Sharpton called allegations that Crutcher may have been under the influence of drugs “bogus”.
Advertisement
He said Crutcher repeatedly ignored Shelby’s commands and didn’t respond to her questions.
The White House says Obama expressed his condolences to both mayors and affirmed the administration’s commitment to provide assistance as needed.
The Crutcher family’s lawyer said that even if he had used the drug, it would not justify his death, the AP reported. Attorney General Loretta Lynch reiterated those words, urging the people of Charlotte to keep it civil. “I must tell you: I watched the shooting in particular in Tulsa, and that man was hands up, that man went to the vehicle hands up, put his hand on the auto”.
With relations between police and blacks in Tulsa already uneasy, the community needs to be the place where change happens, Tiffany Crutcher said. MacKenzie said the Tulsa Police Facebook page would remain online but that its review section, which allows users to rate it between one and five stars, has been disabled for the same reason.
The driver’s side window of Terence Crutcher’s vehicle was rolled down during his fatal encounter with police last week, a source inside the Tulsa Police Department with knowledge of the shooting investigation told The Frontier on Wednesday.
The shooting comes four months after ex-Tulsa County volunteer deputy Robert Bates was sentenced to four years in prison on a second-degree manslaughter conviction in an unarmed black man’s 2015 death.
Middletown Police Chief Rodney Muterspaw took to social media to vent his frustrations about police shootings and the negative effects it has on the image of officers. “Somebody in there that either makes a mistake, that is bad, or that chokes”.
No footage has been released to the public yet.
The shooting is being investigated by local and federal authorities.
The shooting of Terence Crutcher, 40, by Tulsa Officer Betty Shelby after his sport utility vehicle broke down on Friday, was the latest in a series of fatal shootings that have raised questions of racial bias in USA policing. On Tuesday, 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by Charlotte police officer Brentley Vinson, who is black.
As Crutcher reaches the driver’s window of the SUV and put his hands down, three more officers run up and the officers in the helicopter speculate that Crutcher was about to be hit with a taser.
‘I’m very, very troubled by that [shooting]’ he added, ‘and we have to be very careful.
U.S. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton called for an end to these types of shootings.
Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that the Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man this week may have “choked”.
Officer Shelby later claimed that Mr. Crutcher reached inside the window of his SUV, which appears to be completely closed.
“I lost it”, Rev. Joey Crutcher told CNN on Wednesday morning.
Advertisement
The officer who pulled the trigger was later identified as Betty Shelby. Records show Crutcher was ordered to exit the vehicle for a pat-down search and began making a movement to his right ankle before an officer managed to get control of him.
