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“We are both losers”.

Among those mourning are football players and coaches from Angelo State University, where Taylor was to start his sophomore year on the team.

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.

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

Police have said the officers told Taylor to surrender and lie down on the ground, but he refused.

In the past 24 hours, the hashtag #ChristianTaylor has been used more than 55,000 times, according to the social analytics site Topsy.