More than a thousand mourn Texas teen fatally shot by officer
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.
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)you commit crimes.
Why wasn't he shot before he could illegally shoot that kid?
Why is the training officer still working there?
cstanleytech
(26,347 posts)and justify the shooting, unless one of those supposed lives he saved was a convertible
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)corporations are people my friend.
trillion
(1,859 posts)PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)Now he's dead.