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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 attorney for a Texas police officer fired after fatally shooting an unarmed college football player during a suspected burglary at a vehicle dealership is defending his client’s actions and insulting those of the police chief.

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...

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

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...

The statement said police approached the suspect and a struggle ensued.

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

NBCDFW 5 News The security footage appears to show Taylor jumping up and down on a windshield in the dealership’s lot after trespassing into the Classic GMC Buick at around 1 a.m. A Taser was also used, but the sequence of events is still not known.