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit. They've yet to be compensated by the city or the police department.

As for the cop who pulled the trigger, he was "temporarily rehired by the department so he could apply for a monthly pension," The Arizona Republic reported this month. In 2018, he was reinstated for 42 days and applied for accidental disability. "An accidental disability is one that occurred while the employee was on the clock and permanently prevents the employee from doing his or her job," the newspaper explained, adding that the pension in question "totals more than $30,000 annually." A widowed single mother could use a payout like that.

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He Killed an Unarmed Man, Then Claimed Disability

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City leaders in Mesa, Arizona, operate a municipality where the interests of police officers are valued more highly than ordinary citizens, including those the police have wronged. Two years ago, I wrote about Daniel Shaver, an unarmed 26-year-old who in 2016 was shot to death in a hotel hallway while begging for his life.

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The 32-year-old man shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in a Costco store on Friday night in Corona was nonverbal and had an intellectual disability, according to a family member.

Kenneth French of Riverside lived with his parents and had the mental capacity of a teenager, said his cousin, Rick Shureih, in a phone interview with the Los Angeles Times on Sunday night.

"He was a gentle giant," Shureih said. "He's never been violent in the past. He's always been very cooperative and kept to himself."
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According to Corona police, an off-duty officer with the Los Angeles Police Department was shopping at Costco with his family when he was attacked while holding his young child. Police said the assault was unprovoked and led the officer to fire his weapon, striking French and two of his family members.

The officer's child was not injured.

Corona police offered no further details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting.

Shureih identified his relatives as Russell and Paola French, Kenneth French's parents - both of whom were being treated in an intensive care unit Sunday night. Paola French was still in a coma, Shureih said, while Russell French's condition has improved some since the shooting.

The officer, who has not been identified, suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital and then discharged, said Officer Greg Kraft of the LAPD. The officer is assigned to the department's Southwest Division.

Russell French, 58, has yet to give a public account of the shooting.

Shureih doesn't know what might have led to the shooting, but he said it's unlikely that Kenneth French initiated a verbal confrontation. His cousin's mental condition had declined in recent years, and he no longer spoke.

"It could have been that he bumped into somebody but couldn't communicate the fact that he was sorry," Shureih said.

The Frenches dedicated their lives to taking care of their son, Shureih said. He described his aunt and uncle as "the sweetest people in the world."

In a Facebook post on Sunday morning, Shureih shared a photo of Kenneth French and his parents at Universal Studios.

"Do they look intimidating to you? Did he really have to shoot them all?" Shureih wrote. "I'm posting this picture because the stories on social media have made them out to be the suspects, and the off duty cop the victim."

Kenneth French could drive and cook himself breakfast and sometimes held down part-time jobs, but was unable to live on his own, Shureih said. He was unsure of Kenneth French's exact disability.

Immediately after the shooting, police said that two men were in an argument when one pulled out a weapon and fatally shot the other. They said they had detained the shooter inside the store and then taken him to a hospital after he said he was injured.

Later, however, police said no one was in custody and that there had not been an arrest in the case.

Shureih said the family planned to hire a lawyer to advocate on their behalf.

"We need witnesses to come forward. We need to know the shooter's name. We need to get the surveillance tape from Costco," Shureih said. "These are things we need to pursue to make sure justice is done."
laura.newberry@latimes.com | Twitter: @LauraMNewberry

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Costco shooting: Man killed by off-duty officer had an intellectual disability, cousin says

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The 32-year-old man shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in a Costco store on Friday night in Corona was nonverbal and had an intellectual disability, according to a family member. Kenneth French of Riverside lived with his parents and had the mental capacity of a teenager, said his cousin, Rick Shureih, in a phone interview with the Los Angeles Times on Sunday night.

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Additionally, the “system” uses the label disability to cover the ideology that it is not infact the student who should take the blame for acting out but instead institutions who are built to oppress them

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Students who are labeled “chronically aggressive” where it is inferred by many that race and disability is a social construct, many of the students who are given this label falls under the umbrella of being black and brown. It is important to ask ourselves as educators, do these students have mental disability and behavioral problems or are they purposely being stigmatized by society to create oppression that will emanate into adulthood.

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It will be my job as an educator to provide fundamental knowledge that my students will apply. I worry, about the impact will I make on their educational development.

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Lisa Delpit spoke very powerfully about the culture of power and the implications it may have on minorities or low income students, she noted that “the rules of the culture of power are a reflection of the rules of the culture of those who have power” (Delpit, 1988, p. 4).

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As a student and an educator, it is heartbreaking to see individuals with needs being neglected, particularly because helping others is the passion that drove me into this program.

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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BEING A PRODUCT OF A SOCIETY THAT DOES NOT PROVIDE THE BASIC RESOURCES NEEDED TO  DO MORE THAN MERELY SURVIVING BUT TO THRIVE AND PROGRESS WILL CONTINUE TO HINDER THE MENTAL AND SOCIO ECONOMICAL GOETH OF FUTHER GENERATIONS

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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DO THESE STUDENTS HAVE MENTAL DISABILITY OR OR BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS OR ARE THEY PURPOSELY BEING STIGMATIZES BY SOCIETY TO CREATE OPPRESSION THAT WILL EMANATE INTO ADULTHOOD

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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IN BOTH SETTINGS BLACKS AND LATINO CHILDREN ARE ALREADY LABELED DANGER TO SOCIETY -SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE?

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLD, BROKEN HOME
ONE PARENT ALREADY INSTITUTIONALIZED. OTHER PARENT ABSENT WORKING, NO HOME ATTENTION. -CYCLE- BEGAN OPPRESSION OF MINORITIES - WAR ON DRUGS-RACISM. FIX THE SYSTEM

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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Reconceptualizing School Violence by Using Critical Race Theory and Disability Studies

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Do these preventative measures benefit urban or soley surbubs.

Schools In Urban Communities Are Deemed Ghetto And Schools In Suburbia Are “Safe Havens” - Now It’s An Epidemic

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Learning Disabled  label signified different outcomes for different people. Additionally, there are beneficial classroom environments for white middle class students because they were supplied with various support.b However, the same diagnosis was given to black and brown students and they were usually placed in segregated and restrictive schools.

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"The queer young women of color with disabilities in this study faced an educational context wherein they were ignored in the curricula, unsupported in the classroom, and harassed in the halls." pg. 95

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DISABILITY ISNT ALWAYS VISIBLE