Fort Worth, TX – On Saturday, December 5, over 20 protesters showed up at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth, where Fort Work police officer Aaron Dean was on trial for the murder of Atatiana Jefferson.

Jefferson, an African-American woman was shot by Dean, who fired through her window with no warning while she was playing videogames with her nephew. The protest demanded justice for her and condemned the court for not including any African Americans on the jury. The rally was organized by the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression – Dallas.

Rick Majumdar of NAARPR Dallas called for justice for Atatiana and denounced the decision to not include any African Americans on the jury. Majumdar also state that Aaron Dean, when a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, was reprimanded for the sexual assault of another student.

Rick Majumdar stated, “Justice has been denied for three years, how many times has this trial been pushed back, how many times? Six times this case has been pushed back. That's not right!”

Majumdar continued, “We are out here today to say that justice may be delayed but it will not be denied. Aaron Dean must go to jail. We don't want killer cops on these streets.”

Dominique Jones of the Party for Socialism and Liberation condemned white supremacy and the murder of Atatiana.

Xavi Velasquez of La Frontera Nos Cruzo spoke to the connection of the Chicano struggle and the Black struggle in their opposition to racist police terror: “The same kind of racist fucking police that throw Latino and Mexican and all sorts of people from South America into cages, separate families and brutalize them, are the same people who shoot and kill Black people, and, as a Hispanic person, I feel

strongly that we stand together in solidarity.”

“The only way we are going to fix this shit is if we stand together and organize,” Velasquez declared

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Dallas, TX – On September 19, the Dallas Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, together with a number of other groups, held a march for Black lives. The group met at a downtown Dallas park before marching to city hall. According to the group's social media, a main demand of the march was that the Dallas City Council, which is now finalizing the budget, “redirect a significant portion of the police budget to community needs.”

Before the march, the group held a rally in the park. One speaker was DAARPR chair Sydney Loving, who condemned the recent arrests of Black Lives Matter protesters in Colorado. Other speakers included DAARPR co-chair Jennifer Miller, DAARPR organizer Kawana Scott, Black Youth Project 100 organizer Gabrielle Morris and Olinka Green from the Poor People's Campaign.

Kawana Scott discussed Erin Nealey Cox, an assistant U.S. attorney in Dallas who has been named by Trump as one of the leaders of the Department of Justice's so-called ‘antifa taskforce,’ which Scott said is aimed at disrupting the Black lives matter movement.

“We have one message for her,” Scott said, “The people of Dallas and this country want an end to the terror of far-right and white supremacist violence by vigilantes and police; no more political repression.”

About 80 people marched, stopping off on the way to city hall at the federal building, where the protesters expressed their anger at the federal government's repression of Black lives matter protesters.

At one point, the protesters blocked a downtown street for about five minutes. Several motorists exited their cars and yelled at the protesters for blocking the road. But passersby shouted back at the motorists that the protesters had good reason to block the street and between that and the protesters themselves the motorists were shouted down.

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