FBI aid sought in Texas probe of unarmed black teen shot dead by police

The FBI has been asked to help investigate a white police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager suspected of driving a vehicle through the window of a car dealership in Arlington, Texas, the city's police chief said on Saturday. The shooting death early on Friday of 19-year-old college football player Christian Taylor came two days before the one-year anniversary of the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in an encounter with a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, that ignited protests in many U.S. cities. Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said at a news conference his department asked Tom Class, special agent in charge at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Dallas office, to participate in the probe of Taylor's death and review investigative work and findings.

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