A Texas Pig Fatally Shoots A Black 15yo Jordan Edwards.. Update:Killer Pig gets charged w/ murder...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/dallas-police-teen-shooting.html
Texas Police Shoot and ? Student, 15

By CHRISTINE HAUSERMAY 1, 2017

Investigators in a Dallas suburb on Monday were examining body camera footage to piece together the events leading up to an officer’s fatal shooting of a 15-year-old high school student over the weekend, a spokesman said.

Jordan Edwards, a freshman at Mesquite High School in Balch Springs, was shot while a passenger in a vehicle on Saturday night, police and school officials said.

According to a police statement, officers were responding to a 911 call reporting drunken young people when they heard gunfire from an “unknown altercation,” and then a car backed down the street toward them in an “aggressive manner.”

The statement said an officer opened fire, striking a front seat passenger, who died from his injuries at a hospital.

“We still don’t have all the facts,” Officer Pedro Gonzalez, a spokesman for the Balch Springs Police Department, said in a brief telephone interview.

He said body camera footage from officers who were at the shooting was being examined by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department and police department investigators. He declined to answer further questions but said more information was likely to be released on Monday as officers were given a chance to “decompress” and be interviewed.

The police did not immediately release the child’s name in its statement, published on Sunday and sent by email on Monday. But the victim was identified by friends and family in local media reports.

A Dallas County Medical Examiner’s report obtained on Monday ruled the death a homicide caused by a “rifle wound” to the head.

On Monday, the Mesquite Independent School District released a photograph of Jordan, who was in the ninth grade. “He was a good student who was very well liked by his teachers, coaches and his fellow students,” according to the district. “The entire district — especially the staff and students of Mesquite High School — are mourning this terrible loss.”

Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Edwards family, told a local television station that there was no aggression from the vehicle and none of the occupants were armed. “They were simply leaving a party where they believed danger was, so I can’t wrap my mind around why an officer decided to shoot into the car,” said Mr. Merritt, according to WFAA.


He did not immediately return a telephone call on Monday.

The shooting has unnerved Balch Springs, a city of about 23,000 people that lies about 15 miles east of downtown Dallas. On Sunday, coaches and community members showed up at a news conference demanding answers from the authorities and expressing frustration over a lack of information, WFAA reported.

“Great kid. Awesome parents. He was not a thug. This shouldn’t happen to him,” said Chris Cano, whose son played football with Jordan, according to the station.

The first day of spring football practice at Mesquite High School was canceled on Monday because Jordan, all 150 pounds and nearly six-feet-tall of him, would not be walking onto the field for warm-ups and drills.

His teammates are grieving, said Jeff Fleener, the coach of the high school team, called the Skeeters. Sheer athleticism aside, Jordan’s “big smile” would be missed by his team, Mr. Fleener said in a telephone interview on Monday.

“I met Jordan on day one and learned his name very quickly just because of the type of kid he was,” said Mr. Fleener.

He said Jordan was a committed athlete who was often seen either working out in the weight room or surrounded by the camaraderie of teammates in the locker room and on the field. He had aspirations to play college football, and was trying out for the team’s defensive position, Mr. Fleener said.

“He was tall and strong, a guy that spent a lot of time in the weight room to make himself better, bigger and stronger,” Mr. Fleener said. “The big thing is he was not scared to come hit somebody on the football field. Off the field, his big smile lit up a room, but he knew how to flip that switch on the field and play with some physicality.”

“He was everybody’s friend — his attitude and smile, everything was just contagious about him. He was excellent — 3.5 GPA, never in trouble, no attendance issues,” said Mr. Fleener. “He was a kid that did everything right.”

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http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/05/05/balch-springs-officer-shot-killed-teen-faces-murder-charge/
Balch Springs Officer Who Shot, Killed Teen Charged With Murder

BALCH SPRINGS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – The Dallas County DA’s Office has issued a murder arrest warrant for fired Balch Springs Police Officer Roy Oliver.

Oliver shot and killed Jordan Edwards, 15, who was in the passenger seat of a car taking off from a party that got out of hand.

According to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, the warrant was issued due to evidence that suggested Oliver intended to cause serious ? injury and commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that caused the death of an individual.

The warrant gives any peace officer the authority to arrest Roy Oliver for the crime of murder.

Mr. Oliver can also turn himself in to any peace officer if he so chooses.

The investigation into Edwards’ seath will continue and does not conclude with the arrest of Roy Oliver, the department said.

