‘He Was Not a Thug’: Cop Shoots into Car of Innocent Kids, Kills Unarmed 15yo Boy
By Matt Agorist
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
May 1, 2017
Balch Springs, TX — A family is devastated and a community is in shock after a model student and athlete has been killed by a Balch Springs police officer. While police refuse to identify the boy, family and friends have identified him as 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. According to the family’s attorney, he was unarmed and had committed no crime when he was killed.
According to police, they were responding to a party at which underage drinking was allegedly taking place. There were reports of intoxicated teenagers moving along the 12300 block of Baron Drive around 11 p.m. Saturday night.
Police claim responding officers heard gunfire while looking for the alleged intoxicated teens. When they saw a car in which Edwards was a passenger, one officer opened fire as the vehicle backed up.
“There was an unknown altercation with the vehicle backing down the road towards the officers in an aggressive manner. An officer shot at the vehicle, striking a front seat passenger. The individual was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased,” according to a news release by the Balch Springs police.
No guns were found in the vehicle.
All too often police use excuse that a vehicle was presenting a threat and open fire. As we’ve extensively reported — the overwhelming majority of the time — this is untrue.
Also, according to the family’s attorney, Lee Merritt, the teens in the car were not the ones police were looking for and had not been drinking.
Merritt explained to the Dallas Morning News that Edwards and his friends were trying to escape from the gunfire when the officer killed him.
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