This epidemic has sparked a nationwide outrage due to the fact, that since the start of 2015, there have been over 400 police-responsible killings of African Americans in the U.S. This shooting is not the first, prior to this was a recording of police killing unarmed black men and teenage boys in Ohio, Minnesota. The Department of Justice is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting.
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Tiffany Crutcher said Monday that her is family is devastated over Terence Crutcher’s death. Crutcher, 40, was a father of four and enrolled in a music appreciation class at Tulsa Community College.
Second helicopter officer: “Looks like that’s a bad dude, maybe on something”.
Tiffany Crutcher then went on to tell the media gathered in Tulsa, “You all want to know who that big “bad dude” was”.
“The big bad dude was my twin brother. That big ‘bad dude, ‘ that’s who he was”, she added. “That big bad dude, that’s who he was”.
Officials said Crutcher ignored orders to put his hands up, according to the Associated Press, although the videos show Crutcher walking slowly to his auto with hands in the air. He stood beside his driver’s side window as several police officers stood behind him with their weapons raised. As Crutcher approaches the SUV, three male officers walk up and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and reach down and place them on the vehicle. He is followed by four officers who surround him, making it hard to see exactly what happened.
However, in the video, Crutcher can be seen raising his arms in the air in the middle of the street. On the helicopter footage, someone can be heard saying, “Time for a taser, I think”, before Crutcher is shot.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said, “The video is very disturbing”.
Then nearly immediately, someone can be heard yelling, “Shots fired!”. Crutcher’s head then drops, leaving him lying motionless. “Shots fired”, a woman’s voice then says. Police walk around Crutcher for about two minutes before giving assistance.
In an effort to collaborate and show transparency, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan has elected to show video and audio in reference to the officer involved shooting that occurred on September 16th, 2016 resulting in the death of Terrance Crutcher.
Shelby has since been placed on paid administrative leave and is now under investigation.
Tulsa police now do not carry body cameras, so it is unlikely any additional footage of the shooting will be forthcoming.
She said Shelby did not activate her patrol car’s dashcam.
Initial police briefings indicated Mr Crutcher was not obeying officers’ commands, but Ms MacKenzie said she did not know what Mr Crutcher was doing that prompted police to shoot.
Police said they were responding to a call of a vehicle abandoned in the middle of the roadway.
The video contradicts an assertion made by the police department on September 17 that Crutcher did not put his hands in their air, as reported by the Associated Press.
“It’s obviously a very high-profile matter”, Kunzweiler said Sunday, while declining to comment about the Crutcher case. We’re going to stop it right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“I would like to see us be a better city than some of the other cities we’ve seen”, Jordan said. The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the incident.
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The Tulsa County District Attorney says they can’t discuss what the video shows. In it we see the man with his hands up, unarmed.
