Dealership video shows Christian Taylor before officer shot him - CNN.com
Shot dead at 19. His father summed it up, saying that his son committed a wrong but he didn't deserve to die, and police should be trained to take down an unarmed youth without deadly force.
Christian was a good kid, only 19, and made a big mistake. But he didn't deserve to have police violently take away his life.
This is no Michael Brown case. Two officers against a 5 foot 9 180 pound college athlete. No way in hell this should have ended in the kid's death.
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
Did you even bother to read your RACE BAITING article?
Footage released by a security company after the incident shows a man described as Taylor wandering around the dealership lot.
In the video, which has been edited, he kicks out the windshield of a car on the lot. Officers are shown walking onto the dealership's parking lot a few moments later.
911 call
A security company called 911 about 1 a.m. Friday after Taylor allegedly drove his SUV through the front window of the dealership showroom, Johnson said.
The company monitored Taylor on surveillance cameras and reported a possible burglary in progress.
When officers arrived, Taylor was inside. They yelled at him from the other side of the glass to get on the ground but he ran away and tried to open a locked glass door, Johnson said.
Brad Miller, 49, and his training officer, a 19-year veteran, went inside to arrest Taylor. There was a confrontation in which Miller fired four times and the other officer used a Taser, the chief said.
More questions
The sequence of events and gunshots is unclear. Miller was not injured and has not been interviewed, but it is standard procedure to wait a few days before questioning an officer involved in a deadly shooting, the chief said....
But let's start another overreaction so that the Anarchist Mob has an excuse to burn down another town.
It is not an overreaction to bring this to light. I don't condone angry mobs, destruction, and looting. The main point of this thread is to show that those who interrupted the Sanders rally are talking about something very real ... because here's another black man killed by cops apparently without justification.
I agree that any action should wait until we get all the facts and details, but it is not too early to bring this latest event into the Black Lives Matter conversation.