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| Jordan Edwards shooting: Texas police officer fired | |
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| A Texas police department has sacked an officer who shot an unarmed black teenager in the back of the head at the weekend. | |
| Jordan Edwards, 15, died after Officer Roy Oliver fired a rifle into a car that was driving away from a party in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs. | Jordan Edwards, 15, died after Officer Roy Oliver fired a rifle into a car that was driving away from a party in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs. |
| Police initially said the car reversed "aggressively" towards the officer, but footage discredits that claim. | Police initially said the car reversed "aggressively" towards the officer, but footage discredits that claim. |
| Police Chief Jonathan Haber said he "misspoke". | Police Chief Jonathan Haber said he "misspoke". |
| Officer Oliver was fired for violating several department policies, a police statement said, without providing further details. | |
| Lee Meritt, a lawyer for Jordan's family, said they want the officer arrested. | |
| They also want the other police on scene that night to be punished for their treatment of family members. | |
| The death occurred on Saturday night when police responded to reports of underage drinking at a house party where around 100 kids had gathered, neighbours said. | |
| Officers were inside the home trying to find the owner when they heard outside what they believed to be gunshots, causing panic at the home as people fled. | |
| Officer Oliver fired into a car full of teenagers as they left the party, Chief Haber said after reviewing the body-cam video. | |
| The car was actually driving forward - away from police - and not reversing toward them when the shots were fired, he explained. | The car was actually driving forward - away from police - and not reversing toward them when the shots were fired, he explained. |
| Jordan, who was in the front passenger seat, died after being shot in the back of the head. | |
| "I was unintentionally incorrect yesterday when I said that the victim's vehicle was backing down the road," Mr Haber said on Monday. | "I was unintentionally incorrect yesterday when I said that the victim's vehicle was backing down the road," Mr Haber said on Monday. |
| "In fact, according to the video that I viewed, the vehicle was moving forward as the officers approached." | "In fact, according to the video that I viewed, the vehicle was moving forward as the officers approached." |
| The officer's behaviour "did not meet our core values", the police chief added. | |
| Jordan's brothers, Vidal and Kevon, and two friends were detained at the scene and taken to the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, where they were held overnight and interviewed as witnesses. | |
| After the shooting, the boys "were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay dying in the front seat", the family statement said. | |
| "The officers who extended this nightmare for those children ought to be properly reprimanded," the Edwards family said. | |
| They added that they do not want protests to be held until after the funeral. | |
| "Their young lives will forever be altered," the family statement said. "No one, let alone young children, should witness such horrific, unexplainable, violence." | |
| Mr Merrit told NBC News that Jordan's father was detained when he arrived at the police station and accused of "hostile behaviour". | |
| Jordan's cause of death has been ruled a homicide, however, that does not necessarily mean charges will be filed against the officer. | Jordan's cause of death has been ruled a homicide, however, that does not necessarily mean charges will be filed against the officer. |
| The Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office are conducting a criminal investigation. | The Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office are conducting a criminal investigation. |
| Jordan's coach, Jeff Fleener, told the Dallas Morning News that he was "crushed and heartbroken" to learn the first-year American football player at Mesquite High School had been killed. | |
| "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," he 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," he said. |