Crutcher, 40, was fatally shot by a police officer after his SUV stalled on the road in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Friday.
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However, videos from a second patrol vehicle as well as the helicopter show Shelby pointing her gun at Crutcher as he walks towards his auto with his hands in the air.
A familiar question that arose after other police shootings now looms over Oklahoma: Will the white officer seen on video fatally shooting an unarmed black man be charged with a crime?
Attorney’s for Crutcher’s family are calling this “misinformation”. Shelby and the officer who fired his Taser have been placed on paid administrative leave.
David Riggs, a former state attorney general who chairs the Oklahoma Access to Justice Commission, also addressed a report that the police had found the hallucinogenic drug phencyclidine, or PCP, inside Crutcher’s auto after the shooting.
Seconds later, Crutcher collapses to the ground, his white t-shirt red with blood.
Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday that Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV when he was shot.
An officer called Crutcher a ‘bad dude.’ Does that matter?
About a dozen officers and several protesters suffered non-life threatening injuries during an hours-long demonstration near where Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was shot by a policeman on Tuesday afternoon, police and local media said on social media.
According to Scott’s sister who told WSOC-TV that he didn’t have a gun, and said that law enforcement officials jumped out of a truck, said “hands up – he’s got a gun”, and then shot him. One officer appears to check Crutcher’s pockets first.
When asked why police did not provide immediate assistance once Crutcher was down, MacKenzie said, “I do not know that we have protocol on how to render aid to people”.
For an officer’s actions to qualify for serious charges such as murder under state law, prosecutors would have demonstrate that Shelby was not just reckless but that she had ill intentions, Cramer said.
Terence Crutcher, 40, was shot dead next to his stalled auto last Friday.
“I lost it”, Rev. Joey Crutcher told CNN on Wednesday morning.
The incident was captured on police dash cam as well as a police helicopter. “But people that choke, maybe they can’t be doing what they’re doing”, he said.
After the female officer shot Crutcher, video shows her crumbling to her knees and other officers surrounding her to console her.
“He has his hands up and is facing the auto and looks at Shelby, and his left hand goes through the vehicle window, and that’s when she fired her shot”, Ms Shelby’s attorney, Scott Wood, told The Tulsa World on Tuesday.
Shelby’s attorney said his client observed what he called Crutcher’s erratic behavior.
“I must tell you I watched the shooting in particular in Tulsa and that man was hands up. We’re treated as, I guess, criminals – suspects that they fear”, Crump said.
And Kaepernick has been trying to get us to acknowledge that this happens to unarmed black men too often, and that we need to change the dynamic that makes it so.
According to a Crutcher family attorney, Terence was just “having some difficulty with his vehicle and that’s it”.
The federal probe “will seek to determine whether a Federal Civil Rights violation occurred”.
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Graphic footage shows police officer kill black man. Tulsa mayor Dewey Bartlett assured the public that the city’s own investigation would be transparent.
