Agent gets 15 years old because of dead black teenager

austin - A former policeman in Texas has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for killing an unarmed black teenager.

The now 38-year-old agent Roy Oliver shot in a suburb of Dallas last year on a car he wanted to stop with a colleague. He touched one of the occupants, the fifteen-year-old Jordan Edwards, who died.

The jury already ruled Tuesday that the agent committed a murder. A conviction of an agent for the shooting of an unarmed citizen is rare in the US. The death of Edwards sparked a fierce discussion in the US about possible racist motives of agents in shooting at suspects who have a dark skin color.

Olivers lawyers argued that the agent shot because he believed that his partner's life was in danger. He shot the car five times. They appeal.