Posted on 08/25/2014 5:25:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While national news media continue to focus on race in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, they apparently don’t think a similar case in Utah with the races reversed is that newsworthy.
Police in Salt Lake City are continuing their probe into an Aug. 11 shooting outside a 7-Eleven convenience store, when a black police officer, whom local media are referring to as “not white,” shot and killed 20-year-old Dillon Taylor, who was unarmed at the time, according to his supporters.
Police Chief Chris Burbank said the entire incident was captured on the body camera of the officer who shot Taylor.
“You will see on camera … the actions of everyone involved, including up to the point where our officer utilizes deadly force and his response thereafter,” Burbank told reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
maybe Obama will send his aides there too, and the media will be on this right away
massive sarc
According to the report:
Dillon Taylor (the victim) “didn’t resist. He didn’t hit the cop. He didn’t try to flee and yet he was shot dead.”
According to the report:
Dillon Taylor (the victim) “didn’t resist. He didn’t hit the cop. He didn’t try to flee and yet he was shot dead.”
BUMP!
If this is raised in the national media then people who report this will be called a racist.
The hypocrisy, and double standards today is disgusting
Were their riots that weren’t reported?
I didn’t think so.
This is deliberate. They want to set people against one another.
Must have done something wrong. Everyone knows the cops don't make mistakes.
He was a good boy, everyone liked him, he was just
turning his life around and discovered rap and then
he became a police man.
Note: the preceeding statement was pure sarcasm and
as with all these episodes we must wait for the truth
of what actually happened to come out.
Did the white house send a representative to the funeral
No Justice!!! No Peace!!!!
That is Obama’s job, for some.
He has to be the most divisive operator of all time! He is doing his best to keep them impoverished, unemployed and pissed off as possible.
In the meanwhile, he wants all kinds of immigrants to come in and do the work that Americans won’t. With black unemployment up over 100% of that of the white, that is an award winning idea!
Our police forces in this country desperately need a non-lethal alternative to firearms that is more reliable than a taser. The black radicals are pushing for a rule that a non-black officer is never allowed to use deadly force against a black suspect. Under this political environment, it simply won’t make any sense for a white police officer to patrol in an area where blacks live or frequent. Maybe they should just refuse to respond to calls for help in those areas based on the “Al Sharpton rule”.
Here’s the story AS TOLD BY THE BROTHER of the victim:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58287556-78/taylor-lake-police-salt.html.csp
“We’re walking out of the 7-Eleven with a drink, when the cops show up and start harassing us with guns,” Jerrail Taylor told The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday night. South Salt Lake police, who are investigating the shooting, said Salt Lake City police were answering a 911 call reporting a man there was waving a handgun; Dillon Taylor purportedly matched the description of the armed man.
Dillon Taylor was wearing headphones and didn’t respond to the three officers until they surrounded him, Jerrail Taylor said.
“He couldn’t hear them, so he just kept walking. Then ... they had guns pointed at his face. That’s when he turned off the music,” he said. “I saw them point guns at my brother’s face, and I knew what was going to happen.”
One officer told Dillon Taylor to get on the ground, while another told him to put his hands on his head.
“He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him,” Jerrail Taylor said.
Witnesses said they heard two shots. Taylor died at the scene; his brother and cousin were detained for questioning.
retalition?
At the time of Taylor’s shooting, court documents show he had a $25,000 bench warrant for a probation violation in connection with felony robbery and obstructing justice convictions. But Marissa Martinez, whose sister used to date Taylor, said Taylor had turned over a new leaf.
“He was trying to do better for himself. And this is what happens to him?” Martinez said. “It was really heartbreaking.”
That’s what they always say.
He was turning over a new leaf. He was changing his ways.
No more life of crime etc...
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