ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- A Texas police chief promised
transparency as the FBI joined the investigation into the death of a
Texas college football player who was fatally shot by an officer during a
burglary call at a car dealership.
During a
news conference Saturday night, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said
the FBI's Dallas field office has been asked to help investigate the
death early Friday of Christian Taylor, a 19-year-old African-American
who was unarmed when shot by a white police officer. Johnson stressed
the move "in no way diminishes my confidence" in local officers to
conduct the investigation.
Taylor's death came
two days before the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown,
an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police
officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's death galvanized the "Black Lives
Matter" movement and sparked protests that at times turned violent.
Johnson
mentioned the current climate during the news conference, noting that
"our nation has been wrestling with the topics of social injustice,
inequities, racism and police misconduct" and that his department would
"pledge to act in a transparent manner."
Arlington
officer Brad Miller has been placed on administrative leave. Police say
the officer, who joined Arlington police last year and was still
completing his department field training, had never before fired his
weapon in the line of duty.
Johnson said
Miller and another officer found Taylor "freely roaming" inside the
dealership's showroom when they arrived, sometime after 1 a.m. Friday.
The
officers told Taylor to surrender and lie down on the ground, but he
refused, the chief said. They saw him trying to escape the showroom and
pursued him.
The incident ended with Miller
shooting his service weapon four times at Taylor, hitting him at least
twice, according to Johnson. The officer with Miller - his field
training officer, a nearly two-decade veteran - used his Taser, but not a
gun.
Johnson repeatedly refused to describe
the confrontation or say how close Taylor got to either officer before
Miller opened fire.
Police had gone to the
Classic Buick GMC in Arlington, about 10 miles west of Dallas, after
being contacted by a company that manages security cameras at for the
car dealership. Police were advised that someone had driven a car onto
the lot, started to damage another car, then drove his own vehicle into
the glass front of the showroom. Johnson said Taylor appeared to have
kicked out the windshield of a car.
Some of
the nationwide criticism of police use of force in the last year has
happened online, and Taylor's death resonated on social media, with some
posts questioning the official account and calling for video to be
released.
Police say they are investigating
Taylor's death both as a possible criminal case and to determine whether
department rules were broken.
Taylor
graduated last year from Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington and
was listed on Angelo State's roster as a 5-foot-9, 180-pound defensive
back.
1 comment:
Texas is hostile to the people they are supposed to be working for.
The governed did not consent to be governed the way Texas governs them.
Everything is a crime in Texas and lots of money is made accusing people of anything to run them through the 'cattle branding' system where they fingerprint and take a photo and lay claim to the body of the one accused and grabbed without warrant from the street and thrown into the private company of jail.
Just because they have security, and medical personnel, and food, and clothing, and bedding, when they take you there, they presume they have provided consideration for their offer of accusing you of anything including being in commerce where not wearing a seat belt can get you killed like Sandra Bland.
People don't like Jade Helm, it has to be in place to remove these people. There are so many corrupt judges, the first trial is malicious and no matter what the One accused is guilty, and the second trial is appeal where the One accused may be vindicated but that's only if they know the 'rules' of that game and present it right.
Even if malfeasance is at focus, no one hears you unless you write it up in their language by their rules and then, maybe, they'll give it the benefit of the doubt. It's like turning in a spelling test of 1000 words and getting one vowel wrong and failing the entire test.
They have already tapped the social security account and being paid while you are still fighting to clear your 'good name', they have gotten paid out of the account of the name.
They are ignoring the illegals because they are 'outside the system'. Illegals have sense enough to NOT be US Citizens, because that's the first thing they Texas Government needs in order to exercise that 'consent to be governed' control over the body, and then illegals do not get Social Security Numbers, so the Texas Government cannot pilfer the account by falsely accusing illegals of crimes.
They don't want illegals there because they can't exercise control over them, so they want the rest of you to believe them when they say illegals are doing all the killing and stuff so you'll demand they leave, then they can say, 'hey those who consent to what we do to them, want us to make those we can't do anything with to leave'.
You have no idea what you are asking for, and when you get it, you get angrier.
Maybe if you knew how you were being manipulated, maybe if you knew what they show you is NEVER the truth, they do not know how to tell the truth that's why they have licenses so they can lie and do things under the license.
If you knew, would you do something different?
People want a government, when the power of the government comes from the people.
How is that working? I need a government to tell me to wear a seat belt? I have the power to tell me to wear a seat belt, don't I? Really, why do you have to have an equal tell you what you can and cannot do?
Somehow this post may not make it, and who owns the site controls the site's content.
I know, and that doesn't stop me from writing this and bringing focus to it.
How many are still stuck into the 'we got to elect/select' someone else.
What would happen if no one voted for anyone.
If everyone stood on their own right to not choose between the bad apple or the rotten apple, they'd find more freedom from not selecting from what is offered to them from those that want to control them.
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