Records show Oliver was briefly suspended in 2013 following a complaint about his conduct while serving as a witness in a ? -driving case.


Personnel records from the Balch Springs Police Department obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show former officer Roy Oliver was suspended for 16 hours in December 2013 after the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office filed the complaint. Oliver also was ordered to take training courses in anger management and courtroom demeanor and testimony.

Oliver joined the Balch Springs department in 2011 after being an officer with the Dalworthington Gardens Police Department for almost a year. A statement from Dalworthington Gardens officials late Wednesday included some details of that and previous intermittent employment as a dispatcher and public works employee between 1999 and 2004.
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  • stringer bell
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    http://www.wfaa.com/news/balch-springs-police-chief-i-misspoke-on-officer-involved-shooting-that-killed-teen/435734436
    Balch Springs Police Chief: 'I misspoke' on officer-involved shooting that killed teen

    Balch Springs Police held a press conference Monday afternoon and released new details on the officer-involved shooting that killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards.

    According to Balch Springs police, officers responded to a report of intoxicated teenagers on a residential street in the 12300 block of Baron Drive at 11 p.m. Saturday. Neighbors said a large house party was underway at the time.

    "After further investigation, I have additional information that is contradictory to the information that was provided to me yesterday," Chief Jonathan Haber said.

    Originally, Haber said when officers arrived on the street, they heard gunfire and a car filled with passengers backed towards them in reverse.

    "I unintentionally, incorrect yesterday when I said the vehicle was backing down the road. In fact, according to the video that I viewed the vehicle was moving forward as the officer was approached."

    The officer involved has been with the department for about six years.

    "I do have questions in relation to my observation on the video and what is consistent with the policies and core values of the Balch Springs Police Department," Haber said.

    When asked about why a rifle was used in the shooting incident, Chief Haber says he cannot comment because it is apart of the ongoing investigation.

    Two separate investigations are occurring centered around this incident. One on the officer's actions and one regarding the shooting of Edwards.



    This ? ain't adding up...
  • stringer bell
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    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/30/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-balch-springs
    Car was driving away from officer when he shot boy with rifle, Balch Springs chief says

    The police chief in Balch Springs admitted Monday that a car full of teens was driving away from police when an officer armed with a rifle fatally shot a 15-year-old boy in the head.

    After reviewing body-cam footage, Police Chief Jonathan Haber reversed his initial account about Saturday's deadly confrontation, saying the teen behind the wheel Saturday night at first backed down the street but was fleeing the scene when the officer opened fire.

    "It did not meet our core values," Haber said of his officer's actions.

    Haber had initially said the car was driving backward when Jordan Edwards was shot. The officers had been inside a house where they found a large party. The ran outside after hearing gunshots around 11 p.m. Saturday in the 12300 block of Baron Drive.


    Jordan, a freshman at Mesquite High School, was leaving the party over the weekend when the officer shot him through the passenger's side window.

    The medical examiner's office said Jordan was killed with a rifle and also ruled his death a homicide, though that doesn't necessarily mean charges will be filed.

    The Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney's public-integrity unit are investigating the shooting.

    Attorney Lee Merritt, who represents Jordan's family, said Jordan and four other teens heard gunshots and decided to get in a car and leave the party. He said the teens heard someone cursing and then three shots were fired into the car.

    The officer, who has not been named, has been placed on administrative leave. No officers were injured.

    The teen's parents are asking for the officer to be arrested and charged, Merritt said. He said Jordan and the others in the vehicle were not the teens whom police had initially been called about and had not been drinking. He said they did not face charges.

    Jordan was a straight-A student and a standout athlete, who was beloved by his schoolmates, Merritt said at a news conference Monday afternoon. The boy's parents, Charmaine and Odell Edwards, sat silently next to the attorney, occasionally wiping their eyes with tissues. They declined to talk about their son or the shooting.

    "We've heard excuses before in the past: You know why it happens, because the dads aren't present. That excuse isn't here," Merritt said. "Or the kid was violent. That excuse isn't present here."

    Charmaine Edwards looked down during most of the 30-minute news conference at a Dallas office tower. In an elevator, away from the cameras, she broke down in sobs.


    At the school

    At Mesquite High School, head football coach Jeff Fleener said he was "crushed and heartbroken" when he found out Jordan had been killed. He said Jordan was a good kid who never got into trouble and had a GPA over 3.5.

