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panader0

(25,816 posts)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 02:10 PM Aug 2015

Another unarmed black teen shot dead

19-Year-Old Unarmed College Student Fatally Shot by Texas Police

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/19-year-old-unarmed-college-student-fatally-shot-by-texas-police/ar-BBluOTK?ocid=AARDHP


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Arlington, Texas police fatally shot a 19-year-old college student that they claim broke into a car dealership early Friday morning but some members of the dead man's family find the police version of the story hard to believe.

According to the Star-Telegram, around 1 a.m. police were notified of a burglary in progress at a GMC Classic Buick dealership. Police claim that a security company dialed in emergency help after they witnessed the suspect using his car to crash through the dealership's showroom window.

“The officers went and confronted him. There was an altercation. An officer discharged his weapon and struck the suspect,” Rodriguez told the Star-Telegram.

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Another unarmed black teen shot dead (Original Post) panader0 Aug 2015 OP
Palin shoots wolves from a helicopter, Cheney shoots farmed, disabled, and nearly flightless valerief Aug 2015 #1
His family claims that he would never crash a car into the dealership. panader0 Aug 2015 #2
Stealing things is no reason to kill someone. It just isn't. valerief Aug 2015 #4
If this is true - what the 840high Aug 2015 #3
Read in the Dallas Morning News dem in texas Aug 2015 #5

valerief

(53,235 posts)
1. Palin shoots wolves from a helicopter, Cheney shoots farmed, disabled, and nearly flightless
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 02:12 PM
Aug 2015

quail, and U.S. police shoot anyone they want whenever they want.

Cuz guns. America. Freedumb.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
4. Stealing things is no reason to kill someone. It just isn't.
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 02:19 PM
Aug 2015

But football players have been known to commit their share of crimes, **cough**, O.J., **cough**.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
5. Read in the Dallas Morning News
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 02:21 PM
Aug 2015

Doesn't make sense that he'd crash into the glass windows of a car show room. What was he going to do? After the big crash, hunt around to find the keys to the new cars on display? Then drive out in a new car, leaving his old one there and all before the cops arrived. When I read about it, the first thought occurred to me, sounds like the kid was high on drugs. And reading further down in the article, the DMN stated that he had a prior arrest for drug possession which was adjudicated.

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