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Salt Lake [non-white] cop cleared in shooting of unarmed white man [no looting or arson]
wreg.com ^ | November 25, 2014 | George Brown

Posted on 12/17/2014 7:18:33 PM PST by grundle

The decision of a St. Louis grand jury to not indict a police officer there of shooting and killing an unarmed man has raised new interest in an officer involved fatal shooting in Salt Lake City.

Dillon Taylor, a white male, was shot and killed in August.

Officer Bron Cruz, who was described as non-white, shot Taylor once in the chest and once in the stomach after he refused to obey police.

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KEYWORDS: dillontaylor; donutwatch
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To: Gay State Conservative

He was not a scum bag. Find the story.


21 posted on 12/18/2014 2:57:35 AM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Eagles6

He did not hear the cop. He had ear buds in. He was reachung for his wallet and did not know the cop was there.


22 posted on 12/18/2014 2:59:13 AM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: mfish13

How do you know that? On the video who says “No, fool? Not being a smart ass, legitimate questions.


23 posted on 12/18/2014 5:21:36 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: kiryandil

Where can you find the testimony?


24 posted on 12/18/2014 5:22:59 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Eagles6
Search "dillon taylor" cruz deposition

Plus, the article I saw that in got the sequence of events wrong.

25 posted on 12/18/2014 7:12:09 AM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: mfish13
He was not a scum bag. Find the story.

I didn't say he was a scumbag.I was just making a general point...that point being that just as surely as there are black and brown scumbags in this country there are also white scumbags.

IRRC this was a case in which a robbery (or some other incident) had occurred in,or near,a convenience store...the cops responded...a white kid was spotted,told to put his hands up by a cop and,because he was wearing headphones,he didn't hear the command and thus failed to comply.And then things went from bad to worse.

If this is what happened then this kid may have been the victim of a tragic series of occurrences rather than having gotten what he deserved (Trayvon...Gentle Giant) or having been the victim of police misconduct.

26 posted on 12/18/2014 7:23:24 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Gay State Conservative; mfish13
.the cops responded...a white kid was spotted,told to put his hands up by a cop and,because he was wearing headphones,he didn't hear the command and thus failed to comply.

This appears to be what happened.

Of course, the cop told the kid's BACK to put his hands up. When the kid started turning to face the yelling cop, he fished around his beltline, and got shot 3-4 seconds after he started turning.

BTW - the kid had been drinking, and was at 0.18 BAC. They trot you off to the pokey at 0.08 BAC, and your motor skills supposedly start deteriorating after 0.08 BAC...

All in all, the kid had 20 seconds to live once the cop showed up, and the cop had to run around a couple of cars to catch up with him, because he was bebopping away from the policeman.

The DA is scum.

27 posted on 12/18/2014 12:34:35 PM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: kiryandil

Thanks


28 posted on 12/19/2014 10:14:14 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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