This was a bad shoot without a doubt. You never shoot someone IN THEIR OWN HOME without warning.
But is was not race-related... at all. So that notion needs to be squashed.
Yep. Unless a cop has 4 holes in him he can’t really be sure that his life is in danger and even then, it might just be an accident so in any and all cases, cops have no reasonable case for self-defense.
These decisions just keep getting worse and worse. In Dean’s case even HIS attorneys didn’t understand the concept of self-defense. If you’re a cop, just get out now. If you decide to stick around then it’s only a matter of time before they find a reason to hang you by the boys.
“Every life matters. Especially Black lives,” Nettles said.“
“Dean testified during trial he thought Jefferson’s house was being burglarized. Dean and his partner went into Jefferson’s backyard, saw Jefferson holding a gun through the window and shot in self-defense, he said.
The prosecution argued there’s no evidence Dean saw that gun, and Jefferson had the right to pick up a gun and defend her home.”
So Dean testified that he saw Jefferson holding a gun. The prosecution agued there was no evidence Dean “saw” the gun that Jefferson had and had the right to pick up and defend her home.
So, there’s no proof that Dean saw Jefferson holding the gun, except the fact that Jefferson was holding the gun that she had the right to pick up?
And, Dean gets twelve years for not being able prove he saw what he saw? Even though the prosecution validated what Dean said he saw by their own statements?
It’s more likely, he was convicted for shooting a black person while being white. Maybe 911 centers should start clarifying the race of the callers so they can dispatch police officers of the appropriate race.
Just to be safe . . .
Dean’s actions met the applicable elements of self defense, but he had incompetent lawyers and an ignorant judge who permitted irrelevant testimony and misread the law to the jury. The jury acquitted Dean of murder, and by extension, he also should have been not guilty of manslaughter.
Dean might be an asshole, but he should be a free man right now. Hopefully he has competent representation on appeal. The judge’s errors should be sufficient for an overturning of the conviction.
A thug with a badge goes to jail where they belong.
Too bad, so sad.
Bad shoot should get someone the rest of their life in general pop.
Good, they should have buried him under the prison.
Any white person who becomes a cop is a fool. Esepcially trying to police black neighborhoods. Leave blacks to their own devices. They created the living conditions in their neighborhoods.
The family of the victim continually tried to frame this as an incident where the officer maliciously intended to murder her in cold blood. It’s a shame that she died. It was likely a bad shoot. Those things being said, I don’t believe for a second that the officer wanted her dead.
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I thought the Judge did the sentencing.