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Balch Springs officer terminated after shooting and killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards
http://www.wfaa.com ^ | 2 May 2017 | unknown

Posted on 05/02/2017 6:35:05 PM PDT by BackRoads775

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To: topher

You are correct. All of that was clear in the NYT piece posted here last night.

The cop that did the shooting was not forthcoming with the truth and looks like he could be in big trouble in Dallas County.

From all indications, it’s a bad shoot, a very bad shoot and we have a 15 year old dead kid and devastated families.


21 posted on 05/02/2017 11:10:26 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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The fired police officer must first deal with the DA and a Grand Jury before he can go elsewhere.

As far as I am concerned, the Texas state AG should be in the loop on this. But I don't think the Tarrant County DA is going to drop the ball on this.

There was video of this that the police chief reviewed before he fired the police officer.

A Grand Jury will be more likely to indict now that he is a former police officer (in my opinion).

22 posted on 05/02/2017 11:14:06 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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When you shoot a kid and your story changes, it is usually bad news.

Agreed. I also worry about being that terrible a shot with a rifle. How does a rifle shot miss the driver and hit a front seat passenger at a distance so close that the vehicle was a danger to either yourself or another cop? You don't take the shot if you are in whatever condition/position the shooter was in that resulted in that bad a miss at close range. Something does not seem to add up, to put it mildly.

23 posted on 05/03/2017 5:48:19 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Grand Jury before he can go elsewhere.

This is bad news for justice. A grand jury is essentially a prosecutor's rubber stamp. If the prosecutor wants to charge someone the prosecutor shows the grand jury the evidence for that. If they want to get someone off, then the evidence is selectively presented. Grand Jury is how many cowboy cops have gotten a pass for killing someone under circumstances that would have landed an ordinary citizen peasant in jail.

24 posted on 05/03/2017 2:59:33 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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Report tonight that the police officer in the shooting (Roy Oliver) served two tours in Iraq with the US Army.

That does not excuse his actions, but maybe he has some sort of trauma that needs to be treated with those tours.

I believe he also served additional time with the US Army.

Maybe if he is tried for this that his service for his country will be taken into account.

But he should not have been serving as a police officer if he was not fit for duty...

25 posted on 05/03/2017 8:46:21 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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