Two videos, one shot from a dashcam, the other from a police helicopter, show that Crutcher was walking toward the auto with his hands up before Officer Tyler Turnbough Tasered him and Officer Shelby subsequently shot him.
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Wood said Crutcher looked at Shelby and reached with his hand into the vehicle window.
Wood said no one was around when Shelby pulled up to find an SUV straddling the center line with its engine running and doors open.
KOKI-TV learned that two officers were in that helicopter, including Shelby’s husband.
A police spokesman says the Oklahoma officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man had a stun gun at the time but did not use it.
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. “It’s very saddening, especially to hear someone in the helicopter say, ‘That looks like a bad dude.’ How does that look like a bad dude? Probably on something”, referring to Crutcher.
“That big “bad dude”, his life mattered”, she told a separate news conference on Monday.
Crutcher’s twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, is demanding that criminal charges be filed against the officer who fired the fatal shot. “That big bad dude was a father”, she said. That bit bad dude was enrolled at Tulsa Community College, just wanting to make us proud. That big “bad dude” was a son.
“That big bad dude loved God. That big bad dude, that’s who he was”.
Officers came across Mr Crutcher’s stalled vehicle while they were en route to another call, reports say. Shelby had also claimed that Crutcher wouldn’t raise his hands or respond to her, which the video footage vigorously disproved. “Right now, we need for them to arrest Betty Shelby”, said Marq Lewis, a member of the group We The People Oklahoma, during a protest on Monday. “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 was placed on paid administrative leave while the department investigates the shooting. Goss said. “We don’t have all the nuances and all the details, but to this point, there appears to be no negative connotations that would have warranted any aggression on the behalf of the police officers”.
“In this country we all enjoy the presumption of innocence regardless of any accusation leveled”, he said.
“The public information officer suggested that the officer shot Terence Crutcher because he reached inside the vehicle”, said attorney Benjamin Crump.
“I got a feeling that’s about to happen”, said the first officer. Prior to joining the Tulsa Police Department, she was a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office where she received “several commendations”, the agency’s media flack, Casey Roebuck, told Vocativ.
A rally is planned for Tuesday night in Tulsa calling for the arrest of a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man.
The video shows Crutcher on his back with what appears to be blood oozing from his torso.
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Dashcam video shows him with his hands up, walking away from Shelby, who shot and killed him at nearly the same moment that Officer Tyler Turnbough deployed a Taser.
