Testimony begins Monday at the murder trial of former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean. He shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019 while...
Ten days separated two North Texas watershed moments in 2019 for law enforcement and the Black community.for murdering Botham Jean, an innocent Black man, inside his apartment while she was off-duty but still in uniform. Then, on Oct. 12, white Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean shot and killed 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson through a window at her mother’s home.to determine whether he was justified as a peace officer to shoot Jefferson.
. He remembers an era when a police officer like Guyger or Dean would have never faced murder charges — let alone be convicted and sentenced for killing a Black person. But only 52 have been convicted of a crime, and just seven were found guilty of murder nationwide during the same time period. When an officer is convicted, it is often for a lesser offense such as manslaughter, Stinson said, and the average length of time an officer was sentenced to prison for murder was 18 years.
“When officers do wrong, they have to be held accountable — it’s necessary to uphold community trust,” Geron said. “If the community doesn’t trust officers, any public officials … then that system breaks down.” Dean and another officer opened a fence to walk around the back of the house, according to a lawsuit filed on Zion’s behalf.
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