He did not have a weapon in his possession.
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Footage from a police auto shows Terrence Crutcher with his arms raised, appearing to follow police directions. He walks to his auto with his arms raised before being shot once. A dark stain of what appears to be blood spreads down Crutcher’s right side before he fully collapses.
The files are set to be released to the public after a news conference at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
“We will achieve justice in this case”, said Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan. “We saw that Terence was not being belligerent”.
Moments after that conversation in the police helicopter, Shelby fires one shot with her gun as an officer next to her fires a Taser.
Shelby told her dispatcher a few minutes later that Crutcher was not being cooperative. Jordan confirmed that Crutcher was unarmed when he was killed.
Almost a dozen protesters gathered outside the Tulsa County courthouse following the news conference, calling for justice in the case.
“I think the justice system will work here in Tulsa”, he said.
The New York Daily News reported Officer Betty Shelby, who is white, shot Crutcher.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Tulsa County courthouse this morning to protest Crutcher’s death. Three officers join her, obscuring the camera’s view of Crutcher.
“[Crutcher] was parked in the middle [of the road] broken down. We’re going to stop it right here”, she said. Pleas Thompson, president of the NAACP’s Tulsa chapter, also saw the videos. “She did not even render aid at all”.
From Goss’ perspective, he said, Crutcher failed to exhibit behavior that would potentially warrant being shot by a police officer. Another says, “that looks like a bad dude too, could be on something”. “We don’t need some more lives to be changed this way”.
The family is calling for peaceful protests.
He added he knows racially biased policing is present in Tulsa.
Others vehemently agree with Lewis that the Tulsa police have demonstrated their inability to serve their community with fairness and compassion.
ABC News has reached out to Crutcher’s family for comment, but did not immediately hear back. “They treated him like a suspect”. Police were responding to another call when they encountered him, the attorney told the World. They claimed that he would not raise his hands in the air when instructed to.
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday that Crutcher had no weapon when he was shot to death by an officer who was responding to a report of a stalled vehicle. “That big bad dude loved God”. That big bad dude was at church singing with all of his flaws, every week. “That big bad dude was a son”. Crutcher, 40, was a father of four and enrolled in a music appreciation class at Tulsa Community College.
Solomon-Simmons says the video also calls into question police statements that Crutcher died at a hospital following the shooting.
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FOOTAGE of an unarmed black man shot dead by a white police officer has emerged as his family calls for charges to be brought against the cops.
