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Police Account Changes in Killing of Texas 15-Year-Old
NYT ^ | 5/1/17 | LIAM STACK and CHRISTINE HAUSER

Posted on 05/01/2017 8:59:44 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

As family and friends mourned the death of a 15-year-old boy shot in the head by a police officer in a Dallas suburb over the weekend, the police chief said Monday that new evidence showed the killing did not unfold the way the authorities had originally claimed.

The Police Department in Balch Springs, Tex., said Sunday that the officer, whose name has not been released, fired on a car carrying the teenager, Jordan Edwards, a freshman at Mesquite High School in Balch Springs, because the car was reversing down a street toward the officer in an “aggressive manner.”

But Jonathan Haber, the police chief, told reporters at a news conference on Monday afternoon that video showed the opposite.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: balchsprings; donutwatch; jordanedwards
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To: TigerClaws

The Family of the 15 year old made a statement and seems they are pushing for trouble no matter what the outcome is. So yes going to get bad all over


41 posted on 05/01/2017 11:37:05 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: TigerClaws

I see. What I didn’t see is where it says a first responder was murdered and a police officer shot.


43 posted on 05/02/2017 2:07:26 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Timpanagos1

Not looking good for BSPD:

AP story:
http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/national/chief-car-driving-away-when-officer-fatally-shot-texas-teen/518251120

Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/01/balch-springs-police-shooting-department-changes-story-about-15-year-olds-death.html


44 posted on 05/02/2017 2:45:58 AM PDT by Drago
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To: TigerClaws
because I didn’t use the non-descriptive title the local media had.

So you know the rules, you know you broke the posting rules, and you still whine about it when the rule breaking post gets pulled?

Are you one of those liberaltarians that thinks the rules don't apply to them?

45 posted on 05/02/2017 5:28:30 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Timpanagos1

This is beginning to look like a bad kill. It will be interesting to see how this develops.


46 posted on 05/02/2017 7:16:14 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: RitaOK
It usually doesn't have to do with new recruits or any ting else. Most police departments have Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights[LEOBR]. For example, a police officer in Maryland gets 10 days before they have to make a statement.
47 posted on 05/02/2017 7:21:30 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Paladin2
which way time flows

Gravity TOO

48 posted on 05/02/2017 7:28:26 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: QBFimi
So a citizen using their Constitutional rights will appear as a scumbag to some overpaid unionized government employee? lol...

It's simple, just like I told ya above. No need to get wordy or kiss anyone's butt. One sentence is all it takes. This is not complex fimi.

49 posted on 05/02/2017 8:55:27 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I didn’t say that. Please reread my post.


50 posted on 05/02/2017 9:01:42 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Reno89519
several yrs ago a cop in an unmarked car parked without permission nor notification on an older guys property...under very funny circumstances, the older guy was shot dead by the cop...

the cop was still allowed to go on vacation for 9 days before he had to give an interview....not kidding...

51 posted on 05/02/2017 9:10:14 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Reno89519

The legal definition of homicide is “death at the hands of another”. Not all homicides are murder.


52 posted on 05/02/2017 9:13:50 AM PDT by Valpal1 (I am enjoying the lamentations of their girly-men on social media.)
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To: Theoria

I didn’t know that.

It would have been wiser for the DPD spokesperson to have given the media a standard statement that simply said the police department is still doing an ongoing internal investigation, because it is the established requirement in these cases.

I’m not even criticizing the delay, but to use the term “decompress” is a ridiculous picture word, of maybe beach time under an umbrella.


54 posted on 05/02/2017 9:51:50 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: JennysCool

Sure, it can. However just the fact of a car being in motion is used as the excuse to open fire. It’s like the dog-shooting fad of a couple of years ago. A lot of it is police training that makes deadly force very near to being the first option to be considered or another syndrome that was nipped after only a couple of incidents, of training for SWATs to kill everything that moves when they enter a house “for their own safety.”


55 posted on 05/02/2017 9:59:32 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: RitaOK
I don’t know, but this was not a decision made by a seasoned pro.

According to the story he's been on the force for six years.

57 posted on 05/02/2017 12:40:04 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: QBFimi; Admin Moderator

Why are the responses to this individual being censored?

Is there any reason? If so let me know and I’ll customize my points so that the easily offended and those who don’t care to read hard straight fact are not. Thanks.


58 posted on 05/02/2017 1:41:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TigerClaws
Btw, did the police chief indicate the reason they changed their stories? Moving forward and backing in reverse are two very different things.

Is there video?

FR took down the story.

Hmmm, I find if very inquisitive that this story was censored once before. I didn't know that. It's odd because several of my posts were censored here for no reason I could see. Is someone here connected to this story?

This seems a bit odd.

59 posted on 05/02/2017 1:59:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Reno89519
They wouldn’t do that for a commoner

No, they'll actually attempt to interrogate you on the spot. It's why when questioned you don't say zip, expect "I will speak to counsel prior to taking questions". That's it.

60 posted on 05/02/2017 2:03:25 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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