Current Events > The Forth Worth cop who shot Atatiana Jefferson has been officially charged.

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://news.yahoo.com/questions-intensify-texas-officer-kills-120647544.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews

A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home while responding to a call about an open front door was charged with murder on Monday after resigning from the force.

Aaron Dean, 34, was booked into jail on a murder charge Monday afternoon. The police chief said earlier in the day that he acted without justification and would have been fired if he didn't quit.

Police bodycam video showed Dean approaching the door of the home where Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was caring for her 8-year-old nephew early Saturday. He then walked around the side of the house, pushed through a gate into the fenced-off backyard and fired through the glass a split-second after shouting at Jefferson to show her hands.

Dean was not heard identifying himself as police on the video, and Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus said there was no sign Dean or the other officer who responded even knocked on the front door.

"Nobody looked at this video and said that there's any doubt that this officer acted inappropriately," Kraus said.

Earlier in the day, Jefferson's family had demanded that Dean, a member of the force for 1 years, be fired and arrested.

"Why this man is not in handcuffs is a source of continued agitation for this family and for this community," family attorney Lee Merritt said, hours before Dean was booked into jail.

Police went to Jefferson's home about 2:25 a.m. after a neighbor called a non-emergency line to report a door ajar. In a statement over the weekend, the department said officers saw someone near a window inside the home and that one of them drew his gun and fired after "perceiving a threat."

The video showed Dean shouting, "Put your hands up! Show me your hands!" and immediately firing.

Jefferson was staying up late, playing video games with her nephew, when she was killed, according to the family's attorney.

As for what, exactly, led Dean to open fire, the police chief said: "I cannot make sense of why she had to lose her life." The chief said Dean resigned without talking to internal affairs investigators.

The video included images of a gun inside a bedroom. Kraus said he did not know whether Jefferson was holding the weapon. But he said the mere fact she had a gun shouldn't be considered unusual in Texas.

This is one of the most ridiculous police shooting I've heard, and that is saying a lot after Botham Jean.
---

Good.

---

Wow, didn't expect that.

Fuck that guy.
---

Good. Piece of shit needs to answer for this bullshit.

---

hopefully he gets convicted
---

They gave him time to clean up his social media accounts.
---

Godnorgosh posted...

Totally unimportant compared to the actual story but why do people have a hard time spelling "Fort"

Also I'm like 5 miles from where this happened, crazy shit

Most time when people pronounce it doesn't sound like Fort .
---

Tell me when they actually find him guilty and he doesnt just get a new job at a new precinct next town over.
---

cjsdowg posted...

They gave him time to clean up his social media accounts.

I dont think that's going to matter. This is beyond egregious. If he doesn't get the max penalty I dont know what else can be done.

---

Geiki Ganger posted...

This is one of the most ridiculous police shooting I've heard, and that is saying a lot after Botham Jean.

Yeah. Botham Jean is a horrible accident driven by incompetence and irresponsibility.

What this dude did is worse in every way. Everything he did was deliberate.

---

Good
---

This was a hit.
---

Wow, he didn't even announce he was police? Wtf man
---

oh yeah what about Fifth Worth

i'll be here all night
---

Hope the judge isn't thinking about hugging this one.
---

When even the cops I know think it's bullshit, you know it's bad.

Who the fuck just goes walking around a backyard on a welfare check call?
---