Black Lives Still Matter, Con't

Four seconds.

That's how long Atatiana Jefferson lived after a Fort Worth PD officer entered Jefferson's property, saw her through a window, and shot her after a neighbor called police to check on her because Jefferson had left the door open.

Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, 28, was killed in a bedroom at the home at around 2:30 a.m., according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.

In a statement, the Fort Worth Police Department said that officers from its central division responded to a call at 2:25 a.m. and searched the perimeter of the house on the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue.

One officer, after seeing someone through the window of the home, drew his weapon and fired one shot, killing the woman.

“The individual, a black female, who resides at the residence succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced deceased on the scene,” read the Fort Worth PD’s statement. “The officer, a white male who has been with the department since April of 2018, has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome [of] the critical police incident investigation.”

An officer handling public relations for the department did not immediately return a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.

In its statement, Fort Worth police said that after the shooting, officers entered the residence to find the resident and a firearm, and began administering emergency care. Texas is an open carry state.

Fort Worth PD released body camera footage from the incident taken from the angle of the officer who fired the shot. In it, the officer can be seen taking notice of an open door at the residence — which had its lights on — and then walking around the home’s perimeter with a colleague. He then opens a gate, and walks to a darker part of the yard while holding a flashlight.

Within seconds of walking though the gate, the officer peers through a window, where he presumably sees a person. He quickly raises his flashlight in one hand, gun in another. “Put your hands up, show me your hands,” he shouts before firing a shot — all in less than four seconds.

The body cam footage released by police also includes photos of a gun found inside the house. It's unclear if Jefferson was near the weapon when she was shot by the officer.

And here we're supposed to feel bad for the officer, who now has to live the rest of his life with the fact he murdered a black woman in cold blood.  We'll be told that the officer thought his life was at risk and that he had to kill Jefferson, because if you are black in America, you only draw breath because a police officer hasn't decided you are a threat yet.

Best part is Jefferson owned a firearm in her own home in an open carry state, but we all know open carry only applies to white people in Texas.  Anyone else gets butchered. Second Amendment rights only apply to those who looked like the founders of this "great" country, after all.

I'm so tired of this.  They kill us in our own homes now and get away with it 99% of the time. And if we try to defend ourselves, if we pretend even for a moment that we have the same rights as white people in this country, we pay for that fallacy with our lives.

I'm tired