Crutcher’s sister is demanding that prosecutors charge the officer who shot him.
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Crutcher was shot on September 16 and later died at the hospital.
“He has his hands up and is facing the vehicle and looks at Shelby, and his left hand goes through the auto window, and that’s when she fired her shot”, said Wood, according to Reuters.
The officer engaged Crutcher, who her attorney said she believed was impaired.
As Shelby’s attorney, Scott Wood, described the incident to Tulsa World, no one was around when Shelby arrived, “so she isn’t really sure what is going on”.
The Department of Justice said Monday it would conduct a federal civil rights probe, a investigation parallel to the one local authorities in the state are carrying out.
The incident was captured on police dash cam as well as a police helicopter.
Scott Wood, a lawyer for the police officer who shot Crutcher, said in a statement that at the time it was not readily apparent that Crutcher was unarmed.
Crutcher’s twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, called for charges Monday.
An officer called Crutcher a ‘bad dude.’ Does that matter?
Crutcher, he adds, “looks like a bad dude, too. That “big, bad dude” was singing with all of his flaws every week”. Trump said. “But maybe people like that, people that choke, people that do that, maybe they can’t be doing what they’re doing”.
Lois Shelby told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday that Tulsa officer Betty Shelby “thought she had to protect her own life” when she fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher last week.
“We’re hoping that America will open their eyes, everybody, and see there’s an issue, a systemic issue, that needs to be solved”, Crutcher said.
‘We all respect our police greatly, and they will just have to get better and better and better’.
Video from 2 separate angles emerged this week of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher with his hands raised being engaged by police after his auto broke down. But none of the officers was wearing a body camera.
The officers surround him and suddenly he drops to the ground.
“The video was released on Sunday, and the first time I was able to watch it was on Monday, and I lost it”, he said. Then nearly immediately, someone can be heard yelling, “Shots fired!” and Crutcher is left lying in the street.
“Shots fired!” a clearly distressed female cop yells over the radio. “We have one suspect down”.
Wood said Shelby fired her gun at the same time as the other officer deployed his Taser, because they both perceived a threat. Shelby and the second officer follow Crutcher with their weapons drawn and pointed at his back.
San Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick says the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in Tulsa is “the ideal example” of what he’s protesting when he refuses to stand for the national anthem at 49ers’ games. Bates said he mistakenly grabbed his gun instead of his Taser.
The officer’s attorney says she was afraid Crutcher was reaching for a weapon when she opened fire.
Shelby has been placed on administrative leave and is under criminal investigation, prosecutors and police said. Crutcher reportedly said, “Come here, come here”, then took off running, saying the vehicle was going to “blow up”.
After police responded to a 911 call about the vehicle, the black man found himself raising his hands high above his head.
After the shooting, Crutcher could be seen lying on the side of the road, blood pooling around his body, for almost two minutes before anyone checked on him. “We’re asking, we’re pleading, and we’re demanding that justice be served”. He then approached Shelby, police said.
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“What he needed was a helping hand and they gave him a bullet in the lungs”, Crutcher family attorney Benjamin Crump told MSNBC.
