Aaron Dean, a white police officer in Texas, was charged with murder when he shot and killed a 28-year-old black woman last weekend.

The incident occurred when the victim was Atatiana Jefferson playing video games at home in Fort Worth, the 5th largest city in Texas, along with his little nephew. Hearing an outside noise, she approached the window to see what happened when she was shot by the police.

"Realizing the threat, an officer pulled a gun and shot at the object," Fort Worth police said with a faded image of a gun found in the Jefferson home, but the mayor of Fort Worth insisted that the weapon this "is not relevant". The footage recorded by the camera mounted on police officer Dean said, he said to the victim: "Raise your hand, show me what your hand has", then the gunfire rang out.

"As a grandmother, an older sister, an aunt, I could not have imagined anything worse and I am very sorry," Mayor Fort Worth Betsy Price said at a news conference on October 14 about his death. of Jefferson citizens. She added that Dean's police have been arrested and face murder.

The incident happened less than two weeks after a white policewoman was jailed for killing a black man in a man's apartment in Dallas, sparking a wave of outrage in the United States. .

Acting Fort Worth police chief Ed Kraus promised to conduct a "thorough, transparent and prompt investigation" of the incident. "My intention today is to meet Dean to end his contract with the Fort Worth Police Department. However, this employee resigned this morning, before we met," Kraus said. The brother of the Jefferson victim asked the authorities to strictly handle the incident.