    Fleener has been at the school only two months, but he said Jordan introduced himself on his first day and that the two became "quick friends." Jordan played on the freshman team and was supposed to begin playing defensive back this spring. Practices with football pads were scheduled to start Monday but were postponed a day.

    Jordan had a "smile that could light up a room," Fleener said, and many friends.

    "The best thing in the world or the worst thing in the world would happen, and he'd smile, and everything would be OK," the coach said. "You create a checklist of everything you would want in a player, a son, a teammate, a friend, and Jordan had all that. He was that kid."

    Extra counselors were at Mesquite High on Monday, and an end-of-year ninth-grade biology exam was postponed until Tuesday, a spokeswoman said.

    "Mesquite ISD's deepest sympathies and prayers are with the family and friends of this young man who tragically lost his life late Saturday evening," the school district said in a written statement. "He was a good student who was very well liked by his teachers, coaches and his fellow students. The entire district — especially the staff and students of Mesquite High School — are mourning this terrible loss."

    Fleener said he spent Sunday talking to adults about Jordan's death and that it was hard. But it was even harder to talk about what happened with students. He said he told the kids that he was experiencing a whirlwind of emotions and that it was OK if they did, too.

    "I went from sad to sick to my stomach to angry to praying to asking why," Fleener said. "They needed to understand it was OK to have those feelings and that we were going to get through this together."

    Friend and teammate Thomas "Dewey" Colombrito, 15, said he Jordan had a promising athletic career ahead of him. The two were on the Mesquite Texans ? Wee football team. Dewey was a nose guard, Jordan a running back.

    "He was a good athlete. He would have made it to the NFL," said Dewey, a student at John Horn High School. "He loved his family even more than he loved football though."

    He said teammates relied on Jordan and was the one they went to for help or to get hyped up for a game. "You could trust him with the world," he said.

    In the neighborhood

    Neighbors said there were about 100 teens at the party Saturday night. Dora Daniels, who lives on Baron Drive, said the partygoers were blocking people's driveways and that her son called police to ask them to check out the party because of possible underage drinking.

    Daniels said she wasn't sure whether there was alcohol at the party.

    When the first officer arrived, kids began to scatter "like ants," Daniels said. A second officer arrived soon after.

    Lisa Roberson, who was out of town when her son threw the party without her approval, said a male officer came into the house to talk to her son and to tell partygoers to leave. Roberson said her son told her there was no drinking in the house.

    Neighbors said they heard three or four shots from what sounded like a pistol or small gun. There was a pause before another two or three shots, they said, and then a "bam bam bam" that sounded like it was coming from a large gun, possibly a rifle.

    The neighbors said they didn't see who fired the shots. Daniels said she saw an officer run toward the gunfire after the first round.

    The investigation

    Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson offered her condolences to Jordan's family and said her office will independently investigate the shooting. The DA's office has a "commitment to justice and transparency," she said.

    The sheriff's office said in a written statement that it was in the preliminary stages of its investigation.

    "The investigation will take time and we ask for patience as our investigators diligently work to complete this task," the statement said.

    Haber, the police chief, said the department would not release the video footage while the investigation is ongoing.

    The police chief, who also offered his condolences, had to stop multiple times to collect himself at a news conference when talking about the conversations he's had with the Edwards family.

    "My heart just gets beat," Haber said of Jordan's death. "If there's something to be learned here, we can all learn it together and move forward together and find solutions how to fix what the problem is.
  • jetlifebih
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    The precedent was set in that Louisiana case when the black cop got 40 years for firing into the car of a known criminal and killing a kid. Let's see what makes this so different in their mind.

    That's apples and oranges in America....you know that....
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    His father from IG.. This ? is so depressing...

    He's clearly living that thug life.
  • northside7
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    edited May 2017
    Trillfate wrote: »
    Their first instinct is to lie even when they wearing bodycams.. cops are stupid
    Cops don't tell the truth ever, ? of the earth. Hope the family get's justice somehow.

    C/S.
  • stringer bell
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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/01/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-boy-in-dallas-suburb/?utm_term=.8f6787b1a0bd
    Shooting of black teen in Dallas suburb did not meet ‘our core values,’ police chief says

    Police have retracted earlier accounts that a vehicle was reversing toward officers in an “aggressive manner” when one of the officers opened fire, striking and killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards in a Dallas-area suburb Saturday night.

