Everything we know about the Atatiana Jefferson shooting
Body-cam footage released by the Fort Worth Police Department. Photo: Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock/Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock A black woman was shot and killed by a white cop in her own home in Fort Worth, Texas, after a neighbor asked police to perform a welfare check on the residence.
Why were cops called to Atatiana Jefferson’s home? According to CNN, a neighbor called a non-emergency police number after he noticed that Jefferson’s front door was open and the lights were on. Body-cam footage released from the Fort Worth Police Department shows the officers searching the outside perimeter of the house. One of them approaches a closed window and shouts, “Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” before opening fire less than a second later.
Who was the officer who shot Jefferson? “Perceiving a threat the officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot striking the person inside the residence,” the department said in a statement. The officer was not named, but was described as a white male who had been with the department since April 2018. He will be placed on administrative leave pending the investigation and it is unclear whether he will face charges.
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