{"id":39294,"date":"2019-10-15T03:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T03:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39294"},"modified":"2019-10-15T03:09:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T03:09:59","slug":"ex-fort-worth-officer-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39294","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Fort Worth officer charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=FortWorthshooting%20%23AaronDean%20%23FortWorthPD%20%23Guyger%20%23Dallaspoliceshooting&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FW-shooting-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39295\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FW-shooting-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FW-shooting-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FW-shooting-1.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>Tarrant County, Texas, authorities have charged a former Fort Worth Police Department officer with murder in connection with the shooting death of a 28-year-old woman who was killed in her home while she was playing video games with her nephew.<\/p>\n<p>Atatania Jefferson was black; Aaron Dean, the former rookie officer charged with her murder, is white.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred over the weekend as police were responding on a &#8220;welfare check.&#8221; A body camera that Dean was wearing reveals that he approached Jefferson&#8217;s home, told her to put up her hands and then less than one second later he fired his pistol at her, killing her.<\/p>\n<p>It makes us all wonder: What in the name of service and protection is going on here?<\/p>\n<p>Dean is now in jail. No bail has been set. He faces a life sentence if convicted of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Will any of this calm the concerns of the African-American community that is still reeling from the death in Dallas of a black man at the hand of a white Dallas PD officer a year ago? Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>The former Dallas cop, Amber Guyger, received a 10-year prison sentence from the jury that convicted her of murder, causing considerable angst from the African-American community about whether justice truly has been served.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a hunch, but my gut tells me that if a jury convicts Aaron Dean of murdering Atatania Jefferson, he will get a significantly stiffer prison sentence.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=FortWorthshooting%20%23AaronDean%20%23FortWorthPD%20%23Guyger%20%23Dallaspoliceshooting&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That didn&#8217;t take long. Tarrant County, Texas, authorities have charged a former Fort Worth Police Department officer with murder in connection with the shooting death of a 28-year-old woman who was killed in her home while she was playing video games with her nephew. 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