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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Brian Shaw ? On November 17  a police officer was killed during a routine traffic stop in New Kensington  Pennsylvania. His name was  Brian Shaw   and he was only 25 years old.
According to reports  the suspect  29-year-old Rahmael Sal Holt  fled his car after he was pulled over  and shot  Shaw  during the subsequent chase. Officials said  Shaw  did not appear to have fired  his  gun  while Holt fired at least six times  landing at least once in Shawâs chest.  Shaw  lay in the street gasping for air before dying in a hospital that night. After several days on the lam  Holt was captured and arrested November 21 with  Shawâs  handcuffs.
CAPTURED: Rahmael Holt was arrested in Hazelwood this morning and placed in  Officer Shaw 's handcuffs. #wtae pic.twitter.com/4kjxd6efWY â Kelly Brennan (@Kbrennan_WTAE) November 21  2017
No NFL players kneeled on Sunday to protest the brutality that occurred to  Shaw . No national cable channels dedicated expansive coverage of the incident  if some even included it at all. It required a Google search to learn about the kind-hearted residents who lined the streets of the small Pennsylvania town holding American flags while firefighters stood in uniform paying their respects during the funeral procession.
But the narrative that cops are always the âbad guys â deserving condemnation and shame across the board  is simply not true. Some cops abuse their power. Others use it to do their duty. Like the five Dallas police officers killed in 2016   Shaw  put on a uniform to serve and protect  his  community. Yet the NFL forbade the Cowboys from wearing special decals on their helmets to honor the fallen Dallas officers  while allowing its players to continue protesting law enforcement.
No superstar athlete has spoken out about Shawâs murder  although he too was once a football player  at Slippery Rock University. Every Sunday   Shaw  likely watched a sport  he  loved only to see a plethora of NFL players kneeling against men and women wearing the same uniform as  him .
But thatâs forgotten in an anti-police narrative en vogue among many. Itâs no wonder thereâs an absence of coverage over  Shaw   when police fatality statistics across the country are hardly ever discussedâa shame  given the recent uptick.
Are these statistics ever mentioned during the debate over Americaâs justice system? For every Colin Kaepernick GQ cover or celebrity rant on social media  there are officers like  Shaw   who do not display an abuse of power in the discharge of their duties. So often during the NFL anthem protests  you hear players vow it has nothing to do with the U.S. military or police (although a lot of Americans are getting just that message). But it seems they have no problem disrespecting the officers who are paid to ensure players get from their cars to the stadium and back to the parking lot safe and sound. Our justice system isnât perfect  and we should work to redress all injustices no matter their victimsâ identities  but that shouldnât detract from the many police officers who do their dangerous jobs well.
Men like  Shaw  risk their lives to do right by their community. Men and women leave their loved ones every morning  not sure if they might come back again. For that  we should take a little time to realize how worthy of respect many police officers are  and temper our complaints about isolated injustices with recognizing they donât represent the norm  and that injustice the other way exists  too.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Alistair Pike ? The discovery brings researchers one step closer to understanding how it is that humans developed art and language and religion — the types of symbolic and cultural expressions that have always been thought to elevate humans from other species  said archaeologist  Alistair Pike  of Britain’s University of Southampton  who was part of the research team.
“It’s almost the definition of being human ”  Pike  told The Washington Post. “It’s how we define ourselves as different from other animals and primates  having language and cultural expression. There’s been a lot of work trying to understand where in Homo sapiens’s lineage did we first become symbolic individuals?”
Perhaps   Pike  said   it  started with Neanderthals.
Still  Stringer stressed that there is still not definite proof of Neanderthals’ ability to make figurative art — of animals and people — because the animals the researchers found on the paintings in Spain have uncertain origins.  Pike  said  it  was not entirely clear whether humans may have stumbled upon the Neanderthal paintings and simply added to them with the vague animal drawings  or if they were a part of the original Neanderthal designs; the researchers have not yet dated them   he  said.
The discovery that they did not  in fact  need the help of modern humans puts Neanderthals and humans on a more level playing field   Pike  said  given that tens of thousands of years ago  modern humans weren’t all that sophisticated either. The end goal with this research  he said  is to understand how the brain became wired for symbolic expression — but that’s going to require a lot more cave discoveries.
“If we’re going to try to find out when we started thinking like humans  we’re going to have to go back further in time ”  Pike  said. “What we’re interested in is when the brain became modern  and that’s a really difficult thing to get at. You can see how big it was by looking at the size of the skull  but it’s really hard to know how it was wired inside. If the use of symbols and symbolic behavior can be used as a proxy for how the brain was wired  then we can understand how the brain evolved.”
The Neanderthals went extinct about 5 000 years after humans arrived in Europe. The suspected causes have ranged from climate change that affected available food to competition with modern humans. As research moves forward   Pike  said  it may be useful to keep in mind that perhaps humans and Neanderthals were not as different as we thought.
“There’s always been a sense that all this expression  this art  arrived with modern humans  and Neanderthals might have been copying them in the very late period of their existence ”  Pike  said. But wouldn’t it be interesting if it was in fact the other way around? Modern humans may have landed on the moon — but they started out in the same place as Neanderthals.”

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Emmanuel Macron ? PARIS (Reuters) -  French President Emmanuel Macron  said on Thursday that Polandâs plans to overhaul the judiciary remained a cause for concern though there were a decreasing number of subjects where the two countries did not see eye-to-eye.
 French President Emmanuel Macron  attends a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris  France  November 23  2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
Frosty even under the previous French administration  bilateral relations between the two powers reached a new low in August when  Macron  said the Polish people deserved better leaders and  he  shunned Poland during an eastern Europe tour.
But at a joint news conference on Thursday in Paris the two leaders appeared to want to put their differences to one side  with  Macron  saying: âWe have disagreements  which we talked about  but also points on which we share views.â
When he met Szydlo on Thursday   Macron  avoided overt criticism and said  it  was not up to him to lecture another EU country on its domestic reforms.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo attend a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris  France  November 23  2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
âWe will continue to exchange views on this topic for concerns â  Macron  said. âIf it turns out that what is done does not comply with European treaties  we will all draw the consequences.â

SOLUTION:
Neutral