Posted on 12/21/2022 7:02:45 AM PST by Red Badger
Dean was convicted of manslaughter for shooting and killing Atatiana Jefferson in her home in 2019. He was on duty as a police officer at the time.
Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison for the manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson.
Dean shot Jefferson through her bedroom window while responding to a call about open doors at her home. The last part of his sentence resonates with the date of that call: Oct. 12, 2019.
If sentenced to 10 years or less, Dean would have been eligible for probation. He will be eligible for parole after he's served half his sentence.
The jury deliberated Dean's sentence over two days. After the judge announced the sentence on Tuesday, Jefferson's family members took the stand to address Dean themselves.
Ashley Carr, Jefferson's sister, told Dean she never looked forward to talking to him. She felt a tinge of jealousy seeing his family there with him, she said.
"I have loathed the idea of you with your family during the holiday seasons for the last three years. Today, I have just arrived at pity," she said.
Dean will never "truly repent," Carr said.
"I pity you for your ignorance. You do not know enough to be ashamed," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at keranews.org ...
When inside at night with the lights on, a person cannot see outside. The windows reflect and appear black.
Someone inside, however, is in plain, illuminated view from the outside.
A sitting duck, so to speak.
Some states the jury decides, and sometimes it’s a different jury than the trial jury...............
It’s legal to carry a firearm in Texas and just because someone has a firearm in their hand is not justification for the police to kill them. Especially in their own home.
And if the police can’t figure this out then they need to turn in their badges and guns and go find a job where they’re not a threat to law abiding citizens.
As to his claim of self defense let’s turn this around:
Black woman home alone sees someone aiming a weapon at her through her window. She shoots, she scores.
Is that self defense? If yes then the cop cannot claim self defense.
And if the police can’t figure this out then they need to turn in their badges and guns and go find a job where they’re not a threat to law abiding citizens.
As to his claim of self defense let’s turn this around:
Black woman home alone sees someone aiming a weapon at her through her window. She shoots, she scores.
Is that self defense? If yes then the cop cannot claim self defense.
Simply having a firearm in your hand creates a reasonable threat of imminent deadly force and can easily be justification to use deadly force in self-defense. That threat increases when the weapon is aimed in your direction, as happened with Dean.
The woman, likewise, would have a reasonable perception of an imminent deadly threat and she likely would have been justified in shooting Dean especially if she was able to articulate that she saw him draw a weapon. The justification for use of deadly force by one party in an engagement such as this DOES NOT invalidate the same justification for the other party.
Many of us here, I suspect, would arm ourselves if we heard someone sneaking around our yard at night. That's reasonable. In this case it resulted in a tragic situation but not a situation that was reckless or intentional.
She is in her house. He is in her yard. He can have a magical badge and a magical costume and it still does not make it self defense when he goes into her yard and shoots her.
There is a reason he was in her yard and it was a perfectly legitimate reason. He was there on a call and you're making it sound like he just wandered by and started peeking in her window. Dean did nothing illegal, nothing reckless and nothing unreasonable under the circumstances.
Sorry, I don’t worship flawed people with shiny badges.
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