TASK DEFINITION: Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Rene Boucher ? Paul said  neighbor Rene Boucher  attacked  him  in November while  he  was mowing  his  lawn and wearing headphones.  The Kentucky senator  received six broken ribs and developed pneumonia from the incident  and has described the injuries as a âliving hell.â
 Boucher âs attorney  Matthew Baker  said the retired anesthesiologist shouldnât be jailed  and would pay Paul restitution for his injuries.
Boucher  58  has lived next to  the senator  for years in an upscale subdivision of Bowling Green. The two  though  have disagreed on lawn maintenance.
 Boucher  said  he  saw Paul stacking brush onto an existing pile  and on the day of the incident heâd had âenoughâ â and executed a ârunning tackleâ of Paul. Because  the senator  didnât see  Boucher  coming   he  didnât brace for the impact.
After the incident   Boucher  pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree assault charges.
No date has been set for  Boucher âs sentencing.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Lucian Wintrich ? Lucian Wintrich  a reporter with the Gateway Pundit   was arrested Tuesday night at the University of Connecticut  where  he  was delivering a speech titled "It's OK to Be White."
 Lucian Wintrich   the White House correspondent and Washington  DC  bureau chief for the Gateway Pundit  was at the university to deliver a speech titled "It's OK to Be White." The speech drew a large group of protesters  who verbally sparred with  Wintrich   before the blogger moved into the audience and grabbed a woman  the Hartford Courant reported. A University of Connecticut spokesperson  Stephanie Reitz  confirmed to BuzzFeed News that  Wintrich  was arrested shortly before 9 p.m. and taken into custody by campus police. He was charged with breach of peace and later released on a a $1 000 nonsurety bond  Reitz said. A UConn student was also arrested for allegedly breaking a window as people left the event. The apparent altercation was captured on video from multiple angles.
The moment  about half an hour ago  that  Gateway Pundit blogger Lucian Wintrich  appears to accost a woman during aâ¦ [Link]
According to the Courant  the woman appeared to have grabbed a paper from the podium where  Wintrich  was speaking.
After what appears to be a scuffle with the woman  video shows law enforcement escorting  Wintrich  out of the room with his hands behind his back.
Wintrich did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment Tuesday night. In a post about  Wintrich 's arrest  the Gateway Pundit declared that a "far left mob" had shut down the event. An update to the post stated that Wintrich was "missing" and that "police took him away and we have NO IDEA where they are holding him!" The update was later removed. The arrest came amid a raucous evening at the University of Connecticut. According to Fox 61  Wintrich's speech was met by boos and interruptions. Video from the scene shows the blogger drinking milk â which has been adopted as a symbol on the far right â while a crowd chants "go home  Nazi." After Wintrich's removal  crowds continued to congregate at the scene  and journalists there reported seeing both broken windows and smoke canisters. Campus police later announced that they had arrested one person  University of Connecticut student Sean Miller  for allegedly breaking a window as people left the lecture hall  but are still investigating the origin of the smoke bomb. "This was a very disappointing evening " University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst said in a statement. "Thoughtful  civil discourse should be a hallmark of democratic societies and American universities  and this evening fell well short of that." "We live in a tense and angry time of deep political division. Our hope as educators is that creative leadership and intellectual energy can be an antidote to that sickness  especially on university campuses " Herbst continued. "Between the offensive remarks by the speaker who also appeared to aggressively grab an audience member and the reckless vandalism that followed  that was certainly not the case on our campus tonight. We are better than this."
Jim Hoft and  Lucian Wintrich  at White House Press Room #Pepe @gatewaypundit @lucianwintrich ð¸
In a series of tweets just after midnight Wednesday   Wintrich  informed followers of  his  release. "IM FREE & regained my Twitter " he wrote.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sayfullo Saipov ? Police have identified  Sayfullo Saipov  as the suspect accused of driving a rented pickup truck into a crowd  killing at least eight people and injuring at least 11 more near the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
 Saipov  had worked as an Uber driver in New Jersey  where  he  was living as recently as this summer. Uber confirmed to Fox News that  Saipov  passed the company's background check for drivers  but was now banned from the company. Uber added it has not found any safety reports concerning the terror suspect.
After exiting the vehicle   Saipov  yelled âAllahu akbarâ ("God is great") and waived around weapons believed to be a paintball gun and a BB gun  police said. The suspect was shot twice by police and taken into custody. He remains in the hospital and is expected to survive his wounds.
It's been reported that  Saipov  rented the truck from a Home Depot store in Passaic  N.J.  around 2 p.m. on Tuesday -- an hour or so before the attack occurred.
Authorities discovered that  Saipov  had a Florida driver's license and has been connected to an address in the Tampa area.
A friend  Kobiljon Matkarov  said he met  Saipov  while the two were living in Florida. He described  Saipov  as being âvery friendlyâ and âvery nice.â
Matkarov said he last saw  Saipov  a few months ago when the suspect picked him up from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.  Saipov  had moved to the area in order to seek better work opportunities.
Matkarov told Fox News that he never noticed any unusual behavior from the suspect  let alone that heâd been radicalized. He said that  Saipov  was generally a happy-go-lucky person who seemed to love America.
In a statement to Fox News  Uber said the company was in contact with the FBI and has offered its assistance to the investigation into  Saipov . It added that Uber was reviewing  Saipov 's history with the ride-hailing company.

SOLUTION:
Positive