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 Deborah Danner ? City EMT Patrick Moore said he was prepared to move emotionally disturbed  Deborah Danner  safely out of  her  Bronx apartment â and then the shooting started.
An angry  Danner   66  had stopped screaming as Moore went to grab a chair used to move patients. A half-dozen police officers simultaneously entered  her  bedroom on Oct. 18  2016  the first responder testified Friday.
âI assumed they were going to restrain  her  â said Moore under questioning from Bronx prosecutor Newton Mendys in the murder trial of NYPD Sgt. Hugh Barry.
Instead  Moore recounted  he heard cops shouting at the heavy-set older woman to âput it down  get downâ â apparently a reference to a baseball bat that  Danner  was holding.
 Deborah Danner  asked to be left alone before fatal NYPD shooting
 Deborah Danner  (Facebook)
Moore recounted that the EMTs could hear  Danner  screaming when they reached the seventh floor of the building. When they reached  her  apartment   Danner  was holding a pair of scissors in  her  hands.
Front page of New York Daily News for June 1 shows Barry charged with  Danner 's murder. (New York Daily News)
Within a short time   Danner  was conducting a âfairly normal conversation with Brittney â Moore testified  adding that he kept his distance from the patient to avoid upsetting  her  âin any way.â
Barryâs lawyer has argued the sergeant was forced to make a split-second life or death decision when  Danner  grabbed the baseball bat.
â Mrs. Danner  was the aggressor and  she  was about to kill my client â said defense attorney Andrew Quinn.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bernie Sanders ? "There 's some reluctance to put a lot of time into -LSB- unseating Democrats -RSB- , versus -LSB- building -RSB- a more progressive Congress overall ," said former Communications Workers of America union President Larry Cohen , a top Bernie Sanders adviser who now chairs the board of the Our Revolution political group that was spawned from the senator 's 2016 presidential campaign .

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Michael Flynn ? As news broke that  Michael Flynn  would testify that Donald Trump ordered  him  to talk to the Russians during the transition phase between administrations  the left exploded with glee that actual evidence of âRussian collusionâ was in sight and it could bring down Trump.
ABC News reported that Trump directed  Flynn  to speak with the Russians âinitially as a way to work together to fight ISIS in Syria.â
âSorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the âdirectiveâ  Flynn  received  itâs incredibly mundane â commented journalist Michael Tracey.
Sorry to be a party-pooper but if this is the extent of the "directive"  Flynn  received  it's incredibly mundane [Link] pic.twitter.com/U2jgA3teVe â Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 1  2017

SOLUTION:
Neutral