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 Hung Phuoc Nguyen ? Objectively   the sketch is bad . The thick lines look like an inverted triangle with hair   or a strawberry wearing a tiny cap . The two dot eyes are inexplicably paired with horizontal lines and no eyebrows . There is only one ear . And yet   the Lancaster   Pa .  police say they have identified a suspect who they say pretended to be a farmers market worker before fleeing with cash Jan . 30   thanks to a witness who drew a picture from memory . The sketch was " amateurish and cartoonish  " local police said Wednesday in a Facebook post . But the sketch   along with a physical description of the thief   reminded at least one officer of an encounter with  Hung Phuoc Nguyen   44  . Police then showed the witness photos of possible suspects   including  Nguyen  . The witness identified  Nguyen    and police issued a warrant for two counts of theft . Officer William Hickey of the Lancaster police told The Washington Post on Thursday that he did not know whether  Nguyen  was apprehended . The police have insisted that the sketch was a serious effort to find the suspect . " We released all of those details together in our police log in the hope that someone recognizes the suspect  " Lancaster city police said in a Facebook post   according to Lancaster Online . " This was not done in jest ." The outlet described Nguyen as homeless . In an age of omnipresent surveillance video   the police sketch quietly endures . More departments are opting for software that can spit out composite photos   but departments will sometimes share artists with nearby cities that have modest personnel budgets . " Technology and machinery is cold  " Wayne Promisel   a detective with the Loudoun County Sheriff ' s Office in Virginia and a former Fairfax County police detective   told The Washington Post in 2013 . " It is also missing the ability to ask the questions in a certain way in an interview while having a sense of compassion " for victims . Speaking about the witness   Hickey said : " We appreciated their effort and continued cooperation . People like that make our job easier [ and ] more enjoyable ." But there are currently no plans to offer the witness a position as a sketch artist   he said .

SOLUTION: Negative

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 Donald J. Trump ? But  President Donald J. Trump  hardly looked like a grand wizard a week ago today. On January 8   he  hosted Alveda King  the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Isaac Newton Farris Jr.  Dr. King’s nephew  and Bruce Levell of the National Diversity Coalition for  Trump . All three of  Trump ’s guests are black.
“I did about 200 cataract surgeries with a group of surgeons in Haiti and the same in Central America ” Senator Paul  an ophthalmologist  said on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday. “And when we asked  Donald J. Trump  as a private citizen to support those trips   he  was a large financial backer of both medical mission trips.” Paul continued: “I think it’s unfair then to sort of all of a sudden paint him  ‘Oh well   he ’s a racist ’ when I know  for a fact  that  he  cares very deeply about the people in Haiti because  he  helped finance a trip where we were able to get vision back for 200 people in Haiti.”
Whatever  Trump  said or didn’t say  the reaction has been beyond incendiary  with the words “racist” and “racism” erupting like volcanos around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
 Trump’s  alleged language  if uttered  was unfortunate  vulgar  and unpresidential  although  he  hardly would have been the first chief executive to use profanity in office.  His  supposed words apparently were aimed at sh**hole nations  rather than sh**hole people. The latter would have been inexcusable.
It is widely understood that certain nations are garden spots  and others are not. It is fair to say that Haiti  El Salvador  and a tragically high number of African countries are non-garden spots. It also is perfectly appropriate to ask whether America would be better off with immigrants from such impoverished and embattled places or from prosperous nations  such as Norway  which  Trump  reportedly mentioned. It likely was top of mind  given Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg’s visit and joint press conference with him on Wednesday.
Whatever he stated or didn’t   President Trump  should learn these lessons from this experience  and repeat them to  himself  daily:
“Every word I say matters.” This is true in public  in private  and around the clock  until  he  leaves the White House and begins work on the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.
 Trump  should think of  himself  as Jim Carrey in the 1998 film The Truman Show. Except when  he  is in bed   Trump  should behave as if every breath  he  takes were being broadcast live around the globe.
 Trump  needs to remember that Democrats are not  his  pals. They almost universally crave  his  failure  resist  his  program  and want to yank  him  from office — never mind the 304 votes  he  legitimately won in the Electoral College. Anything  he  says in front of Democrats (and even some Never  Trump  Republicans  alas) can and will be used against  him  in the court of public opinion.  Senator Durbin  should be condemned for publicizing (or distorting)  his  private conversation with  Trump   thus sabotaging efforts to reach a DACA deal. But this should be no more shocking than if  somewhere in Illinois  a rooster crowed at dawn.
 Trump  needs to remember that Democrats are not  his  pals.
Ned Ryun of American Majority has an excellent idea: Whenever  President Trump  meets with Democrats   he  should summon news cameras and let them stay until Democrats leave. Trump displayed his leadership skills to almost universal applause when he allowed the media to broadcast live for 55 minutes from the Cabinet Room  as he negotiated immigration and border security last Tuesday. Doing this regularly when Democrats are around will prevent them from offering journalists an alternative version of events. With cameras present  Trump should be on his best behavior. And the American people will benefit from Senate-floor-like transparency inside the White House. This would be unprecedented and gain Trump considerable respect for opening a virtual sunroof atop the West Wing.
Trump’s job is to recall at all times  with the relentlessness of a bloodhound chasing an escaped Death Row inmate  that he must not give free knives and anvils to people who hate his guts and literally would cheer if he woke up dead tomorrow morning . (And the Left need not bother to deny this. Everyone knows this is true  as evidenced by the Left’s repeated fantasies about Trump being shot  stabbed  and decapitated.) These people would call  Trump  a racist for ordering vanilla ice cream.  He  should remember this without fail and act accordingly.
If  Trump  becomes blurry about this fact   he  should remember the very first fake-news story to emerge on  his  watch. On January 20  during  his  very first day as president  Time magazine’s Zeke Miller reported that Trump removed a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King from the Oval Office. This confirmed that  Trump  was a racist who couldn’t wait to evict that troublemaking black from  his  new office.

SOLUTION:
Positive