The history of the Tulsa police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man after responding to a stalled vehicle is emerging as her actions come under national scrutiny.
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Police helicopter footage was among several clips released that show the shooting and aftermath.
Three gunmen shot and wounded eight people including a 3-year-old girl on an east Baltimore street Saturday night, police said, adding the suspects fled and the victims were all expected to survive. Graves says Ebert works for the department and that police are investigating whether the post came from him. What will she do at father daughter dances? “When she began following Mr. Crutcher to the vehicle with her duty weapon drawn, she was yelling for him to stop and get on his knees repeatedly”, the affidavit said.
“We’re taking lives not because of black and white but, we’re taking lives because its good verses evil…”If you watch these crimes, these crimes aren’t race driven, they’re hate driven”, Lewis said”. Steve Kunzweiler, the Tulsa County District Attorney, announced the charges following an investigation.
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A video of the confrontation shows Shelby firing on Crutcher while he had his hands in the air. The protective order was later denied. But to me he looked like somebody who was doing what they were asking him to do and this young officer I don’t know what she was thinking.
As Crutcher approaches the driver’s side, more officers walk up and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle. Which raises a question for me: how did the officer know Crutcher was a bad dude? I’m just curious about something I heard on the video right before Crutcher was killed. Crutcher’s head then drops, leaving him completely lying out in the street. One girl closes our group by sharing: “I wish white people could give us a chance”. Another officer who perceived the same threat deployed his Taser at the same time Shelby fired her weapon, Wood said.
The incident that sparked unrest in North Carolina occurred last Friday when Officer Shelby was responding to a domestic violence call.
In a separate case, a Tulsa reserve deputy who previous year killed an unarmed suspect after mistaking his handgun for his stun gun was charged with second-degree manslaughter, which addresses “culpable negligence”.
Betty Shelby’s mugshot photo after she turned herself in on September 23.
Crutcher’s is among the latest in a series of fatal encounters between law enforcement and minority communities. Shelby worked as a Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy for four years before joining the Tulsa Police Department in December 2011, officials said. “I think (prosecutors) must have thought charges were warranted”, he said.
Obama said protesters expressing their frustrations by looting or breaking glass aren’t going to “advance the cause” of racial justice.
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The family and their attorneys say the video clearly shows Crutcher wasn’t threatening the officers.