    In a news conference Monday, Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber said that he initially “misspoke” and that the vehicle had begun to drive away at the time the officer opened fire. He questioned whether the shooting was necessary.

    “I unintentionally (was) incorrect when I said the vehicle was backing down the road … in fact I can tell you that I do have questions in relation to my observation (of) the video,” Haber said. “After reviewing the video, I don’t believe that (the shooting) met our core values.”

    Haber, who declined to release the video footage of the shooting as well as the name of the officer involved, said that evidence will be presented to a grand jury.

    Jordan is the youngest of the more than 330 people who have been shot and killed by police in 2017, according to a Washington Post database tracking such shootings. About 25 percent of those fatally shot by police this year have been black, and about 7 percent of those killed have been unarmed at the time they were shot. At least 10 people shot and killed by police this year were under 18.

    Lee Merritt, an attorney for Edwards’s family, said at a news conference Monday that the family is calling on the police department to release the name of the officer as well as audio and video footage of the incident.

    “We are declaring war on bad policing. This has happened far too often,” he said. “We are tired of making the same rhetorical demands, of having the same hashtags; our community is fed up with the same tired excuses, once again offered by Balch Springs Police Department yesterday, that this was somehow the fault of the victims — teenage kids with no criminal records, with no motive to attempt to hurt anyone, with no evidence that they ever attempted to hurt anyone.”

    “Another family ripped apart by police brutality,” he wrote Sunday on Twitter. “There was absolutely no justification for this murder. We demand justice!”

    In a phone interview with The Post on Sunday night, Merritt said that Jordan, his 16-year-old brother and three other teenage boys were at a party on Baron Drive when they learned that police were on the way.

    They went to the car parked outside, saw flashlights and heard gunshots, Merritt said. As they climbed into the car, the teens apparently heard somebody yell profanities. Then they were being fired upon.

    They fled for about a block, Merritt said, before they noticed that there was smoke coming from Jordan’s head. The driver of the car, the boy’s older brother, stopped the car, and they flagged down an approaching police cruiser for help.

    Several of the teens played on the football team together. Jordan was going through spring training for next year’s season.

    “They’re never going to be the same,” Merritt said. “These kids are never going to be the same.”

    Merritt said that three bullets were fired into the car. They came through the driver’s side window, he said.

    Jordan and the four teens with him had not been drinking, according to Merritt. They were not cited for underage drinking and have not been charged with any crimes, he said.
  • The Hue
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  • Trillfate
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    ^^^ Washington post comment
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    11:55 AM PDT
    When Trayvon Martin was murdered by a "neighborhood watch" amateur cop, a massive and highly effective propaganda effort was immediately launched nationwide, to smear the dead kid and laud his killer (we still don't know who funded the effort, but it would probably be useful to look at the usual dark money Republican donor base-- people like Robert and Rebekah Mercer, who fund Breitbart, for instance).

    With every subsequent shooting of a black kid, especially when the shooter has been a cop, we've had a refinement of that same campaign of smears, lies, and deflections, attacking the character of the dead child and of his family members, touting the kind of fake crime "statistics" so popular in white supremacist circles, and arguing that if only the dead kid had done X, Y, or Z he'd still be alive, or if only there was no such thing as Black Lives Matter police wouldn't feel the need to ? people, or if only Chicago blah blah blah and whatever.

    All that white noise to drown out the ugly truth.

    But this is a case where the truth is so tragically obvious, where the official lies are so brutally apparent, where the character of the dead kid is so beyond reproach, that even that vast propaganda apparatus is having a hard time buzzing into action.

    Not an impossible time, mind you: there are still plenty of white conservatives out there who rejoice in and shrug off and explain away every death of a black child.

    But this time, even the usual apologists are finding it difficult to make the usual excuses. This killing of an innocent, unarmed kid is so tragic, so horrid, so inexcusable, so malignant, that there are even law enforcement officers hard put to pretend it was somehow "necessary" or that Jordan somehow brought it on himself.

    ? help this family endure this awful pain. And may law enforcement actually learn something from this other than how to smear, mislead, and outright lie their way out of trouble.
  • R0mp
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    Cinco wrote: »
    Straight up lied

    That's why I chuckle at folks who blow a gasket at the suggestion that law enforcement can engage in misconduct.
  • SolemnSauce
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    Arron Hernandez killed himself tho...he wrote suicide notes and had ? behind his door..

    Rip to this young man
  • AZTG
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    This ? man. This here is that ? .