An unarmed black man killed by a white Oklahoma officer who was responding to a stalled vehicle can be seen in police video walking away from officers and toward his SUV with his hands up before he approaches the driver’s side door, where he drops to the ground after being shocked with a stun gun then fatally shot.
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Crutcher couldn’t have reached into the vehicle, Crump said, because enhanced photos of the vehicle taken from police video show that the window was rolled up. The caller said a man was running from the vehicle, saying it was “going to blow”. Crutcher then began to put his hand into his left pocket, Wood said, adding that Shelby told Crutcher, “Hey, please keep your hands out of your pocket while you’re talking to me”.
Trump, joined by running mate Mike Pence at the OH event, has routinely praised police officers in his speeches to supporters. 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.
Seconds later one officer deployed his TASER.
The shooting was captured by a police helicopter and a cruiser dashcam, though it’s not clear from the footage what led Shelby to draw her gun or what orders officers gave Crutcher. That officer, Betty Shelby, is white. The Department of Justice is investigating Shelby’s use of force.
Citing the names of the African-American men killed in police shootings, Clinton tweeted: “Keith Lamont Scott”. And I have gotten the endorsement of so many different police groups. Now, it seems to stop and say unarmed Black male “Terence Crutcher had PCP in his vehicle”. Mr Trump surmised on Wednesday. That was apparent Saturday night at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where off-duty officer Jason Falconer confronted and shot to death Dahir Adan after the 22-year-old had stabbed 10 people.
She said she’s spoken with law enforcement leaders “who are as deeply concerned as I am, and as deeply committed as I am to reform”.
Protesters now want officer Officer Shelby to be fired.
Scott Wood who is the lawyer of police officer Betty Shelby, who shot Crutcher, said he had ignored officers’ commands.
“President Obama just had a news conference, but he doesn’t have a clue”.
Trump also caused controversy Tuesday night when he told a almost all-white crowd in North Carolina that “we’re going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before”. “What do you have to lose? Our country is a divided crime scene, and it will only get worse!” “It really can’t. The inner cities cannot get much worse”, he said.
Clinton addressed the shootings in a speech in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon. She planned a speech focused on how the economy can work for people with disabilities, an implicit poke at Trump’s much-publicized mocking of a disabled journalist during a rally a year ago.
“We have got to tackle systemic racism”, Clinton said.
Trump said during an appearance Wednesday at a church in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, that he is a “tremendous believer in the police and law and enforcement”.
Meanwhile, one of Trump’s top supporters – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – lambasted Clinton for her response on conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham’s show.
At the time, Trump was taking issue with a story Kovaleski had written for The Washington Post.
The shootings come as Trump and Clinton confront unique challenges with African-American voters.
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Trump later said he was only acting as a flustered reporter, not one with a disability, and he denied knowing Kovaleski, who had covered him for years.
