Fort Worth Weekly
By Edward Brown
Amber Carr (left) said her son Zion (second from left) was traumatized by witnessing her aunt’s murder.
Edward Brown
A groundswell of activists and leaders of grassroot groups is preparing a multifaceted and sustained effort for justice. They want to push local and state officials to set a trial for Aaron Dean. The former Fort Worth police officer shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson through her back window in late 2019 after Jefferson’s neighbor called a non-emergency line to report an open door at the home that Jefferson shared with her mother.
Dean remains free on bail, and Judge David Hagerman, whose docket is slated to handle the trial, has tentatively but not officially set August as the trial date. Jefferson’s sister, Amber Carr, said the local criminal justice system cares nothing for the suffering caused by Dean and seemingly endless legal delays.
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Cavile Place, an iconic public housing development in southeast Fort Worth, is being torn down as part of a neighborhood revitalization effort.
Fort Worth is in the middle of demolishing a landmark: the Cavile Place public housing development.
Commonly known as the Stop Six projects, countless people called these apartments home from the 1950s all the way to June of last year.
The city is tearing down the projects to make way for new housing as part of an effort to revitalize Stop Six.
Cavile Place means a lot to many of the people that used to live there so much so that the city s housing authority will preserve some of the old red bricks to give out as keepsakes, according to a spokesperson.
Fort Worth Weekly
By STEVEN MONACELLI AND EDWARD BROWN -
Photo by Steven Monacelli.
The fate of a community fridge program is in jeopardy due to a 64-year-old law and city zoning codes.
“The City of Fort Worth is looking to place restrictions on us that would make the fridge [essentially] inaccessible to the folks who need it,” said the Funkytown Fridge team in a recent Instagram post.
The 1956 law is intended to protect children from becoming locked inside refrigerators, and city codes limit where the large storage boxes can be placed.
Richardson: “The whole point is to break down capitalism and give people their power back by letting them know there is a way to find your power to spark a revolution.”