A man holds a copy of the program for the funeral of Terence Crutcher during services to honor him in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016.
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The solemn, music-filled service at Antioch Baptist Church for Terence Crutcher, 40, drew hundreds of mourners, many of whom fanned themselves or stood to sing and applaud on a warm evening in north Tulsa.
16 after he was shot once by a Tulsa police officer.
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. She was released after posting bond. The killing prompted several rallies and protests throughout the city in the past week, all of them peaceful.
He told that crowd that ‘it could have been me, ‘ before reciting the names of black residents who died after police encounters nationwide in recent years.
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett also attended the service.
“Too many young people have died in this community, way too many”, the mayor told attendees. One man we spoke to says he didn’t know Crutcher, but did know he had to be at the service. A Tulsa police spokeswoman says two officers ordered the man at the scene to put his hands up, and the man reportedly didn’t comply before reaching into the SUV, when one officer deployed a Taser at the man, and shortly thereafter the other officer fired one shot.
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Tulsa police have said Crutcher was unarmed and there was no weapon in the vehicle.
