Footage shows Texas football player at lot before his death
Police have said the officers told Taylor to surrender and lie down on the ground, but he refused.
For now, the family of the Angelo State University student is left to listen and watch the few pieces of evidence they have from the shooting.
Joshua Taylor insists his brother “wouldn’t attack any officer or anybody in authority”.
Taylor’s death has once again highlighted the use of deadly force by police in the wake of several high-profile police shootings across the country over the past year.
A fire department spokesman said the cause of the fire was under investigation.
New Jersey officials have released more details on a foot chase that ended with a 14-year-old boy being shot by a state police trooper and a Mercer County sheriff’s officer.
Surveillance video shows a college football star smashing his SUV into a vehicle dealership before he was fatally shot by a rookie cop. “I don’t know”.
In interviews with the Washington Post, two witnesses said that when encountered by police, the woman had a knife, which they described as relatively small.
Arlington police have said officers arriving to a burglary call early Friday found Christian Taylor roaming inside the showroom of the dealership.
Brad Miller, the rookie officer who shot Taylor, has been placed on administrative leave, as is routine procedure in such cases. When officers arrived, they did not initially see Taylor.
This photo provided by Angelo State University shows Christian Taylor.
A local police officer who was undergoing field training shot four times at Taylor, hitting him at least twice, during a burglary call at a local auto dealership.
In response to the video that Arlington police say “grossly misrepresents the facts and makes a false claim”, authorities released a 16 minute, 21 second the radio chatter between officers at the scene and dispatchers.
The officer with Miller – his field training officer, a almost two-decade veteran – used his Taser, but not a gun.
Taylor, who was black, was shot by a white police officer two days before the anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an unarmed, black 18-year-old whose death galvanized the “Black Lives Matter” movement and sparked protests that at times turned violent.
Police were contacted by a company that manages security cameras at Classic Buick GMC in Arlington at about 1 a.m. Friday. Sgt. It has not yet released any initial findings on toxicology, and Rodriguez said he wasn’t aware if police found any evidence to suggest Taylor was under the influence.
Danny Defenbaugh, the former special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI office, said the decision to bring in the FBI is one that can’t help but instill greater public confidence. Security footage shows the 19-year-old breaking into a auto in the lot and then crashing his own vehicle into the glass showroom.
His father, Adrian Taylor, said, “His relationship with God had escalated to the point where he’d talk about it so much, you’d think he was a preacher”.
Rodriguez said that the investigation would take time because “we’re really trying to focus on the process and get things right”.