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Texas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Black Woman Inside Her Own Home During Welfare Check
Fox News Disputes Story Shep
Smith Was Escorted Out Of
The Building By Security
A white Texas police offi- cer fatally shot a black woman inside her own home early Saturday morning after a neighbor who’d noticed her door was open requested a welfare check, authorities said.
Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 2:25 a.m., when one of the officers re- sponding to an “open struc- ture” call at her home “drew his duty weapon and fired” at a person inside the home near a window whom he’d deemed a threat, the Fort Worth Police Department said in a Saturday statement.
The Tarrant County Med- ical Examiner’s Office con- firmed her identity to The Daily Beast.
Jefferson was reportedly not alone in the house at the time of the incident. One of her neighbors, 62-year-old James Smith, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he’d called the non-emergency po- lice number to report her door being open because he
person standing inside the residence near a window,” authorities said, and started to shout.
“Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” the officer is heard yelling with his gun drawn.
The officer, who has not been identified by the Fort Worth Police Department, then fired a single shot through the window, the statement said.
“Officers entered the resi- dence locating the individual and a firearm and began pro- viding emergency medical care.”
Police did not specify if Jefferson was holding the weapon when she was fatally shot. It also remains unclear if the officers knocked on the door and identified them- selves before examining the perimeter of the house with flashlights.
According to Smith, the officers had parked around the corner from Jefferson’s home, meaning she wouldn’t have been able to see them.
According to NBC News correspondent Jo Ling Kent, sources said the ma- jority of the Fox News staff were shocked by the move and had no idea. It certainly showed on the faces of host Neil Cavuto and correspon- dent John Roberts, who described the news as being hit by a subway train. Cavuto gushed about what a great person Smith is.
Smith has worked at Fox News since it’s inception in 1996 and has served as a de- bunker of conspiracy theories opinion hosts at his own net- work peddled on their shows.
Shep Smith was escorted out of the building by Fox News security. Fox News dis- putes this claim and the tweet it was based on has been deleted.
ATATIANA JEFFERSON
knew her 8-year-old nephew was staying in the house with her. Police have not con- firmed whether the child was also found in the home, how- ever.
Body-camera footage ob- tained by the Star-Telegram shows two officers—both equipped with flashlights— checking the perimeter of Jefferson’s home before walking around the side of the house to open the gate into the backyard. The officer in the backyard “observed a
Trump Loses Appeal To Withhold Financial Records From Democrats
President Donald Trump lost a key court deci- sion Friday in his bid to stop House Democrats from ob- taining his financial records, the latest blow to his author- ity in legal rulings this week.
The 2-1 decision from the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit stems from a case in which Trump sued to block Democrats from sub- poenaing one of his account- ing firms for a vast trove of materials as Congress probes for potential conflicts of in- terest and payments from foreign governments to the president.
“Contrary to the President’s arguments, the Committee possesses authority under both the House Rules and the Constitution to issue the sub-
The ruling by a three-judge appeals court panel upheld a lower-court ruling that House committees can have access to accounting records of Presi- dent Donald Trump’s busi- nesses.
poena,” Judge David Tatel wrote in an opinion joined by Judge Patricia Millett.
Donald Trump Just Promised His Supporters He'd 'Put A Man On The Face Of The Moon’
On Friday night, Presi- dent Donald Trump held a campaign rally at the James E. Sudduth Coliseum in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A nearly full house listened on as Trump covered some of his favorite subjects (the border, the military, and the flag) and attacked all the usual sus- pects (Nancy Pelosi, Joe
Biden, the state of Califor- nia).
And then things got weird. At the end of his 90-minute speech, Trump took a mo- ment to speak on the sanctity of the national motto "In God We Trust" before launching into a rousing history lesson
on the founding of America. "We stand on the shoul-
ders of American patriots who crossed the oceans, set- tled the continent, tamed the wilderness, revolutionized industry, pioneered science, won two world wars, de- feated fascism and commu- nism," Trump said. "And we're gonna defeat socialism andputamanonthefaceof the moon."
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