Police Department: Police Killings

police department: His 16-year-old brother was driving, according to Toronto Star. Mesquite Independent School District By Claudia Lauer Nomaan Merchant And Jamie Stengle Associated Press Wed., May 3, 2017 BALCH SPRINGS, TEXAS The Dallas suburb where a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager as he left a party has a population that's just 20 per cent white but a police department that's 80 per cent white. Rose Baca / AP Shots hit Edwards in the front seat, according to Edwards' family attorneys. Balch Springs now confronts the same issues of race and law enforcement as Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore and other cities that have been thrust into the spotlight because of police killings of Roy Oliver was fired three days after the Saturday night shooting. The family also wants the officer to be charged with a crime. But lawyers for 15-year-old Jordan Edwards' family said Wednesday that the city must answer for more than Oliver, including a racial slur allegedly yelled at one of Edwards' brothers moments after the shooting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.