A former Texas police officer was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, who was killed when he shot her through a window of her home in October 2019, prosecutors said.
Fort Worth Police Department officer Aaron York Dean is seen in a booking photo at the Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. October 14, 2019. Tarrant County Jail/Handout via REUTERS.
She was playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew when Dean arrived and crept around the back of the home, gun drawn, according to his arrest warrant and bodycam video. Jefferson's death took place about seven months before the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for over eight minutes. Floyd's death led to global demonstrations against racism and police brutality.Dean's attorneys said he fired in self-defense, but prosecutors had argued there was no evidence of him seeing a gun in Jefferson's hand before firing through the bedroom window.
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