Oklahoma Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Man In Alarming Video
The man appears to be walking with his hands above his head.
09/19/2016 07:24 pm ET |
Updated 10 minutes ago
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“Terence died on that street in his own blood, without any help,” the lawyer said.
“We saw that Terence did not have any weapon,” Solomon-Simmons said. “We saw that Terence did not make any sudden movements. We saw that Terence was not being belligerent. We did not see Terence reach into the car. We did not see Terence attacking the officers.”
As seen in the video, more than two minutes go by before officers begin administering aid to Crutcher after he was shot.
The police chief said an investigation of the incident is ongoing. The U.S. Department of Justice will conduct a separate civil rights inquiry into the shooting, AP reports.
Does the madness ever end with you people?????????
Black men had better wake up and start voting and participating.....take your dicks out of Becky and get with the times, negro's.....you are nothing but target practice for this race of animals you love so dearly!!
That negro was on PCP, homegirl. He WAS a weapon. I don't think the shooting was justified from what I've seen in the video though. He wasn't acting hostile from my view. This is why women shouldn't be on the force....they scare too easily.
OMG, stop the press, call a wittness, a white man is actually admitting a nigga shooting was unjustified....listen, the last creatures on earth who should fear bm is nasty ww....like give me a break. This white ***** ironically, has a drug charge herself, has a violent past and wound up being a effin cop!! I hope the sista's in prison kick her white ass up and down cell block hell!!
Gonna have to see some evidence that she has a drug charge and violent past herself. Not that it would surprise me. I lived in Tacoma, WA when the police chief went nuts and killed his wife infront of his kids. Nutters do sometimes manage to get in and rise in the ranks.
Shelby joined the Tulsa police force in 2011 after having served as a deputy in the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office since 2007,
according to NBC News. Her husband is also a police officer and was on duty the night Crutcher was shot. In fact, Dave Shelby
was in the helicopter that flew overhead and recorded the moments leading up to the shooting. In that video,
released by the Tulsa Police Department on Monday, an officer is overheard describing Crutcher as a “bad dude.” However, a Tulsa police spokesman said Dave Shelby did not make the comment.
Betty Shelby has divorced and remarried at least once. According to the
job application she submitted to the sheriff’s office in 2007, her ex-husband’s new wife filed a protective order against her in 2002 to put an end to harassing phone calls the new wife claims Shelby made. The order was eventually denied and Shelby maintained her innocence.
Nearly a decade earlier, Shelby
noted on the same application, a breakup with her then-boyfriend led to the two damaging each other’s cars. Temporary restraining orders were filed and eventually tossed out.
Shelby is now a drug-recognition expert, which Wood said she received training for. She said she believed Crutcher was under the influence when she encountered him. Police said they
later found PCP in Crutcher’s car, but he is not the only one in the case who reportedly has a history of drug use. In the same job application where Shelby noted various domestic disturbances, she marked “yes” under a prompt that asked whether she had “possessed and used illegal drugs” in the past. Shelby said she used marijuana twice when she was 18 years old.
Shelby also has two excessive force complaints,
according to KJRH. Both of those cases were held to be unfounded. KJRH also reports that Shelby has four letters of commendation as well as an Oklahoma meritorious service award.
More information on the shooting case is expected to be released as the investigation continues.
Shelby, who is currently on administrative leave, is now a rightful target of the same scrutiny and investigation that many minority victims of police shootings have experienced. But those who knew Crutcher best are able to truly tell the story of who he was and what he stood for.
“You all want to know who that big bad dude was? That big bad dude was my twin brother,” Crutcher’s sister Tiffany
said at a press conference following his death. “That big bad dude was a father. That big bad dude was a son. That big bad dude was enrolled at Tulsa Community College… That big bad dude loved God. That big bad dude was at church singing with all his flaws every week. That big bad dude, that’s who he was.”
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the positioning of Crutcher’s hands during the encounter. His hands were raised in the moments before he was shot.
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