In two videos provided by Tulsa police, Crutcher can be seen with his hands in the air shortly before he was shot. Crutcher is the 40-year-old unarmed black man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose vehicle broke down on the road, and while waiting for road side assistance, cops rolled up on him, assumed he was a “bad man on drugs” and executed him on the spot.
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The parking lot of the Antioch Baptist Church was filled, as was the overflow parking lot at a nearby school.
The 40-year-old was fatally shot September 16 by Officer Betty Jo Shelby.
Shelby told investigators that Crutcher failed to comply with her instructions and she feared for her life, the affidavit said.
Tulsa police released two videos on Monday, one taken from a helicopter and the other from a dashboard camera in a patrol auto, that show Crutcher, a Tulsa Community College student, holding his hands in the air shortly before he was shot in the chest.
People stood outside to show their support for the family of Terence Crutcher as they passed by in the funeral procession.
US PROSECUTORS charged an Oklahoma policewoman with manslaughter on Thursday over last week’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, which sparked angry protests.
And like several people in the community Diana Cooper-Russell told the station that it’s her “hope they will learn from his life and death and his living was not in vain”.
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“I say that this was the shot that was heard around the world”, Armstrong said. Tulsa police said Crutcher was unarmed and there was no weapon in the vehicle.
