In 2002, the wife of Shelby’s ex-husband called police and had a protective order against her due to threats and harassment.
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The officers slowly back away. Several of the officers who have committed these killings have gone to trial, but none of them have received jail time.
Authorities initially claimed Crutcher had also refused to obey Shelby’s commands to put his hands up.
Crutcher was shot by Shelby with his hands raised in the air as it was captured on helicopter video as shown below. On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that prosecutors in Tulsa have filed first-degree manslaughter charges against the officer.
Family lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons said at the press conference that even if Crutcher was not responding to Shelby’s commands that did not warrant the deadly shooting.
Per a tweet from Katie Higgins, a reporter for FOX 23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed Terence Crutcher last Friday will be charged with manslaughter.
Shelby told investigators she feared for her life and thought Crutcher was going to kill her. They say what appears to be blood on the auto after the shooting shows that the SUV’s window was closed, not open as police claim.
USA authorities have launched a civil rights probe into the police shooting of an unarmed black man in Tulsa, captured on video that sparked renewed outrage over law enforcement’s treatment of African-Americans. If convicted, she faces at least four year in prison, lawyers said.
Aerial footage of the incident reveals officers referring to Mr Crutcher as “a bad dude” that “could be on something” before he was fatally wounded. “At that time Mr. Crutcher was shot by Officer Shelby”.
“I do not know why things happen in this world the way they do”, he said.
Crutcher’s family attorney, Benjamin Crump, spoke with WCTV just after the charges were announced on Thursday.
But Ms Shelby’s attorney has given her version of events, claiming they found a vial of psychedelic drug PCP in Mr Crutcher’s vehicle. He is then shot once by Shelby and falls to the ground.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin says she hopes a first-degree manslaughter charge against a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man provides some peace to the man’s family and to the people of Tulsa. “We’re demanding full prosecution”.
Video of the encounter between Tulsa police officers and Terence Crutcher went viral after it was released Monday, as it appeared to conflict with the police department’s claim that Crutcher, a black man, had failed to comply with officers’ demands. The family disputes that the window to the vehicle had been open.
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In a recent event in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
