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		</div><h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong> Texas police change account of death in Jordan Edwards shooting</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong><span class="off-screen">Jordan Edwards, a straight A high school freshman and stand out athlete, </span>was shot in the back of the head by police on Saturday evening</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Edwards, 15, died after an officer fired a rifle into a car that was driving away from a house party in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Footage discredits police account of events </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Contradicts initial police claim that the car reversed &#8220;aggressively&#8221; towards the officer</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Police Chief Jonathan Haber says he &#8220;misspoke&#8221; </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Public call for arrest of yet to be named 6-year veteran officer, unheeded by Balch Springs police dept</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="story-body__h1"><span style="color:#1c0202;"><strong>Jordan&#8217;s death has been officially ruled a homicide</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="media-portrait has-caption full-width lead"><span class="image-and-copyright-container"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-176501" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jordan-edwards7.png" alt="Jordan Edwards7.png" width="660" height="575" />Straight A student Jordan Edwards shot in the back of the head by police at age 15, leaving a party </strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-175380" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jordan-edwards.png" alt="Jordan Edwards" width="773" height="699" />15-year-old Jordan was remembered as &#8220;a checklist of everything you would want in a player, a son, a teammate, a friend&#8221;</strong></h6>
<p class="story-body__introduction">The police department in Balch Springs, Texas police, Monday changed a key detail in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, amid mounting calls for the officer involved to be arrested.<br />
Jordan Edwards, 15, died after an<a href="http://konniemoments.com/2017/05/01/texas-police-officer-shoots-into-car-full-of-unarmed-teen-boys-fleeing-trouble-at-a-raucous-house-party-kills-15-year-old-high-school-freshman-jordan-edwards/"> officer fired a rifle into a car that was driving away from a house party</a> in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs, on Saturday evening<br />
Police initially said the car reversed &#8220;aggressively&#8221; towards the officer, but footage discredits that claim.<br />
Police Chief Jonathan Haber today claimed he &#8220;misspoke&#8221;, when stating the alternative facts<br />
Although the officer has not been identified, he reportedly has been with the Balch Spring Police Department for six years.<br />
<a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/05/01/texas-police-officer-shoots-into-car-full-of-unarmed-teen-boys-fleeing-trouble-at-a-raucous-house-party-kills-15-year-old-high-school-freshman-jordan-edwards/" rel="bookmark">Texas police officer shoots into car full of unarmed teen boys fleeing trouble at a raucous house party, kills 15-year-old high school freshman, Jordan Edwards</a></p>
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<h6 class="player-with-placeholder"><img class="alignnone wp-image-176493" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/prayer-vigil-for-jordan-edwards.jpg" alt="Prayer vigil for Jordan Edwards" width="801" height="451" /><strong>Prayer vigil held by school for unarmed freshman Jordan Edwards who was killed by police when he was leaving a house party on Saturday</strong></h6>
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<p>After reviewing the body-cam video Chief Haber said, it was determined that the officer fired into a car full of teenagers as they left a party on Saturday night.<br />
Contrary to the earlier report, the car was actually driving forward &#8211; away from police &#8211; and not reversing &#8216;aggressively&#8217; toward them when the shots were fired, he explained.<br />
&#8220;I was unintentionally incorrect yesterday when I said that the victim&#8217;s vehicle was backing down the road,&#8221; Mr Haber said on Monday.<br />
&#8220;In fact, according to the video that I viewed, the vehicle was moving forward as the officers approached.&#8221;</p>
<h6 class="media-landscape has-caption full-width"><span class="image-and-copyright-container"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-176497" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jordan-edwards4.jpg" alt="Jordan Edwards4" width="660" height="776" /><strong>Jordan Edwards was not armed nor had he been drinking when he was shot in the back of the head as he left the party to avoid trouble on Saturday</strong></span></h6>
<p>The officer&#8217;s behaviour &#8220;did not meet our core values&#8221;, the police chief said, adding that he has been placed on administrative leave.<br />
Jordan, who was in the front passenger seat, died after being shot in the back of the head.<br />
His 16-year-old brother and three friends were detained at the scene and taken to the Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, where they were interviewed as witnesses.<br />
Jordan&#8217;s cause of death has been ruled a homicide, however, that does not necessarily mean charges will be filed against the officer.</p>
<h6 class="media-landscape has-caption full-width"><span class="image-and-copyright-container"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-176565" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/charmaine-and-ordell-edwards1.jpg" alt="Charmaine and Ordell Edwards1.jpg" width="800" height="534" />Charmaine andOrdell edwards grieves as it appears no one is yet accountable for the death of their teenage son. [Photo] the distraught parents silently wept as their lawyers called for the shooter&#8217;s arrest</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/lee-merritt1.png?w=640&;h=537" alt="Lee Merritt1.png" width="766" height="642" />Edwards&#8217; lawyer, lee Merrit: &#8220;America throughout the country must figure out a way to police its citizens without killing them&#8221;</strong></h6>
<p>The Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the Dallas County District Attorney&#8217;s Office are conducting a criminal investigation.<br />
The incident occurred on Saturday night when police responded to reports of underage drinking at a house party where around 100 kids had gathered, neighbours said.<br />
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.<br />
After going outside, the police officer fired several shots which killed Jordan, a first-year American football player at Mesquite High School.</p>
<h6><strong><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/balch-springs-police-chief-haber.png?w=620" alt="Balch springs Police Chief Haber.png" /><br />
Balch Springs police chief Jonathan Haber &#8211; &#8220;I was unintentionally incorrect,&#8221;</strong></h6>
<h6 class="media-landscape no-caption full-width"><span class="image-and-copyright-container"><img class="responsive-image__img js-image-replace" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/89AF/production/_95874253_de27-1.jpg" alt="Balch Spring police car" width="976" height="549" /><strong><span class="off-screen">Balch Springs PD false account of circumstances around shooting caught out body-cam video</span></strong></span></h6>
<p>His football coach, at Mesquite High School, Jeff Fleener, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/30/officer-fatally-shoots-15-year-old-balch-springs">told the Dallas Morning News</a> that he was &#8220;crushed and heartbroken&#8221; to learn that Jordan had been killed.<br />
&#8220;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,&#8221; he said. &#8216;Jordan was a good kid who never got into trouble and had a GPA over 3.5.&#8217;<br />
A vigil was held at the school on Monday evening, and the school district said they are &#8220;mourning this terrible loss&#8221;.<br />
Lee Merritt, lawyer for Jordan&#8217;s family, demanded the officer&#8217;s arrest on Monday.<br />
&#8220;We are declaring war on bad policing,&#8221; he said as Jordan&#8217;s parents sat silently beside him, wiping their eyes with tissues and gazing downwards.<br />
&#8220;America throughout the country must figure out a way to police its citizens without killing them,&#8221; he continued.</p>
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Footage upstages ‘Alternative facts’ in police account of the shooting of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards – cops rule homicide as Chief says “I misspoke”
