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 Momodu Gondo ? Former Baltimore police detective Momodu Gondo  is detailing how  he  and other members of an elite âGun Trace Task Forceâ (GTTF) robbed city residents while on the job.
The robberies  he  described included home invasions and taking citizensâ property while executing search warrants.
According to WBAL   Gondo  confessed to stealing âprobably $100 000â in drugs  cash  and firearms.  He  is one of eight members of the GTTF facing federal charges for the alleged robberies and invasions and theft of overtime as well.  He  agreed to testify against the other members in hopes of receiving a reduced sentence.
 He  testified that  his  partner  Jemell Rayam  was especially focused on home invasions  that â he  had experience running into peopleâs homes to rob  [them].â Gondo  said  they  would use a tracking device to know when the homeowner was away; that is when  they  would go inside:
 Gondo  said Rayam & drug dealer pulled home invasion of drug dealer after  they  used a BPD tracking device to know when target wasn't home â Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) October 25  2017
 Gondo  reportedly admitted to â[filing] false arrest reports to cover stealing money from people.â He and Rayam both testified that they robbed people while on the job. Rayam said  âMost of our robberies were as police officers  so we werenât too worried about getting caught.â
 Gondo  also described how easy it was to manipulate overtime pay. He said that there might be nights where âhalf the squad might be off  the other half working. [But] if they got a gun  [they] all got paid.â

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bill Cosby ? Bill Cosby   seen here at an August court appearance  is set for a retrial on sexual assault charges in April  after his first trial last spring ended in a hung jury. (Matt Rourke/AP)
The prosecutor in the  Bill Cosby  case asked a Pennsylvania judge to allow testimony from 19 alleged prior victims of the entertainer  whose retrial on sex assault charges is set to begin April 2.
The request is the first public indication of the shape and parameters of the prosecution case  and it represents a significant expansion of the government’s effort to portray  Cosby  as a serial predator. When  Cosby  was tried in June  prosecutors sought to include testimony from just 13 women who said they had been assaulted by the comic legend.
But it remains to be seen how this latest move by prosecutors will play out: Last year’s effort by prosecutors to introduce so-called “prior bad acts” testimony was largely unsuccessful  as the judge allowed only one of the 13 to appear at  Cosby ’s trial  which ended with a hung jury.
[What’s next for the Bill Cosby sex-assault case?]
In their request Thursday  prosecutors said that  Cosby  “has spent a lifetime entertaining audiences in front of the camera. Off camera  he has followed and  indeed mastered  a more nefarious script — a victimizing sexual script. . . . To satiate his desire  he has engaged  over the course of a lifetime  in a pattern of serial sexual abuse.”
[‘I’ve run out of clean socks and underwear’: The wait for a verdict in  Bill Cosby’s  trial turns into a test of endurance]
 Cosby  faces felony charges for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand  a former Temple University employee  at  his  suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004.  Cosby   now 80  has denied sexually assaulting women.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Dmitry Medvedev ? President Dmitry Medvedev and his visiting Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov exchanged views on the situation in Kyrgyzstan and bilateral ties during formal talks held here Tuesday  with a number of agreements signed.
 Both Medvedev and Karimov expected a strong government in their neighboring Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan after an unrest that broke out there two weeks ago.
 "Both Russia and Uzbekistan want Kyrgyzstan's government to be strong  its people to develop and prosper  and the state to be modern " said Medvedev as quoted by news agencies.
 In the informal talks with Karimov on Monday  he has already touched upon the issue of Kyrgyzstan  according to the Russian head of state.
 Medvedev said after their meeting Russia was able to engage in economic partnership with the impoverished Kyrgyzstan only after its neighbor established more state institutions.
 "Russia has provided humanitarian assistance to Kyrgyzstan  but full-fledged economic cooperation is only possible if administration institutions are created there " Medvedev said.
 He also called on the interim government to maintain political stability in the country.
 "Essentially  we need to revive the state ... We are hoping that the interim administration of Kyrgyzstan will make all necessary efforts to achieve that " he said.
 Regarding bilateral relations  Medvedev said: "Uzbekistan is Russia's strategic partner. We did and we will broaden all possible ties with the friendly state."

SOLUTION:
Positive