Christian Taylor: A Football Star’s Death in the Lone Star State

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 13, 2015

Tristan Hallman, reporter for The Dallas Morning News covering crime, the police
department and the Dallas Fire-Rescue in North Texas, and Zellie Imani, activist and founder of the alternative news blog Black Culture who helps organize NJShutitdown, a group protesting police brutality on college campuses in New Jersey, discuss the shooting and consequent death of a black Angelo State University football player Christian Taylor, at the hands of Arlington, Texas police officer-in-training Brad Miller.

Miller shot and killed unarmed Taylor after the 19-year-old broke into a car dealership and according to Miller, Taylor rapidly approached him while cursing.

Here's the video @TristanHallman is describing now, of #ChristianTaylor in a car dealership moments before shot: http://t.co/2WXGrXUI84
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 13, 2015

Arlington PD fired the officer who shot #ChristianTaylor. @zellieimani: A firing doesn’t necessarily mean justice or progress has been made.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 13, 2015

Before [Ferguson], it may have taken 2 or 3 weeks for anything to develop. Now they're developing within a few days, says @zellieimani.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 13, 2015

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