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].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Al Thomas ? Police Chief Al Thomas â retirement was effective immediately  the city said in a statement. The University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville.
âNothing in my career has brought me more pride than serving as the police chief for the City of Charlottesville â  Thomas  said in the statement  without providing a reason for his departure.
FILE PHOTO:  Charlottesville Chief of Police Al Thomas  (L) and Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones listen to speakers during a public forum hosted by the Department of Justice Community Relations Service after a rally by far-right demonstrators led to the death of a counter protester in Charlottesville  Virginia  U.S.  August 27  2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Heaphyâs report on the violence said  Thomas  sought to limit information requested by an investigation team and deleted text messages relevant to the review.  Thomas  denied efforts to hide information  the report added.
Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones on Monday called  Thomas  âa man of integrityâ and said the city will appoint an interim police chief within the next week.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Flynn ? At some point before President Trumpâs inauguration  disgraced national security adviser Michael Flynn assured an ex-business partner that economic sanctions on Russia would be âripped upâ as soon as the new administration entered the White House  according to documents made public Wednesday.
 Flynn  made the promise to Alex Copson  a managing partner of a Russia-connected energy company  a whistleblower told Rep. Elijah Cummings this summer.
Trump calls  Flynn  guilty plea âa shame â blames FBI  Hillary
The unnamed whistleblowerâs claims pose the strongest evidence yet that the nascent Trump White House was looking to rescind sanctions against Russia and also suggests that  Flynn  could have had a personal financial stake in the matter.
 Flynn   who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last week  worked together with Copsonâs company  ACU Strategic Partners  until June 2016. Their work together involved a deal with the Russian government to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East.
Copson apparently told the whistleblower during an Inauguration Day event in Washington  D.C. that  Flynn  had just texted him that the power plant venture was âgood to go.â
Rep. Elijah Cummings called on the House Oversight Committee to issue subpoenas for White House records pertaining to  Flynn 's contacts with Copson. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
 Flynn âs lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily News.
 Flynn  was fired less than a month into  his  tenure as national security adviser after it became clear that  he  had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about  his  contacts with a Russian diplomat. On Friday   Flynn  became the first current or former Trump administration official to agree to cooperate with special prosecutor Robert Muellerâs investigators.
âThese grave allegations compel a full  credible and bipartisan congressional investigation â Cummings wrote  adding that  Flynn  appears to have "sought to manipulate the course of international nuclear policy for the financial gain of  his  former business partners."
[A]: Negative


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Alexander Nix ? According to the Journal  Trump donor Rebekah Mercer on Aug. 26  2016  passed along to the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica   Alexander Nix   an email she'd gotten from someone she met at a campaign event for then-GOP presidential primary contender Sen. Ted Cruz  R-Texas.
 Nix  replied that  he 'd already reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in June 2016 to ask  him  to share Clinton-related emails so the company could aid in disseminating them â and Assange turned  him  down  the Journal reported.
In an email that copied Peter Schweizer  who co-founded the Government Accountability Institute with Trump adviser Steve Bannon in 2012   Nix  added that  he  believed Schweizer was working on creating an index of the Clinton-related emails  the Journal reported.  Nix  said  he  would order a team to "assess the feasibility of expanding this work."
 Nix 's outreach to Assange came about a month before WikiLeaks began releasing its trove of emails in July 2016  which included messages stolen from the account of Clinton's campaign chairman  John Podesta  and from the Democratic National Committee. Intelligence agencies later determined the Clinton-related emails had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to WikiLeaks  which WikiLeaks has denied.
[A]:
Neutral