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Article # 1: Fort Worth Police Have More Violence to Answer For, Residents Say:

· "There was Henry Newson, a black man who had just been discharged from the hospital and was waiting for a ride home when two officers working security questioned why he was there. He refused to leave, and a white officer punched him in the face" (Fernandez, Mervosh & Bogel-Burroughs, 2019).

· "There was Craigory Adams, also black, who knocked on his neighbor’s door late one night carrying a barbecue fork, to keep stray dogs away, he said, and the neighbor called the police. A white officer pointed a shotgun at Mr. Adams but said he wasn’t meaning to fire it, he did, striking Mr. Adams in the arm” (Fernandez, Mervosh & Bogel-Burroughs, 2019).

· "In the largely black and Hispanic neighborhood in southeast Fort Worth where Ms. Jefferson lived, and in others nearby, many residents recalled times when they had tried calling the police — and ended up sorry that they did, all been brought up again in the days since Ms. Jefferson, a 28-year-old black woman, was shot and killed in her bedroom this month by a white police officer who was standing outside her window" (Fernandez,

· “This is not an isolated incident,” said the Rev. Kyev Tatum, who is part of a coalition asking the Justice Department to investigate “over-aggressive policing” in Fort Worth’s communities of color. “This is historic and it is systemic, and we understand that racism is at the heart of this” (Fernandez, Mervosh & Bogel-Burroughs, 2019).

· "In Dallas, just 30 miles east of Fort Worth, a similar case played out tragically over the past year: A white off-duty police officer was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier this month after she mistakenly entered the apartment of a black neighbor, Botham Shem Jean, and shot him to death while he was watching television" (Fernandez, Mervosh &

· “In an interview, Mayor Price said she had heard from some black residents who said they feared the police so much that they would no longer call them for help. She was deeply worried by that sentiment. But she flatly rejected the idea that the city’s white leadership was not engaged with black residents" (Fernandez, Mervosh & Bogel-

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Article # 2: US: White Ex-Officer Gets 12 Years in Shooting of Naked Black Man

· "A former police officer in the US state of Georgia who was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison"  ("US:

· "A badge, a uniform, a gun are not a license to shoot and kill with impunity, the lawyer said. Defense lawyer Amanda Clark Palmer said in an email after the hearing that while the sentence was higher than they wanted, 'we cannot say it is an unfair sentence, and we appreciate [the judge's] thoughtfulness'" ("US:

· "Olsen exited his car and yelled, "Stop! Stop!" Hill did not stop and Olsen shot him twice, witnesses said. Prosecutors told jurors Olsen unreasonably and unnecessarily used deadly force to deal with the unarmed, naked man who was suffering a mental health crisis. ("US: White ex-officer gets 12 years in shooting of naked black man", 2019).

· “ Defense attorneys argued Olsen had limited information about the situation, was scared to death, had only seconds to make a tough decision, and acted in self-defense" ("US:

· Article # 3: Video Shows Unarmed Texas Man with Pants down Before Fatal Police Shooting

· "Deputy Brewer had exited his car, confronted a man in the street whose pants were around his ankles, and fatally shot him once in the chest. It is the latest example of an officer killing an unarmed black person" (Haag, 2018).

· "In the video, Deputy Brewer, who is black, stops his car in the video, Deputy Brewer, who is black, stops his car behind two men having an altercation, with shoving, in the street. The deputy can be heard yelling at Danny Ray Thomas, the man whose pants were down, as he walks toward the car. ‘Get down, man! Get on the ground,’ the deputy screams repeatedly, before, out of the camera’s view, a single gunshot rings out. Mr. Thomas, 34, was pronounced dead at a hospital" (Haag, 2018).

· "Sheriff Gonzalez said that Deputy Brewer was equipped with a Taser, which he did not use, the sheriff said that deputies had been trained on the use of nonlethal force, including during encounters with people who may have a mental illness" (Haag, 2018).

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Article # 4: US: White Officer Charged With Murder in Shooting of Black Woman

· "A white police officer who shot and killed an African American woman in her Fort Worth, Texas, home in the presence of her eight-year-old nephew was charged with murder on Monday after resigning from the force" ("US: White officer charged with murder in the shooting of black woman", 2019).

· "According to the watchdog group The Sentencing Project, African American men are six times more likely to be arrested than white men" ("US: White officer charged with murder in the shooting of black woman", 2019).

· "These disparities, particularly the killing of African Americans by police, has prompted the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, a popular civil rights campaign aimed at ending police violence and dismantling structural racism" ("US: White officer charged with murder in the shooting of black woman", 2019).

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Article # 5: Analysis: 20 Percent of People Shot By Texas Police Were Unarmed

· "Texas police reported shooting 159 people in the first year that the state tracked such cases under a ground-breaking new law.

· “Austin and Fort Worth each saw five of those shootings — compared with eight apiece in San Antonio and Dallas and 31 in Houston" (Moravec, 2018).

· Woog said. “Without this evidence, the public discussion nearby individuals dying in police arrest, especially black people has been mostly anecdotal.”

· "In 2015, Rep. Eric Johnson, an African-American Democrat from Dallas, was so troubled by the debate over disproportionate use of force against minorities that he championed a measure to gather more information regarding all officers who are involved in shootings, both non-fatal and fatal" (Moravec, 2018).

References

Fernandez, M., Mervosh, S., & Bogel-Burroughs, N. (2019). Fort Worth Police Have More Violence to Answer For, Residents Say. Retrieved 29 April 2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/us/fort-worth-shooting-jefferson-dean.html

US: White ex-officer gets 12 years in shooting of naked black man. (2019). Retrieved 29 April 2020, from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/white-officer-12-years-shooting-naked-black-man-191101220346880.html

Haag, M. (2018). Video Shows Unarmed Texas Man With Pants Down Before Fatal Police Shooting. Retrieved 29 April 2020, from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/danny-ray-thomas-houston-police-shooting.html

US: White officer charged with murder in shooting of black woman. (2019). Retrieved 29 April 2020, from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/texas-officer-resigns-fatally-shooting-black-woman-191014190505562.html

Moravec, E. (2018). Analysis: 20 percent of people shot by Texas police were unarmed. Retrieved 30 April 2020, from https://www.statesman.com/news/20160926/analysis-20-percent-of-people-shot-by-texas-police-were-unarmed