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Texas Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Atatiana Jefferson In Her Home Indicted On Murder Charge
Here’s a case of favoritism that’ll make everyone smile. Leah Amy, a Virgin Atlantic flight attendant shared the sweet story of her new “fa- vorite” passengers on Face- book. She wrote about a “kindhearted man” and the elderly woman he selflessly swapped seats with, so she could enjoy his first-class perks. The post that has since gone viral with over 4,100 likes and 1,300 shares.
Leah has met countless celebrities through her work as a flight attendant, but she said these two, whom she identified as Jack and Vio- let, were her new “favorite passengers EVER!”
Here’s a case of favoritism that’ll make everyone smile. Leah Amy, a Virgin Atlantic flight attendant shared the sweet story of her new “fa- vorite” passengers on Face- book. She wrote about a “kindhearted man” and the elderly woman he selflessly swapped seats with, so she could enjoy his first-class
JACK AND VIOLET
perks. The post that has since gone viral with over 4,100 likes and 1,300 shares.
Leah has met countless celebrities through her work as a flight attendant, but she said these two, whom she identified as Jack and Violet, were her new “favorite pas- sengers EVER!”
According to the re- porters, the pair struck up an “instant friendship” at the unnamed airport they were traveling from when Jack de- cided that Violet would “get
more” out of his prime seat to on their flight to New York than he would.
It was reportedly the 88- year-old’s “dream” to sit at the front of the plane, Leah added, and the thoughtful traveler was inspired to make it come true “out of the kind- ness of his own heart.”
After boarding, Jack traded his first-class seat for Violet’s economy seat, which was “directly next to the toi- lets.”
“[Jack] sat on the row of seats directly next to the economy toilets and never made a peep or asked for anything the rest of the flight,” Leah explained. “No fuss, no attention, literally did it out of the kindness of his own heart, no one asked him to.”
The flight attendant wrote that the 88-year-old woman travels to New York to visit her daughter, and the recent trip was the first in a while due to a knee replace- ment.
In this May 13 photo, Officer Daniel Pantaleo leaves his house in Staten Island.
Plane Passenger Gives First-Class Seat To 88-Year-Old Woman, Makes Her ‘Dream’ Come True
A Tarrant County grand jury on Friday indicted for- mer Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, who is accused of killing Atatiana Jeffer- son.
Grand jurors indicted Dean, 35, of Arlington, on a charge of murder.
Dean was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson in October, hours after he resigned. The former officer has been free on $200,000 bail, which he posted shortly after he was ar- rested.
Dean’s attorney, Jim Lane of Fort Worth, and prosecutors declined to com- ment on Friday because a gag order has been issued in the case.
“Marquis Jefferson, the father of Atatiana Jeffer- son, died 28 days after her death on Nov. 9th of a broken heart,” said Bruce Carter, a spokesman for the Jefferson family, in a Friday email. “His heart was broken when the bullet of Aaron Dean killed his only child. The Jefferson family believes Mr. Jeffer- son was killed by the same bullet that killed his daugh- ter.”
Dean, who is white, shot and killed Jefferson, a 28- year-old black woman, inside her home on Oct. 12 while re- sponding to a call from a neighbor about doors at the house being open, police said.
Jefferson was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew in their home, ac- cording to an attorney her rel- atives hired to represent them, when she heard a noise outside and looked out of her window.
Body camera images of the shooting show two officers using flashlights to check the perimeter of the house, in- specting two doors that are open with closed screen doors. The officers then go through the yard to the back of the house, where Dean ap- pears to see a figure through a dark window, and he quickly twists his body to the left.
“Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” he shouts through the window, his gun drawn. He then immediately fires a single shot through the window, killing Jefferson, the video shows. Dean did not identify himself as an of- ficer, according to the video.
The arrest warrant for Dean says that Jefferson got a gun out of her purse after she heard noises outside her window. Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price has said that the gun was irrelevant to the investigation. In Texas, homeowners have a right to be armed on their own prop- erty, Price said.
Dean, who had served about 18 months with the Fort Worth Police Depart- ment, resigned two days after the killing.
Man Arrested After Posting YouTube Videos About Burning Black People
Florida man is facing fed- eral charges after allegedly posting a series of YouTube videos threatening Christians and to “burn Black people” and “Black soldiers,” among other threats.
Authorities say Mostafa Hussaini, 34, posted at least a dozen YouTube videos from mid-October to early Decem- ber, CBS News reports.
In the videos, he goes by the name Vam Vima, CBS News reports.
A criminal complaint charges Hussaini with transmitting threatening communications, according to CBS News reports.
According to the com- plaint, Hussaini uploaded a video showing him setting a living parakeet on fire before threatening Christians.
“I don’t like Blacks I don’t know any Blacks I can not
MOSTAFA HUSSAINI
even name any Blacks I don’t know any Black people,” he says in a video.
“Black people uses these beaches when you speak of Black, you look where your stuff is cuz they steal your stuff they’re thieves,” he says in another video.
In yet another video, ti- tled “Soldier Burns, Fanta- sizing Burning Enemy,” he says he wants to “burn Black
people,” CBS News reports. “Imagine burning some Black soldiers. They’re going to look very black after I’m done burning them. I convert thousands of millions of that so there will be lots of burn- ing,” he says, CBS News re-
ports.
On Dec. 9, Hussaini al-
legedly posted another video recorded at Nova Southeast- ern University in Davie, Florida, CBS News reports. “I’m a businessman, I have no respect for degree,” he says in the video.
“I’ve already been con- tacted by security. Security alerted that I’m here. They don’t like me. Why don’t you pay me to teach a lesson here?” he also said in the video, standing outside of the Performing Arts Center at the University where he said he’d been thrown out.
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