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The chief also addressed speculation about the ethnicity of the officer who shot Taylor, saying the officer is not white. Taylor’s brother, Jerrail Taylor, raised issues last week about racial profiling. He said his brother was Hispanic.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC 4 Utah)- Tuesday, we learned more information about the officer-involved shooting in South Salt Lake that killed 20-year-old Dillon Taylor.
Salt Lake City’s Police Chief says that shooting just doesn’t compare to the rising tensions in Ferguson, Missouri where 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police.
Chief Burbank spoke with the media for about an hour in what wasn’t a presser but a question and answer session. He says dialogue is what’s missing between police departments and communities across the nation.
These scenes from Ferguson, Missouri would be the opposite of what Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank would call good community policing.
“If we show up wearing riot gear it says throw rocks and boulders at us,” said Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank.
Chief Burbank says Salt Lake City is not Ferguson. And he’s handling the officer-involved shooting that lead to 20-year-old Dillon Taylor’s death much differently than Ferguson Police.
