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| President Obama has not mentioned the fatal shooting of Dillon Taylor by a Black policeman. No "Civil Rights leaders" have surfaced in Utah, and the national media is not very interested. |
Rush Limbaugh caller exposes Black cop who shot unarmed white man
According to a caller to the Rush Limbaugh show Wednesday, the police department will not release the 911 call or the video related to the fatal shooting.
According to a caller to the Rush Limbaugh show Wednesday, the police department will not release the 911 call or the video related to the fatal shooting.
South Salt Lake (Utah) police are investigating the Aug. 12, shooting of Dillon Taylor, 20, who was unarmed. Taylor is white.
But the media is reluctant to confirm
that Taylor was unarmed, and they are identifying the Black police
officer who shot him, as “other-than-white.”
According to KUTV, in Salt lake
City, Dillon Taylor, from Salt Lake, was exiting a 7-Eleven with his
brother (Jerrail) and cousin, Adam Thayne, around 7 p.m. when Salt
Lake City police arrived, responding to a report of a man waving a
gun in the area.
The officers ordered the men to the ground. Two of them complied, but Dillon, who police say matched the suspect's description, did not go down.
"It came in as a 911 call that there was a man with a gun," said South Salt Lake Police Sgt. Darrin Sweeten. "He was verbally challenged and ultimately was shot."
Sweeten did not release further details on the shooting on Tuesday.
Dillon's brother and cousin claim they were on their way to visit his parents' graves and that Dillon was surprised by the police presence. He was not aggressive, they said.
"He had headphones in, and he couldn't hear [anything], and then they finally surrounded him," Jerrail said. "They're like, 'Get on the ground,' and [he] pulled up his pants and [they] shot him."
Thayne believes police might have thought his cousin was reaching for a gun when, in reality, he grabbed his cell phone.
"I was in shock, because he was wearing a white t-shirt and there was blood all over it," Thayne said. "They ran up and handcuffed him. He wasn't moving."
A witness's video shows police yelling for the two men to remain on the ground as Thayne repeatedly screams that they have shot his cousin.
The two men were taken to the police station, but released hours later without being charged or cited. Family said Dillon had had struggles throughout his teenage and adult life, including a criminal past, after losing his parents at the age of 12.
They hope to remember him as a loyal friend and devoted father-to-be. His girlfriend is just a couple months pregnant, Jerrail said."He was the funniest kid ever," Jerrail said. "His own baby will never meet him."
The officers ordered the men to the ground. Two of them complied, but Dillon, who police say matched the suspect's description, did not go down.
"It came in as a 911 call that there was a man with a gun," said South Salt Lake Police Sgt. Darrin Sweeten. "He was verbally challenged and ultimately was shot."
Sweeten did not release further details on the shooting on Tuesday.
Dillon's brother and cousin claim they were on their way to visit his parents' graves and that Dillon was surprised by the police presence. He was not aggressive, they said.
"He had headphones in, and he couldn't hear [anything], and then they finally surrounded him," Jerrail said. "They're like, 'Get on the ground,' and [he] pulled up his pants and [they] shot him."
Thayne believes police might have thought his cousin was reaching for a gun when, in reality, he grabbed his cell phone.
"I was in shock, because he was wearing a white t-shirt and there was blood all over it," Thayne said. "They ran up and handcuffed him. He wasn't moving."
A witness's video shows police yelling for the two men to remain on the ground as Thayne repeatedly screams that they have shot his cousin.
The two men were taken to the police station, but released hours later without being charged or cited. Family said Dillon had had struggles throughout his teenage and adult life, including a criminal past, after losing his parents at the age of 12.
They hope to remember him as a loyal friend and devoted father-to-be. His girlfriend is just a couple months pregnant, Jerrail said."He was the funniest kid ever," Jerrail said. "His own baby will never meet him."
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