"... The boy said she had the handgun raised and pointed toward the window. This is when Jefferson was shot. ..."
Exactly. She pointed a loaded gun at a police officer who was in response to an open structure call, not a welfare check, at 2:30AM on a weekend night in the highest crime area of Fort Worth. Period.
In the body camera footage there is another officer's back captured on film moments before the shot was fired. The officer fired in defense of self and the other officer.
It's tragic, but this is not a crime. The charge of murder is political. Imo this interim chief can count the hours until he is forced into retirement. He was wrong to say the still frame of the gun shouldn't have been released. He was wrong to rush to judgment and he does not have his officers backs, now they don't have his.[/B]
1. Would you consider it tragic but not a crime if Ms. Johnson, blinded by a flashlight being beamed at her from outside, in the middle of the night, by an unidentified intruder in her back yard, had shot & killed Dean to protect herself and her scared 8 year old nephew?
2. There isn't anything political about a chief insisting upon accountability after seeing with his own eyes a video of one of his cops violating multiple LE procedures & unjustifiably using lethal force.
"Having his officers' back" is exactly what he was doing. Quick on the draw & disregard for the law cops endanger the lives of their fellow officers as well as civilians.
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