Tuesday, October 15, 2019

ONE SHOT, ONE KILL, ONE RESIGNATION ….. WILL CRIMINAL CHARGES FOLLOW?

White cop who shot dead 28-year-old black woman in her own home during a wellness check RESIGNS as victim's family blasts Fort Worth police and calls for an independent probe

Daily Mail
October 14, 2019

Fort Worth interim police chief Ed Kraus announced that Officer Aaron Dean tendered his resignation on Monday afternoon, two days after he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home.

The officer was called to the home to perform a wellness check after a neighbor noticed Atatiana's front door was open at around 2.30am Saturday.

Atatiana was playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew when they heard a noise outside and she went to investigate, assuming it was a prowler.

Body camera footage shows one of the officers shining flashlights into the back side home as Atatiana approached the bedroom window. 'Put your hands up! Show me your hands!' he shouted through the window. A split-second later, the officer fired a single shot, killing Atatiana.

The victim's loved ones spoke at a press conference on Monday. They called for an independent investigation into the 28-year-old's death. Lee Miller, the family's attorney, called the Fort Worth Police Department 'one of the deadliest in the United States' and said the incident was 'not a one-of'.
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THINGS HAPPENING FAST IN FORT WORTH

by Bob Walsh

Aaron Dean, 34, the former Ft. Worth Police Officer, resigned yesterday just ahead of being fired for the highly questionable shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, in a private residence.

Dean responded to a welfare check call made by a neighbor. He never did go to the front door, which was standing open, or announce himself. He moved around the outside of the house and when he saw Ms. Jefferson inside the house (allegedly holding a weapon, though that is also questionable) he fired on her thru the window, killing her. There was a handgun in the house, but it is not clear if Ms. Jefferson was holding it at the time she was shot. Ms. Jefferson was not apparently a prohibited person and would have been in legal possession of the weapon if she was in fact in physical possession of it at the time. Ms. Jefferson was minding her young nephew, who was in the house at the time of the shooting. They had been playing a video game.

The police camera footage seems to pretty clearly indicate that Dean screwed the pooch big time. He is being held on a murder charge pending a $200,000 bail. He was on the force 1 1/2 years at the time of the shooting.

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