Tulsa Police Department released a dashcam video of Crutcher’s shooting Monday.
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Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said arrangements were being made for the officer to surrender. Turnbough used a stun gun.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan has said that Crutcher did not have a gun on him or in his SUV.
The Department of Justice is investigating Shelby’s use of force.
It all started after a 911 call last Friday from a woman who said an abandoned vehicle was blocking the street and a man was running away.
Metropolitan Baptist Church’s 700-seat auditorium was packed Wednesday night as people from congregations in both north and south Tulsa came together to lament the death of Terence Crutcher, killed Friday by a Tulsa police officer. One caller stated that they thought he was smoking something.
Dashcam and aerial footage of the shooting and its aftermath showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby with his arms in the air. Four officers, three male and one female, approach Crutcher as he walks to the driver’s side and seems to lower his hands and put them on the vehicle. He then turned and walked to the edge of the roadway and turned to look at her, his hands still in the air, Wood said.
A person in the police helicopter was recorded referring to Crutcher as someone who “looks like a bad dude” who could “be on something”. “Probably on something”, before suggesting it was “time for a Taser”. Crutcher then appears to place his hands on a vehicle before the officers surround him. Nearly immediately, a woman’s voice yells on the radio, “Shots fired!” Officers wait more than two minutes before approaching Crutcher again.
Crutcher was pronounced dead at an area hospital. Shelby encountered Crutcher when she arrived on the scene and, according to Shelby, Crutcher would not answer her questions and repeatedly refused to comply with commands. “We need to pray for wisdom and guidance on each of our respective paths in life”.
US Attorney Danny Williams Sr. of the northern district of Oklahoma, which contains Tulsa, said that the Justice Department is looking into whether Crutcher’s civil rights were violated in the incident.
Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic rival, has said she found the footage of Crutcher being shot “unbearable”. And police said Crutcher did not have a gun on him or in his vehicle.
Asked why Crutcher wasn’t given immediate medical aid, MacKenzie said she was unsure. “Yeah, I know it.’ Racial divisions are so normalized in society that people possess a bias they don’t even know they have'”.
The Crutcher family’s legal team, represented by attorney Melvin C Hall, said: “This man had not committed a crime”. Police said a toxicology report could take several weeks.
Describing the actions Shelby took at that point, Wood said the officer approached the vehicle and saw that the windows were open, and that the doors were closed – and that no one was in the auto.
Police tactics in Tulsa, the second-largest city in Oklahoma, have come under increased scrutiny.
Prosecutors charged a Tulsa police officer with first-degree manslaughter Thursday, less than a week after she fatally shot an unarmed man on a city street and just days after police released graphic videos, saying in court documents that the officer “reacted unreasonably”.
That kind of conviction is rare.
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“I watched the shooting, in part, in Tulsa, and that man was hands up”.
