Brother of athlete questions why he was killed by police

The brother of a college football player killed by police at a Texas auto dealership questioned Monday whether deadly force was needed in the confrontation, which can’t be seen on video because there were no surveillance cameras inside the showroom. The FBI has been asked to help investigate the death of Taylor, a Texas college football player, who was fatally shot by an officer during a burglary call at a auto dealership.

Arlington police have stated officers arriving to a housebreaking name early Friday discovered Christian Taylor roaming contained in the showroom of the dealership.

A group of friends, family and supporters gathered not only to call for Miller’s firing but to remember Taylor with a moment of silence and messages in chalk. This was allegedly witnessed by Miller’s training officer who described himself as now standing about four feet from Miller.

It shows that there the shooting occurred about 2 minutes after police first made contact with Taylor.

Taylor rips off a rear window and throws it away after jumping on it and breaking the safety glass.

. The bulge was later found to be from a wallet and a cell phone. The police department declined to comment.

For the first time since Taylor was killed, FOX 4 was invited inside the showroom on Monday where the shooting happened.

The victim’s father added that his son was wrong for entering the dealership, but it shouldn’t have resulted in him losing his life.

He appears to try to open some of the doors in the lot and then attempts to break the front window and windshield of another vehicle.

“Christian in his right state of mind would never do the things he did in that video”, the teen’s friend Martin Adegbesan said. Christian Taylor hadn’t indicated that he deliberate to exit later.

The video also fails to show the fatal confrontation between Taylor and Miller because the showroom has no interior surveillance cameras.

“It is just about their story towards anyone who’s not right here anymore”, he stated. “It’s kind of hard to I guess justify or clarify, but at the end of the day I know my brother. I do know he would not assault any officer or anyone in authority in any respect, or assault anyone for that matter”.

In a YouTube posting, the department directly confronted rumors that they said “grossly misrepresents the facts and makes a false claim that Mr. Christian Taylor was shot by police in less than one second after APD officers made contact with him”.

He was undergoing field training and assigned to a more senior officer, though he was a licensed police officer authorized to carry a weapon.

Miller and his training officer then tried to arrest him.

Meantime, the Arlington Police Department released new audio to combat what it says is misinformation spreading online. Christopher Cook said. “This incident has received significant local and national attention”.

The recordings show that almost two minutes elapsed between the time an officer spotted Taylor, 19, inside the building and when an officer is heard saying over the radio, “We got shots fired”.

Officer Miller joined the Arlington police department last year and was placed on paid administrative leave.

The FBI has “full confidence in the ability of the Arlington Police Department and Tarrant County district attorney’s office to conduct a thorough investigation of this matter”, FBI public affairs specialist Allison Mahan said in a prepared statement.

Police say they’re investigating Taylor’s dying as a potential felony case and to find out whether or not division guidelines have been damaged.

Smith stated Taylor was “charismatic”, “even-headed” and had been passionately recruiting his buddies to attend church.

“His relationship with God had escalated to the point where he’d talk about it so much, you’d think he was a preacher”, Adrian Taylor said.

Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams said in a statement that the racial dynamics of police incidents around the country have driven a wedge between community groups.