Holding back tears and with a trembling voice, the twin sister of black man who was fatally shot by a Tulsa Police officer last week defended the victim’s legacy during a press conference on Monday.
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“He wasn’t killed. So why was an unarmed black man who has committed no crime, who only needs a hand, given bullets in his lungs?”
The Tulsa, Oklahoma, Police Department says its Twitter account has been temporarily shut down because of inappropriate messages it’s received following last week’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man.
Obama made calls to mayors Jennifer Roberts of Charlotte and Dewey Bartlett of Tulsa.
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, called the shooting “intolerable”. Likewise, an officer who hovered above the scene in a police helicopter also commented that Crutcher may have been “on something”.
Video from 2 separate angles emerged this week of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher with his hands raised being engaged by police after his auto broke down. Officers say Scott was armed and posed a threat. They are joined by two more officers. They also argue that Crutcher could not have been reaching into his SUV, because the window was closed.
Also absent is audio that could have captured exchanges between Crutcher and Shelby. A police officer is heard saying, “I think he may have just been tased” on the radio.
“Well as you know, I am a tremendous believer in the police and law enforcement because we need that for ourselves, we do, we really do”, Trump said to applause, according to Real Clear Politics.
“After watching the video and seeing what actually happened, we asked for facts, we asked for answers and we clearly got that through the video”. That big bad dude loved God. “Could be on something”.
The officers surround him and suddenly he drops to the ground.
Later, on Tuesday, a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot and killed 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. That’s when Shelby fired one shot and a fellow officer, Tyler Turnbough, deployed a Taser, Wood said.
“What orders had been given to Mr. Crutcher, for example”. When he nears the vehicle, four officers crowd around him. The video shows that the officers waited more than two minutes before administering any first aid.
Attorney Scott Wood, however, told the Tulsa World that the confrontation Friday had been underway for nearly two minutes before video from a police helicopter and other officers’ dashcams began to roll. She had previously worked with the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office for four years.
Police were initially responding to reports of a stalled vehicle in the middle of the road.
The controversial magnate, whose main support comes from white men, many of whom do not have any education beyond high school, for the past month has been trying to move closer to black and Hispanic voters, who broadly favor the Democrats but without whose support political experts say Trump can not win the November election.
“I called him ‘Crutch, ‘” Lauderdale said Wednesday. Attorneys for Crutcher’s family aren’t confirming or denying that claim, but they say evidence shows Crutcher’s shooting was unjust.
Tulsa’s police chief Chuck Jordan later confirmed that no gun was found in the Oklahoma man’s van or on his person. Jordan said no weapon was found on Crutcher or in the vehicle. A female officer with her gun drawn trails Crutcher; several other officers arrive at the scene as Crutcher puts his hands on the driver’s side window.
“He has his hands up and is facing the vehicle and looks at Shelby, and his left hand goes through the auto window, and that’s when she fired her shot”, Wood told the Tulsa World for a story published Tuesday.
Crutcher’s criminal history includes a 1995 arrest in nearby Osage County in which officers reported they saw him fire his weapon out a vehicle window. At that point, Shelby shot Crutcher. That “big bad dude” was my twin brother.
Terence Crutcher, 40, was the 170th black man shot by the police in 2016.
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“That big, bad dude mattered”, Tiffany Crutcher said.
