Ice Cube is speaking out against the white Fort Worth, Texas police officer responsible for shooting and killing an unarmed black woman, Atatiana Jefferson, through a window in her home.
In a series of tweets, the N.W.A legend called Officer Aaron Dean an “animal” and demanded murder charges.
“We need Murder charges and prison time for this animal,” he wrote on Monday (October 14).
Once those charges were filed against Dean later that day, Cube then insisted a conviction was in order.
“Now we need a conviction with no hugs from the judge,” he tweeted on Monday (October 14).
According to CNN, Dean was arrested around 6 p.m. CDT on Monday (October 14) and posted bail roughly three hours later. He was being held on a $200,000 bond.
Attorney for Jefferson’s family, Lee Merritt, tweeted,”The family of Atatiana Jefferson is relieved that Aaron Dean has been arrested & charged with murder. We need to see this through to a vigorous prosecution & appropriate sentencing. The City of Fort Worth has much work to do to reform a brutal culture of policing.”
Jefferson’s brother Adarius Carr told CNN, “He did get what I wanted him to get, and this is only the start. There’s no way this is enough. We know this is a good step in the direction where we want to go, but it’s definitely not the end.”
Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus said Dean was served a written administrative complaint on Sunday (October 13), placed on detached duty and stripped of his badge and firearm. He resigned the following day.
“My intent was to meet with him today to terminate his employment with the Fort Worth Police Department,” Kraus said. “However, the officer tendered his resignation this morning before we met.”
Kraus also explained had Dean not resigned, he would have been fired for several policy violations, including the department’s use of force and de-escalation policies, and unprofessional conduct.
Jefferson was killed on Saturday (October 12) while babysitting her 8-year-old nephew. Dean arrived at her home after a neighbor called a non-emergency line to report her home’s front door had been left open.
He will walk.
I feel so sad for you folks over in US. Your goverment got the whole public so paranoid with all the propaganda that people call police just because they see front door left open (????) Then lone women feels threatened just by hearing noises, and brainwashed cop feels like he should be pulling a trigger without ID himself instead of doing his best to solve whole situation in calm maner. So sad. There is no freedom and no happiness in your country. GOD bless you All!
There is no freedom and no happiness? The propaganda machine got u going…we 300 million deep over here…its a whole lot of everything poppon’ out here…you cant speak in absolutes about a country…next time, say “it seems like” or something like that…
Well said ” whole lot of everything” …
What shit hole do you live in? LOL. Your people are either begging to come over here, or copying our shit at best. You’re on a Hip-Hop site, dummy. You’re saying there is no freedom or happiness here, yet you sound like you’ve never been here. There is a reason people from all over sacrifice everything to come out here, jackass. Sounds like YOU are brainwashed by our media. This shit is a sensationalized one off event. Not like the disease, famine and starvation that hits the rest of the world, unfortunately. Seriously. Tell us where you are from. Coward. LOL. Will the tribal leader swat the flies away from the computer long enough for you to log back in? Or are you from some ice rink that we saved you from speaking German at? LOL. I get a jackass from Africa vibe.
All the times people cried wolf on countless BLM hypocrisies. This one is actually murder IMO and it will probably go unchecked due to all of the precious crying of wolf.
she pointed the gun at him. what would u do in that situation. but hey hes gotta be racist right?
Shut the fuck up
There was a gun in the HOUSE not her HAND , that shooting was wrong in so many ways …but your comment is 100 times worse…
if not for peeking in the window and making yourself known as the police maybe you don’t have to point a gun through your window at someone. police dead wrong racist or not.
In these days of race politics and cops, cube needs to drop another Amerikkka and Death certificate album. Also freedom got an AK
Why does this lady have her doors and windows open in the middle of the night? Also, why is she playing video games with a kid at 2am? The whole thing is strange. Why is there a pistol in reach while she is playing video games with a kid? Why is the body cam footage so incredibly edited?
Answer: BECAUSE IT IS HER HOUSE AND SHE CAN DO THAT.
So you find it normal for a grown woman to be playing video games at 2:30 AM with a kid under the age of 13, with a gun within reach, with all of her windows and front and back door wide open. That seems normal to you? Regardless of if she can do it or not? Also, why is all the footage from the police officers camera chopped and edited? You’re stupid defensive answer makes it sound like you think I’m accusing her of some wrongdoing. The whole thing is very strange, it seems like this Crime scene was staged. Who’s the dummy? You’re both morons. It’s called objective thinking.
Reply to answer: you mean because she COULD? LOL. Get your tenses right, dummy.
u must be one of the dumb ones
First of all she’s in her house were she pay her Bill’s she can be in there doing whatever she want .you come in may backyard and don’t pronounce yourself I’m do the same damn thing