Trainee officer shoots unarmed college football player - The Courier
DALLAS (AP) — An unarmed college football player was shot dead at a suburban Dallas car dealership by a trainee police officer during a middle-of-the-night burglary call. The death of 19-year-old Christian Taylor has raised some of the same questions as other recent police shootings involving unarmed suspects. Police were contacted by a company that manages security cameras at Classic Buick GMC in Arlington at about 1 a. m. Friday. Paul Rodriguez, an Arlington police spokesman, told The Associated Press that police were advised that someone had driven a car onto the lot, started to damage another car, then drove his own vehicle into the glass front of the showroom. Officer Brad Miller and another officer entered the dealership and approached the subject as other officers set a perimeter around the dealership, Rodriguez said. According to a police statement, an “altercation” of some kind ensued and Miller shot Taylor. Miller, 49, joined Arlington’s police department in September. Although he had completed the police academy and was a fully licensed officer, he was still completing a 16-week field training program required of new officers, Rodriguez said. His training officer was with him at the time of the shooting, Rodriguez said. Source: thecourier.com
