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First-year Arlington officer Brad Miller and another officer discovered Taylor “freely roaming” in the dealer’s showroom after 1 a.m. Friday, Johnson told reporters.
Police said the officer had never before fired his weapon in the line of duty. A security company called 911 monitored the break-in on surveillance cameras and reported a possible burglary in progress.
Newly released surveillance video shows an Arlington teen running around a auto dealership and jumping on cars in the moments before he was shot and killed by an officer. “At this time, investigators have not located any video capturing the shooting”. Miller, who joined the department in September 2014, allegedly shot and killed the unarmed black teenager during the scuffle. The officer with Miller his field training officer, a almost two-decade veteran used his Taser, but not a gun. “Johnson repeatedly refused to describe the confrontation or say how close Taylor was to either officer before Miller opened fire”, notes local ABC affiliate WFAA-TV.
Officer Miller is on administrative leave.
A police report indicated the case resulted from a traffic stop that turned up 11 hydrocodone tablets Taylor had without a prescription for the painkiller, according to the newspaper. 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. The other officer reportedly tased him. He loved the coaches, loved the program.
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Taylor had graduated Mansfield Summit High School in the suburb west of Dallas previous year.
Family tells FOX4 that Taylor was a good kid with a bright future in football.
Taylor has no convictions but was sentenced to six months of probation in December on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, according to the Star-Telegram. “I don’t see him stealing no vehicle or nothing like that”.
Taylor was shot in his chest, neck and abdomen by Miller. Police said they were notified of an alleged burglary attempt and that a jeep had driven onto the showroom floor. “Nuh-uh. Something doesn’t sound right”.
Adrian Taylor can’t imagine what prompted his son, Christian James Taylor, 19, to smash his SUV into this vehicle dealership early Friday morning. “It makes you do some self-analyzing”. His training officer was with him at the time of the shooting, Rodriguez said.
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“It’s changed the landscape for policing, it’s changed the landscape for criminal justice, and it’s changed the landscape for public officials, who can’t treat this as a crisis to get through, but who have to now grapple with this and pay serious attention to it”, she said.
