VIDEO: ASU Football Player Seen on Video Vandalizing Car Dealership Before Police Shot Him

@ "If this was your child, family member or friend, would you like to be told they were asking for it?"

I possibly wouldn't, but the inconvenience of such a forthright statement wouldn't make it any less truthful.

A common argument made in officer related shootings/deaths is "such and such crime doesn't warrant the death penalty". This statement in of itself is true, however, many of these recent incidents were NOT the results of officers doling out punishments for said violations -- rather the suspect's volatile behavior which required an officer's immediate response.

If you're stopped and questioned by a police officer, or confronted during the commission of a crime, you could be looking at a ticket, or at worst, jail time. The game changes once you decide to be combative or aggressive, and your chances of injury or death rises exponentially.

There is a recurring pattern we're seeing more and more of: entitled lowlife's willingly breaking the law, obstinately resisting officer's commands/becoming combative upon being caught, and then suffering injury or death as a result of their actions. When this occurs, suddenly every criminal apologist (many of whom are criminals themselves) begin calling for the head of the officer(s) involved.

The very manner in which various news outlets are reporting this incident is a sign of the times as well. The Dallas Morning News has a headline which reads "Arlington police officer in training fatally shoots unarmed teen at car dealership". Does that headline TRULY encompass the incident? A more suitable and impartial headline, half that size may have simply read "Burglar killed in confrontation with officer".

We see the video. The a-hole intentionally burglarized and vandalized a business and the property within. If we're to believe that there's a sudden epidemic of racist, trigger-happy, poorly trained police officers running rampant, this thug may have done better for himself by simply NOT burglarizing a car dealership.

There's no omnipotent force which requires one to be a criminal jackass. The thug wasn't burglarizing because he was desperately hungry and he didn't crash through a place of business in an escape from imminent danger. There not a whole lot to do at 1 a.m., but boredom isn't much of an excuse either. Like most criminals, he just felt like being a POS and made some POS choices accordingly.

The officer's only been on the force since 2014 and whether his use of force is found to be justifiable or not, this incident will definitely follow him for the rest of his career. Considering the damning video and the outcome, I only see an officer who responded to a burglary and successfully ended a crime in progress. As a result, Mr. Taylor will never victimize another person again.

Officer Miller did nothing but the job he was paid to do.

My thoughts are with the broken windshield and showroom window.

I don't think Lares apathy is healthy - at least not for society as a whole - no matter how much he sounds like my own id... I also don't agree with the jingoistic assumptions of some that, because the police or other authorities have done this or that, that it was necessary and justified. If human nature weren't as apt to maliciousness as it is, the Founders of the US would have had no need to construct a system of checks and balances to harness that nature. Better to stay with monarchy if humankind - or at least a few bloodlines - could be supernally just.

I have a lot of sympathy for people driven by desperation or ensnared by their own ignorance or that of their upbringing. But this guy? While Lares sides with inanimate objects, I side with society. This man did ask for what he got through his destructive choices, and unfortunately, he got it.