Crutcher died later at the hospital.
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“I’m going to show you”, Terence recently texted his sister.
A terror suspect caught up in a gunfight with officers is brought into custody alive, yet an unarmed black man whose vehicle stalled on the road days earlier is shot dead.
In a news conference, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said on Friday, officers responded to calls of a tan SUV in the middle of the road.
Jordan said he found the videos “very disturbing, very hard to watch”.
“We wanted them to see it before it was released so they wouldn’t be blindsided by it”, Sergeant Shane Tuell said.
Attorney Scott Wood, however, told the Tulsa World that the confrontation Friday had been underway for nearly 2 minutes before video from a police helicopter and other officers’ dashcams began to roll. Shelby’s attorney told The Times that she thought Crutcher had a weapon and that he “had acted erratically, refused to comply with several orders, tried to put his hand in his pocket and reached inside his vehicle window before he was shot”.
Police didn’t find a weapon on Crutcher’s body nor in his vehicle, according to the police chief. However, video from a helicopter and another squad auto showed that Crutcher was walking with his hands up toward his vehicle when he was fatally shot. He then appears to lower his hands and lean against the auto.
Video footage from the dash cam and a helicopter show Terence walking away from the police vehicles toward his auto with his hands up.
In the audio from the police helicopter, a man can be clearly heard stating that Crutcher had his hands up.
“Maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, look, this is not who we are”, she continued. His hands are up in the air when he approaches the driver’s side door, where he drops to the ground after being shocked with a stun gun then shot.
The timecode in the video taken from the dash-cam of Officer Turnbough shows that Crutcher was shot around 1:50 into the recording. A pop is heard and he falls a few seconds later.
He was Tasered then the fatal shots were fired.
She has since been placed on paid administrative leave and is now under investigation.
Several protesters showed up at the Tulsa County courthouse on Monday where members of Crutchers family and their attorney also spoke.
Goss was disturbed that police didn’t immediately check on Crutcher after the shooting: “After having been shot, a couple minutes it appears, but it seemed like a lifetime, went by before anyone actually checked with him as far as pulse – as far as whatever the case may be”. When asked why police did not provide immediate assistance, MacKenzie said: “I don’t know that we have protocol on how to render aid to people”.
Wood tells the Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2cFOk5S ) that Shelby says Crutcher repeatedly ignored officers’ commands.
The US Department of Justice has launched a separate civil rights inquiry into the officers’ use of force, US Attorney Danny Williams with the Northern District of Oklahoma said on Monday. At right is Rev. Joey Crutcher, her and Terence’s father. That big “bad dude” was my twin brother. “That big bad dude loved God”.
Crutcher was on his way home from a music-appreciation class at a local community college in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when his SUV stalled around 7:40 p.m.
“The big bad dude was my twin brother”. That big bad dude was at church singing with all of his flaws, every week.
You all want to know who that big “bad dude” was. In that case, a grand jury indicted then-Sheriff Stanley Glanz on misdemeanor charges, and the volunteer deputy who shot Harris, Robert Bates, was convicted of second-degree manslaughter.
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A rally is planned for Tuesday night in Tulsa calling for the arrest of a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man.
