U.S. Texas Officer Fired Over Fatal Shooting of Football Player

[Historic NY]

Source: ABC News

The police chief in the Dallas suburb of Arlington says an officer who's been fired over the fatal shooting of an unarmed Texas college football player should not have approached the 19-year-old burglary suspect alone.

Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson on Tuesday said he had fired officer Brad Miller over the shooting of Christian Taylor. Johnson says he's troubled by some of the actions Miller took while responding to a reported burglary at a car dealership early Friday morning.

Johnson said Miller shot Taylor when Taylor began to advance toward the officer. But he said there was no physical contact between the officer and Taylor before Taylor was shot.

Johnson said it will be up to a grand jury to decide whether Miller should be charged criminally

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-athletes-death-police-talk-shooting-33023710

[KamaAina]

1. And to think, some here thought my post on this yesterday was poutrage.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027063411

Sucks to be them!

[Historic NY]

2. Whatever the reason for the firing and I think its because he didn't pass probation...

yet they needs to CYA.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Good. The kid was behaving criminally, but that should't be a death sentence.

I don't know if he was high, but he was acting pretty weird. Cops shoot strange-acting weird people frequently. It seems like lethal force is too often the first resort.

[SoapBox]

4. And while people are being fired...

We The People need to fire that guy that has the "security" business in MN, that goes around lecturing cops to just shoot and shoot quickly! And then cities bring him at $1000 per hour to be defense for cops in court.

He needs to be banned.

[YOHABLO]

5. Why is this guy referred to as a college football player and not a student?

[valerief]

6. Are there any tee shirts being sold anywhere that read either

"I committed murder and all I got was this lousy tee shirt and a paid vacation."
or
"I committed murder and lost my job. Please support my GoFundMe page."
or
"I committed murder and had a laugh with the other cops."

Cuz that's all it seems happens to killer cops.