Video Shows Christian Taylor at vehicle Lot

Taylor, who was black, was shot by a white police officer two days earlier than the anniversary of the capturing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an unarmed, black 18-year-old whose dying galvanized the “Black Lives Matter” motion and sparked protests that at occasions turned violent. The responding officers were also not wearing body cameras, so the actual shooting was not recording, though it is not clear whether or not the dealership had a working camera surveying the showroom.

Brad Miller, the officer involved in the shooting, has since been placed on administrative leave, according to Fox News. Officers are shown walking onto the dealership’s parking lot a few moments later. “They say he’s burglarizing the place by running up in there?”

The 11 a.m. Sunday service at Koinonia Christian Church in Arlington was filled to capacity in part, the senior pastor said, because some 100 classmates of a teen fatally wounded last week by an Arlington police officer attended.

Johnson said he is in touch with the Taylor family.

He said he had invited Thomas M Class snr, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas division, to participate.

During a Saturday night news conference, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said the FBI’s Dallas field office had been asked to help investigate the death.

Officer Miller and his supervising officer arrived to the dealership after reports of a possible burglary.

The case resonated on social media, with posts questioning the official account that Taylor was committing a robbery and asking why there was no video of the altercation.

Americans’ confidence in police is indeed at its lowest since 1993, in the aftermath of the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers and the subsequent 1993 trial of those officers, according to a June Gallup poll. Police got the call from a security company monitoring the auto dealership property and found 19-year-old Christian Taylor inside.

Angelo State University director of communications Becky Brackin said the school had no details on the incident, “but our condolences go out to his family and friends”, Brackin said.

“The facts available today do not answer all questions or alleviate all concerns”, Johnson said.

He was killed by a rookie cop in his late 40s who joined the Arlington police force approximately one month after Brown was killed by officer Darren Wilson. “At this time, investigators have not located any video capturing the shooting”. Miller had no previous police experience and this was the first time he fired his weapon at a person while on duty.

He was a good man and a talented football player, Taylor’s great-uncle Clyde Fuller told the Star-Tribune.

Taylor’s father Adrian Miller said while it appears his son may have been n the process of committing a crime, he shouldn’t have had to die.