The family disputed a statement by police that Crutcher, who was unarmed, was reaching into his vehicle when he was shot by white police officer Betty Shelby.
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According to Mr Wood, Ms Shelby, who is described as a “drug recognition expert”, at that point believed Mr Crutcher was “on something”, possibly PCP.
Those protests erupted hours after the family of Terence Crutcher, 40, condemned his fatal shooting by a white Tulsa, Okla., police officer. She’s on paid leave while the shooting is investigated.
U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams said the Department of Justice will conduct a separate civil rights investigation into the shooting.
“She was yelling at him to stop, for probably at least 10 to 15 seconds, he gets to the window of the SUV, and has his hands in the air, looks at them, the side of the auto at Officer Shelby, and his left hand goes into the window”. – Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Crutcher family3. “That man went to the auto, hands up, put his hands on the vehicle”, the GOP nominee said during a speech to a historically black church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Crutcher’s family called the shooting a criminal act and is seeking charges. “You have somebody in there that makes a mistake that’s bad, or that chokes”. Disturbing video of the incident showed Shelby and several other officers surrounding Crutcher as he walked back toward his vehicle with his hands in the air. The best evidence that he said or did something to spook the cops that could conceivably justify a reasonable belief of imminent harm is the fact that one of the other cops at the scene tazed Crutcher just before Shelby shot him.
An outpouring of vulgar and profane comments directed at the Tulsa Police Twitter account caused the department to temporarily disable it. TPD also has been censoring comments on its Facebook page for threats and profanity, Tuell said.
He also said it’s hard, as an officer who truly cares about people, to watch the pain Tulsa and its citizens are enduring. That’s when Shelby fired one shot and a fellow officer, Tyler Turnbough, deployed a Taser, Wood said. “But we do know that we have two more names to add to a list of African-Americans killed by police officers in these encounters”, Clinton said.
Shots were fired when he reached in through the window of the auto, Mr Wood said.
For the immediate future, two units will be dispatched to all 911 calls, regardless of whether it’s a report of trouble unknown, a 911 hang-up or something more serious, Tuell said.
She then radioed colleagues to say she had a subject “who is not following commands”.
“I got a feeling that’s about to happen”, replies the first officer, identified by Mr Wood as Ms Shelby’s husband, Dave Shelby. “And we’re pleading with the leadership of this country, everyone, to just see that and let’s put some systems in place to prevent this from happening again”, she said.
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Lois Shelby told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday Betty Shelby “thought she had to protect her own life” when she fatally shot Crutcher last week. In that incident, Keith Lamont Scott, also an African American, was shot by police in a parking lot, sparking serious disturbances.
