A former police officer stands trial for shooting and killing a Black woman in her mother’s home back in October 2019. The question before jurors is whether defendant Aaron Dean‘s actions constituted murder. Authorities said victim Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was at her mother’s home playing video games with her nephew when Dean, then an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department, performed a botched welfare check.
James Smith, who was neighbors with the homeowner Yolanda Carr, told the BBC in a 2020 report that he called police to perform a welfare check after his niece and nephew saw that the lights of her home were on and the front door was open on the early morning of Oct. 12, 2019. He thought that it was strange that Carr’s lawnmower and gardening equipment were plugged in. This was not an emergency call. Smith said he expected an officer to just knock on the door and see if his neighbor was fine. He did not know that Carr was in the hospital for her heart condition. Instead, Carr’s 8-year-old grandson and daughter Atatiana were up playing video games.
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Is there any audio?
Why were the cops there anyway did someone call them or they were looking for someone I just know she had to loose her life bc of it ,thy shall not kill someone have to pay for this action
I am so tired of and disgusted by the way police officers treat people (especially people who's skin is a different color that theirs) like they are disposable.
These are human beings!
See? and sheep out here demands everyone to respect cops…
They need to turn the volume up on the mics
Camera gone? How convenient. I'm surprised there is any video footage at all with these "HEROES" in charge.
Long Running cause of stress in this family especially me! I have begged him to stay away from me
Allan Peerce
I’m unsure how a man on the FBI’s most wanted list is not testifying as a man of character and a witness
How many times have you been there? At the home
Sound was HORRIBLE as a viewer
he looks like if anthony todt and joel guy jr. had a baby
Thd coughing and clicking and buzzing are annoying!!!!!!
They need to turn the volume up for the defense so we can hear the questions.
The person hacking their brains out is NOT a juror because even when the jury is out of the room, they continue blowing crud all over the freakin courtroom. It's disgusting and disruptive. We can watch this trial from our bed!🤬
You can't watch this !!!! Audio : 🤬🤮
From inside that poor woman's window, all she could see was dark. Lights on in the room she was standing in would make the night seen even blacker. No way she could see him UNTIL the officer shines a light in her face. THERE IS NO WAY SHE COULD HAVE KNOWN HE WAS A POLICE OFFICER BECAUSE HE DID NOT IDENTIFY NOR COULD SHE SEE HIM IN FULL UNIFORM BECAUSE SHE WAS BEING BLINDED.
Did I miss something? Was the gun photographed beside the deceased before it was moved?
They tell everyone to talk in the microphone but they don’t do it themselves the idiots
Bad cops are bad
Hahaha jok
Boy, your audio stinks! Not even watchable!
Such a tragic situation. Other cases that obvious shot when shouldn’t have. In this case he saw a gun. I understand why she had gun I understand why he shot. Think it will come down to if they announced themselves as police.
Who is his defense attorney, well he should be fired, what a horrible lawyer.!