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[h=4]Video shows teen jumping on car before police arrived[/h]ARLINGTON, Texas — Shortly before a police-officer-in-training fired on a college football player who drove his SUV through a car dealership's glass doors, the teen wandered around the lot trying to open

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Surveillance video shows what happened shortly before a police-officer-in-training fatally shot an unarmed college football player who drove his SUV through a car dealership in Arlington, Texas. VPC


Surveillance video on the lot of a car dealership shows Christian Taylor, 19, of Arlington, Texas, jumping on vehicles Aug. 7, 2015, before officers arrived. One officer-in-training shot and killed him.(Photo: Stealth Monitoring)


ARLINGTON, Texas — Shortly before a police-officer-in-training fired on a college football player who drove his SUV through a car dealership's glass doors, the teen wandered around the lot trying to open locked doors and kicking out one vehicle's windshield, according to surveillance video made available for review Saturday.
Christian Taylor, 19, of Arlington, Texas, died early Friday at Classic Buick GMC dealership on an Interstate 20 service road about 10 miles west of Dallas when Officer Brad Miller, 49, hired in September and in the middle of 16 weeks of supervised field training, fired his weapon four times, Arlington police Chief Will Johnson said. The other officer with Miller used his Taser but not his gun.
The officers had told Taylor to surrender and lie down on the ground, but he refused, the chief said. They saw him trying to escape the showroom and pursued him.
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Johnson repeatedly refused to describe the confrontation or say how close Taylor was to either officer before Miller opened fire.
Taylor's body had gunshot wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office. The office has not yet released initial findings on toxicology, and it is not yet known if Taylor was under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Christian Taylor, 19, of Arlington, Texas, was killed Aug. 7, 2015, by a white police officer.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Angelo State University)

The teen, who was black and a defensive back on the football team at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, was unarmed, authorities learned later. He was planning to return to school Sunday for football practice.
Miller, who is white, never had fired his weapon previously in the line of duty. He was placed on administrative leave during separate criminal and administrative investigations, and Saturday the police chief said the FBI would assist in the probes.
"We will demand of ourselves a thorough and transparent organization of what took place," said Sgt. Paul Rodriguez, an Arlington police spokesman.
Taylor's death came two days before the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's death galvanized the "Black Lives Matter" movement and sparked protests that at times turned violent.
Johnson mentioned the current climate during a Saturday news conference, noting that "our nation has been wrestling with the topics of social injustice, inequities, racism and police misconduct" and that his department would "pledge to act in a transparent manner."
Officers had gone to the car dealer at the request of Stealth Monitoring of Addison, Texas, a company that manages the security cameras on the lots outside the car showroom. The company allowed WFAA-TV to review its footage because of speculation that has been mounting online.
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Within hours of Taylor's death, his name began trending on Twitter, according to the social analytics site Topsy. In the past day and a half, the hashtag #ChristianTaylor has been used more than 200,000 times.
• At 12:52 a.m. CT Friday, the video shows Taylor pulling up to the locked gate of the dealership in a gray sport-utility vehicle. Taylor, who is wearing sunglasses, got out of the vehicle, climbed over the gate and sat on top of it before walking onto the car lot.

Officer Brad Miller, 49, of the Arlington (Texas) Police Department is under investigation for shooting an unarmed black teen as he and other officers answered a burglary call.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Arlington (Texas) Police Department)

He walked up to a red SUV and tried the door. Then he was seen running and walking through the lot.
• At 1:02 a.m., he walked up to a silver truck and tried to open that door.
Afterward, he walked over to a silver Mustang. He tried to break the driver's-side door with his fist but didn't succeed.
Taylor climbed on top of the car. He stomped on the windshield then kicked it in.
The teen pulled out a portion of the glass, appearing to cut his hand.
By now, the monitoring company had called police and loudspeakers at the car lot were blaring, "Warning, warning."
Taylor continued to jump on the windshield. He sat on top of the car's hood, then jumped on the hood and windshield.
• At 1:07 a.m., he pulled up the windshield, yanked out the Mustang's rear-view mirror and tossed it aside. He climbed backward through the broken window and got in the car, staying briefly before getting out and walking away
• At 1:11 a.m., Taylor walked back to his SUV.
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• At 1:13 a.m., Taylor drove through the locked gate and crashed into the front of the showroom.
• At 1:16 a.m., Arlington police arrived. The first officer walked up and other officers followed.
What happened inside wasn't visible to the cameras. But an altercation of some kind ensued and Miller shot Taylor, according to police.
• At 1:30 a.m., an ambulance pulled up in front of the dealership.
Taylor had not been convicted of any crimes previously, according to court records. He was sentenced to six months probation in December on a charge of possession of a controlled substance stemming from a September 2013 traffic stop where he had 11 hydrocodone tablets not prescribed to him.
Because he was not arrested again during his probation, he successfully completed the program in June and his case was dismissed July 14.
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