Black pastors in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday called for federal intervention ...
- Black pastors in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday called for federal intervention to stamp out what they called systemic racism in their city’s police force after a white officer shot dead black resident Atatiana Jefferson in her home.
He called on Fort Worth to enter a federally-binding “consent decree” to overhaul a police force he said led the nation in police-involved shootings, most of them involving black residents. Jefferson, a 28-year-old pre-med graduate, was shot dead by Officer Aaron Dean through a window of her home after a concerned neighbor asked police to investigate why her front doors were open.
Tatum said Jefferson’s death was a familiar situation in a city where police justified excessive force due to “fear for their lives.”
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