The former Texas police officer repeatedly acknowledged his actions were 'bad police work' on the fourth day of his trial in the killing the 28-year-old woman.
said Atatiana Jefferson had the gun"pointed directly at me" but repeatedly acknowledged his actions were"bad police work" on the fourth day of his trial in the killing the 28-year-old woman. It was Dean's first public statement in the more than three years since the white Fort Worth officer shot Jefferson while responding to a call about an open front door.
Running through events, prosecutors repeatedly asked if his actions were"more bad police work." Again and again, Dean said,"yes." Dean shot Jefferson after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson's home was open. She had been playing video games that night with her nephew and it emerged at trial that they left the doors open to vent smoke from hamburgers the boy burnt.
Dean testified Monday that his view of the darkened backyard was clearer than what's shown in his body-camera footage but said that he could not make out the race or sex of the person in the window. He said he opened fire after seeing a gun"very close" and that he was briefly blinded by his muzzle flash.
Darch's back was to the window when Dean shot, but she said he never mentioned seeing a gun before he pulled the trigger and didn't say anything about the weapon as they rushed in to search the house.
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