Montgomery resident Dr. Tiffany Crutcher has been on nearly every news network this week, calling for reform after the death of her twin brother, Terence Crutcher, Friday night in Tulsa, OK. He had not done anything wrong.
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Attorneys for Crutcher’s family said the family didn’t know whether drugs were found in the SUV, but that even if they were, it wouldn’t justify the shooting.
Terence Crutcher was scheduled to begin the music class at Tulsa Community College on the day he was shot, and TCC President Leigh Goodson said in a statement that Crutcher had talked with staff about his desire to be successful in college.
Records obtained by the AP show that Crutcher was arrested in 1995 in Osage County after he allegedly fired a weapon out of a vehicle window.
Tiffany Crutcher told CNN Wednesday that she hopes something positive can grow out of her family’s loss. “We’re asking, we’re pleading, and we’re demanding that justice be served”.
Two 911 calls before the shooting described an SUV abandoned in the middle of the road.
“Protest is protected by our Constitution and is a vital instrument for raising issues and creating change”, she said. A female officer is following him.
But those orders can not be heard in the audio from the dashcam video, which starts as another patrol auto pulls up to the scene, showing Crutcher walking toward the SUV with his hands up as Shelby follows him, apparently with her weapon drawn and pointing at Crutcher.
Crutcher can be seen dropping to the ground. Someone on the police radio says, “I think he may have just been tasered”. The lawyer for Betty Shelby, who fired the fatal shot, told reporters that Crutcher wasn’t cooperating with her initially and had behaved “erratically”, which might explain why she was jittery as Crutcher approached his auto.
Though Mr Trump said he was a “tremendous supporter of the police and law enforcement”, he said Mr Crutcher “looked like somebody who was doing what they were asking him to do”. That’s when Shelby fired one shot and a fellow officer, Tyler Turnbough, deployed a Taser, Wood said. They disputed the allegation that Crutcher was reaching into his vehicle, and hammered home that the police department found no weapon inside that disabled SUV. Multiple media sources, including the Wall Street Journal, reported that the Justice Department is also investigating Crutcher’s death.
Attorneys for Crutcher’s family dispute that, pointing to an enlarged photo from police footage that appears to show Crutcher’s window was rolled up. Hundreds of protesters rallied Tuesday night outside police headquarters in downtown Tulsa calling for her firing. That officer, Betty Shelby, is white.
Shelby had previously been accused of domestic abuse after her ex-husband filed a protective order against her.
“She wouldn’t harm anyone. Put his hand on the auto – to me it looked like he did everything you’re supposed to do”, Trump said during a campaign event at the New Spirit Revival Center.
King, introducing Trump, raised eyebrows when he said a black man is always framed by his skin color, recalling that he once told pop icon Michael Jackson “if you’re poor, you’re a ‘poor Negro.’ If you’re rich, you’re a ‘rich Negro.'” An educated black man is “an intellectual negro”.
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