The police officer who killed unarmed 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home on Sunday has been charged with murder. Marq Claxton joins Lawrence O'Donnell to react to the officer's arrest and what it means for the family's pursuit of justice. Aired on 10/14/19.
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Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson In Her Home Charged With Murder | The Last Word | MSNBC
Enough is enough
They gonna give him 9 years and a Hug for Murder 🤦🏾♂️ you watch
Dont texas have the death penalty enforced? Asking, not too sure.
@Insane Tester
If she is not dealt with in prison, fingers crossed! 🤞
@357CLOUDY Black Feather at no point in time did she exemplify real remorse. She said the words and pushed out some crocodile tears but let’s look at her actions. She didn’t attempt CPR. She was texting with her married boyfriend while Botham Jean was gasping his last breaths, on the 911 call she worried about her job, not about the innocent man she just murdered in his own home. When facing charges she didn’t plea guilty and throw herself at the mercy of the court, she tried to get away with it. She really believed that she deserved to walk in someone’s home and gun them down and just say “oops, my bad”. So let me ask this if I ask forgiveness from God but don’t really mean it will he go by my words or my heart?
I am still stumped as to why the officer didn’t go to the open front door and announce the police are here to check to make sure everything is okay.
@Jesse Stewart
Or, they are doing it intentionally.
Because cops are pigs.
The officer may simply have viewed it as a golden opportunity to shoot a black person. He could claim he felt fear for his personal safety and thus get away with it — as he very well might. After all, they’ve charged him with murder, but how often do juries convict police officers? Almost never.
A white cop charged for killing a black person, I am shocked!
Unfortunately white police officers don’t even know of their bias because they think racism is calling people the “N” word or burning a cross in a black person’s property. But in an effort to not say they are biased, they won’t own up to being fundamentally afraid of black people.
@sonyag1 quite a few have been charged the bad part is that the police are doing the investigation then in many instances you have a white prosecutor, white judge and white jurors you would think that with a preponderance of evidence the outcome would be obvious unfortunately racism is still a problem among some whites
the way I see it
We just had another white cop sentenced for murder for killing a black person. Maybe the tide is turning. Enough is enough.
Why not just knock on the front door wouldn’t that have been the easiest thing to do
Apparently not.
i can’t even imagine, sitting there with a young child and shot by a cop through a window and given no chance. what a waste of a intelligent and beautiful girl. the officer needs to be held accountable for his incompetence. the epitome of shoot first and ask questions later.
Lisa Marie : Imagine being 8 years old and then THAT? “Never trust a cop: You’re not safe in your own home: Relaxing at home is not a thing any more?” Is THAT the Last Word for that kid? . . .
No all officers everywhere need to be held accountable for his behavior and retrained,and if they are training resistant they gotta go,I want hearts and minds for cops,not intelligent cops that are racist and concealing their racism👍
@Patrick Fischer
And background checks too. KKK, NAZIS, etc should not be allowed to be police.
From the time he shouted to the shot was barely a second. He went in with intent to shoot. Human reaction time it’s not enough to hit the safety and shoot in the 0.8 seconds of his light in the window with 0.5 seconds of visual processing and 0.5 seconds reaction plus aiming
Kris Robertson / same thing happened to Tamir Rice.
I’m saying it too,I think the neighbor may have been more involved than an innocent call,there may be collusion
There’s something to said for our British police being unarmed.
Zombobo Smith I hear you 100%🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
Kristi Marie stupid he just said UK, UK! Focus, one topic at a time!!
eltorocal I know🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ rassclart!! It’s like talking to a tape recording. We have a right to carry guns, yayyyyyyy good for you. Just keep ducking when you out and about in the US. You might get hit by an angry misunderstood young white male!!! Good luck🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️
eltorocal don’t answer her back! Please!!!!!
@Kristi Marie The two aren’t mutually exclusive. In the UK she wouldn’t have died BECAUSE of our gun laws.
Out Freaking Standing there is no excuse for what this officer did!!!!
WE SO CALLED BLACK PEOPLE DON’T CALL THEM MF.
you’re really not safe anywhere 🤦🏽♀️
Never was.
Not with lax gun laws… and a Racist “acting” president, and Republican Congress packed with Old WHITE people.
Other first world countries have gun violence under control but then we have America who is one civil war away from reenacting *Mad Max….*
HES LUCKY HE DIDNT HIT THE KID. ANIMAL
How many “cops” have been found to be confederate collectors?
Curious minds would like to know,also Nazi fanatics too,wtf NOT COOl
It’s just guerrilla warfare at this point.
Too many! Probably has a house full of MAGA hats and confederate dinner plates.
This is disgusting heartbreaking sytematic injustice racism ingrained so much in to the fabric of this country, i am speechless, black people are even safe inside their own homes what kind of evil is at work? Hate and racism.
I feel sick watching this.
So you go outside you get shot, you stay home you get shot…WTF America
I bet you that the judge wouldn’t hug the officer in this case …
How on earth do these sissy cops, who jump at their own shadows, get jobs with the police and are allowed to use weapons!
5 dislikes?
Something tells me, they aren’t “liberals.”
More like white racist who don’t deserve the skin their in
When is Trump going to be charged with murder? All the Kurd’s deaths are on his shoulders.
Probably when Obama is charged for murder after the 100 000 bombs he dropped in Syria.