Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced before the video and audio recordings’ release that Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV when he was shot Friday.
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Police video shows Crutcher walking toward his SUV that is stopped in the middle of the road. Both officers are white, MacKenzie said Monday. “They continued to talk to him, he continued not to listen and follow any commands”. The Department of Justice is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting. Crutcher said her family is devastated over Terence Crutcher’s death, and asks that protests against the shooting remain peaceful.
TPD releases Helicopter Video: WARNING: This video is graphic and shows the shooting of a man.
“Please maintain the peace”, Jordan urged.
Officers were responding to a different incident when they noticed an SUV stalled on the road, police spokeswoman Jeanne MacKenzie said, according to The AP. Crutcher lowers his hands and seems to reach into the vehicle, and then is seen falling to the ground. While standing beside the driver’s side door, he suddenly drops to the street.
He was first tasered and then shot.
Based on the video alone, it appears unclear who fired the fatal shot or why it was sacked. One of the officers near Crutcher backs up slightly.
On Sunday, police released the names of the officers involved. Shelby has been placed on administrative leave with pay. These Tulsa Police Department officers have made it abundantly clear how little regard they have for Tulsa’s communities of color. He said officers in the helicopter can be heard saying Crutcher looked like “one bad dude”, but also saying his hands were raised, according to the World.
Crutcher’s twin sister Tiffany Crutcher told the media she knows the footage of her brother’s footage will lead to outrage but urged protesters to avoid violence, the Daily News reported.
Police investigators said Crutcher refused several orders to show his hands and when he reached back into his auto one officer deployed a Taser while another officer fired one shot.
She recalled celebrating her and her brother’s recent 40th birthday, on August 16.
“I have his text message, and it said: I’m going to show you”. “And now he’ll never get that chance”. “We saw that Terence was not being belligerent”, family attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons in a separate news conference. “Terence died on that street by himself”. At Monday’s police news conference, Jordan said more information would be released in the future. He said that “we will achieve justice” and that “covering up” is not in his or his staff’s DNA.
About two seconds later, Shelby is heard saying, “Shots fired”.
Authorities are investigating the death of Terence Crutcher, 40, who had his hands in the air when he was shot next to his auto, relatives say.
“Officers have discretion whether or not to turn their light bar on”, she said. “And there didn’t seem to be a real good explanation for why police would not have rendered medical aid for so long”.
Tulsa resident Mark Whited, who was among the protesters, said more should be done to “bridge the mistrusts” between police and citizens.
And now the United States Department of Justice is investigating.
“What was Terence Crutcher’s crime?” “We have one suspect down”.
Crutcher died at the hospital where he was taken after he was shot Friday.
The case comes as US police faces increasing criticism for the killing of unarmed civilians, typically Black people and other people of color, sparking nationwide protests, as well as a fierce debate over racism in policing. Robert Bates claimed he accidentally shot Harris after confusing his gun with a taser. “That place ain’t that nice”, Andre Harris told reporters.
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“That big bad dude- his life mattered”.
