Police officer in Fort Worth shooting charged with murder

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Source: NYTimes

Aaron Dean, the police officer who fatally shot 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson inside her home, was charged with murder on Monday, October 14. Dean, who has since resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department where he worked, responded to a non-emergency call from a concerned neighbor when the incident took place.

The death of Jefferson, a black woman, at the hands of a white police officer becomes the latest in a series of high profile incidents. Some say the incidents are part of a growing pattern of police brutality and violence against black communities across the United States.

Details of the incident

Dean and another officer arrived at Jefferson’s home at approximately 2:25 on October 12, where she was playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. They responded after a concerned neighbor noticed that the front door had been open for several hours and called the non-emergency line to request that the police carry out a welfare check.

Edited body camera footage released by the police department shows that the two officers who responded to the call walked around the perimeter of Jefferson’s property. After circumventing the property, Dean detected the…