More than a thousand mourn Texas teen fatally shot by officer

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

ARLINGTON Texas (Reuters) - More than 1,000 mourners attended a funeral on Saturday for Christian Taylor, an unarmed 19-year-old African American fatally shot by a white officer in Texas in an incident that raised fresh attention of police treatment of racial minorities.

Teammates from Angelo State University where Taylor played football and friends remembered him at a church in the Dallas-area city of Arlington as a person full of energy who had much to offer.

Former Arlington police officer Brad Miller, a 49-year-old trainee, was fired this week for what the department said was his poor judgment in events surrounding the shooting last week of Taylor, who had broken into an auto dealership and was vandalizing cars.

A lawyer for Miller said the officer was in the right and his actions saved lives.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/more-thousand-mourn-texas-teen-fatally-shot-officer-225243125.html

[jtuck004]

1. Must be good to be an Arlington police officer, knowing that when in training they will let

you commit crimes.

Why wasn't he shot before he could illegally shoot that kid?

Why is the training officer still working there?

[cstanleytech]

2. I cant believe that Millers lawyer actually tried the "saved lives" shtick to try

and justify the shooting, unless one of those supposed lives he saved was a convertible

[A Simple Game]

3. That car dealership was probably incorporated, and as we all know,

corporations are people my friend.

[trillion]

4. "Former Arlington police officer Brad Miller, a 49-year-old trainee"

[PatrickforO]

5. The kid was probably vandalizing cars because he had no hope of ever affording one.

Now he's dead.