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The news of a trial date for former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean came as a sign of “new hope,” said Chris Nettles, the city councilmember who has long called for an end to delays in setting Dean’s court date, which will now begin mid-November. Nearly two years ago, Dean, a white officer, shot and killed
Fort Worth Weekly
By Static
Calls for justice for
Atatiana Jefferson have increasingly focused on the lack of a trial date for the man who murdered her nearly two years ago former Fort Worth police officer
Aaron Dean. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew when Dean shot her through the back window of her and her mother’s house.
The resumption of criminal trials for officers who shot and killed unarmed Black civilians in other states (most notably the guilty verdict of now-incarcerated former Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvin) has all but ended any remaining excuses for why Dean should not face trial soon.
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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.