US cop kills unarmed man

Texas: An unarmed Texas college football player, who was fatally shot by police did not comply with officers’ initial calls to surrender, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said on Sunday.

The CNN reported that Christian Taylor, 19, was shot multiple times during an early-morning incident at a car dealership by a rookie officer who was nearing the end of 16 weeks of field training, Johnson said.

Johnson told reporters that a security company called 911 after Taylor allegedly drove his Jeep through the front window of the dealership showroom. The company monitored Taylor on surveillance cameras and reported a possible burglary in progress. At one point, Taylor allegedly kicked out the windshield of one of the cars on the lot.

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.

Where the gunshots came in the sequence of events is unclear, Johnson said, and Miller has yet to be interviewed by investigators. Miller was not injured, but it is standard procedure to wait a few days before questioning an officer involved in a deadly shooting, he said.

“The facts do not answer all questions or alleviate all concerns,” Johnson said. He told the media that surveillance video, police radio traffic and 911 calls will be released in the next seven to 10 days, after all officers involved have talked to investigators. “If this was not justified or authorised under the law there will be consequences,” Johnson said. Taylor was black and Miller is white, and the deadly shooting came almost one year to the day after the death of Michael Brown.