Clinton told Harvey that if the African-American community came out and voted for her, she would work to stop racial shootings by police officers.
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Tulsa’s Police Department opened a criminal investigation in the case of Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man who was fatally shot by police officer Betty Shelby on September 16.
They reported Crutcher was stopped in the road because he’d had auto trouble.
Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man, was shot and killed by police Friday evening.
He says Shelby thought Crutcher was retrieving a weapon from his vehicle when she opened fire.
He walks to his vehicle with his arms raised before being shot once.
The two police officers are now on leave with pay until the investigation into the incident concludes.
Attorney Scott Wood, however, told the Tulsa World that the confrontation Friday had been underway for nearly 2 minutes before video from a police helicopter and other officers’ dashcams began to roll.
“The entire family is devastated”, the victim’s twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher said. “That big bad dude was a father”, she said.
She said it was clear to her that Terence died because of a Tulsa Police officer’s “negligence and incompetency and insensitivity”.
‘That big bad dude was a son.
Tiffany, told the Daily News her brother had just begun studying music appreciation at Tulsa Community College and had just left class when his auto broke down.
“The big bad dude was my twin brother”. That big “bad dude” was at church singing, with all his flaws, every week. “That big bad dude, that’s who he was”.
At a news conference Monday, Jordan struck a candid tone about the officer-involved shooting that left Crutcher dead. “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”.
Betty Shelby declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday and referred all calls to her attorney.
In a police dashcam video, one officer with a weapon drawn trails Mr Crutcher as he walks to the vehicle. They treated him like a suspect. The angle of the video shifts, making it hard to see the position of Crutcher’s limbs, but it appears Crutcher’s left arm also comes down, and then his body is seen falling to the ground next to his driver’s side door.
But Crutcher was then tasered and shot. “Let’s protest. Let’s do what we have to do, but let’s just make sure we do it peacefully to respect the culture of our family”.
One of the officers in audio from the helicopter says Crutcher is not following instructions. Then, a female voice is heard yelling “shots fired”, as the helicopter’s point-of-view reveals Crutcher’s bloodied body. Crutcher’s head then drops, leaving him lying completely out in the street.
“He was not approached because we suspected of having committed a crime”. He says Shelby opened fire and another officer used a stun gun when Crutcher’s “left hand goes through the auto window”.
Shelby’s attorney, Scott Wood, says the encounter unfolded for about 2 minutes before the video footage begins.
The deadly shooting comes just four months after former Tulsa County volunteer deputy Robert Bates was sentenced to four years in prison on a second-degree manslaughter conviction for shooting of an unarmed black man in 2015. Wood additionally alleged that Shelby thought Crutcher might have been under the influence of PCP, and that he kept reaching toward his pockets, indicating to her that he might be armed.
A United States police department in Oklahoma has released video of an encounter in which an unarmed black man was shot dead by a white officer while his hands were up.
Police spokeswoman Jeanne MacKenzie has said Crutcher refused orders to put up his hands. Two 911 calls described an SUV that had been abandoned in the middle of the road.
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