Death of Christian Taylor will not be investigated by FBI

The footage shows him walking around the dealership, but does not show the actual encounter with officers.

Arlington police spokesperson Paul Rodriguez said in a statement issued later on the day of Taylor’s killing, “The Arlington Police Department is saddened by this loss of life and will provide the community a clear and transparent investigation”.

People will also have the chance to voice their opinion about the Arlington Police Department to a group reviewing its standards. At some point during the struggle, an officer shot Taylor.

The security company told Taylor over loudspeakers that he needed to leave, and that police were on their way.

Nine minutes after 1 a.m., Taylor leaves the Mustang, trips over the curb and appears to go toward the showroom.

The brother of a Texas college football player fatally shot by a police officer says he’s not angry at police but does think they could have handled the confrontation differently.

In response to an audio tape that authorities say “grossly misrepresents” the officer-involved shooting that ended with the death of a 19-year-old man, Arlington police have released the full recording of the communication between officers and dispatchers.

Mr Taylor’s cousin, 16-year-old Jaylon McCray, joined about 60 people with Dallas-based Mothers Against Police Brutality at Arlington police headquarters for Monday night’s vigil, the first of several planned this week, the Associated Press said.

Taylor was shot after he drove his auto through the gate, and then the front door, of the Classic Arlington vehicle dealership.

“It’s pretty much their story against somebody who’s not here anymore”, the teen’s brother Joshua Taylor, 23, said. “I know he wouldn’t attack any officer or anybody in authority at all, or attack anybody for that matter”. Richard said the police department would still be conducting the investigation as it would have.

Arlington police Lt. Christopher Cook said the department can’t yet offer details on the confrontation between 19-year-old Christian Taylor and a police trainee because investigators haven’t completed all of their interviews.

Arlington police officer Brad Miller, 49, shot Taylor. They noticed him making an attempt to flee the showroom and pursued him. The other officer with Miller used his Taser, but not his gun.

Surveillance video recorded just before the shooting shows the Angelo State University student exhibiting odd, erratic behavior. David Lancaster, general manager at Classic Buick GMC, said the showroom has an alarm system but no video surveillance. Miller had no police experience before joining the Arlington police force.

In a recording of radio traffic of the incident, someone can be heard saying, “We’ve got shots fired”, about two minutes after officers say they’ve spotted a man inside the building.

Taylor’s death was ruled a homicide.

The capturing comes amid elevated scrutiny nationwide of police use of drive, notably in instances involving black suspects.

Officer Brad Miller and another officer entered the dealership and approached the subject as other officers set a perimeter around the dealership, Rodriguez said.

“Chief Johnson has made a good start as Arlington finds itself in the spotlight in the national debate over police tactics”, Mondays editorial reads.

There were no arrests during the demonstration.

Taylor was a sophomore at Angelo State University in San Angelo, where he played on the football team as a defensive back.

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

“You know, it could have been too much drinking, he could have been wrong place at the wrong time, he could have gotten something and he didn’t know what he was getting”, Adrian Taylor said.

His father said, “What he’d done, ain’t no way right”.

“Christian in his right state of mind would never do the things he did in that video”, Adegbesan said.