A Black man fatally shot by a White Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer responding to a stalled vehicle had no weapon on him or in his SUV, the city’s police chief said September 19.
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“Police claim that Crutcher ignored officers” commands and was shot dead by Tulsa officer Betty Shelby, while her male partner used his taser. Shortly after, with Crutcher’s hands raised in the air, the second officer shoots him. Officer Shelby responded while en route to another call. Crutcher’s family are rallying for criminal charges against the officer who shot him. The officer who shot him says she believed he was reaching inside the window of the vehicle and posed a threat.
Shelby’s attorney Scott Wood told Tulsa World that Shelby had recently “completed drug-recognition expert training, [and] believed that Crutcher was acting like a person who might be under the influence of PCP”.
Another fired her gun.
As we previously reported, dashboard camera footage released Monday by the Tulsa police department showed Crutcher was unarmed and had his hands in the air when he was shot and killed by officers responding to a report of a stalled auto.
After marking his 40th birthday with his twin sister last month, Crutcher sent her a text that read, “I’m gonna show you, I’m gonna make you all proud”. He was not the cop who called Crutcher a “bad dude”, the spokesperson said. Shelby tried to get Crutcher to talk to her, but he simply mumbled something unintelligible and stared at her, Wood said. He said his son attended the national workshop with him and that’s why he was enrolled at Tulsa Community College studying music. That “big bad dude” was a father. But having PCP in your vehicle isn’t the same thing as having it in your system-a crucial distinction to make when Shelby’s defense hinges on the claim that Crutcher was “under the influence”. “We’re demanding that and it’s time for everybody to demand that this stops and justice is served”, Tiffany said Monday. “It’s just really implicit bias that we see upon police officers every time they go after people of color – they see them as a threat”. “And when she is being accused of things she didn’t do wrong, it’s too much, and they don’t think about our family”.
“She wouldn’t harm anyone, we’re all sick, we feel for the [Crutcher] family”, Lois Shelby told the Associated Press. Shelby Was Responding to a Different Incident At about 7:36 p.m. Friday, dispatchers received a 911 call about an abandoned SUV in the middle of a street, with the driver’s door open and the engine still running, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday.
Crutcher continued to walk back towards the vehicle with several officers, with guns drawn following him.
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. The officers surround him, making it harder to see his actions from the dashboard camera’s angle.
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Trump added, “Maybe I’m a little clouded because I saw his family talking about him after the fact so you get a little bit you know different image maybe”. Crutcher accuses the officer who pulled the trigger of negligence and incompetence.
