In one video shot from a police helicopter, Crutcher is seen with his hands in the air, followed by an officer with a drawn weapon. As the squad auto pulls up to the scene, a man, identified by police as Terence Crutcher, is seen walking toward a tan SUV parked in the middle of a two-lane road with his hands up as a female officer points her gun behind him. Crutcher was headed home after classes at Tulsa Community College when his auto broke down on the road.
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Authorities haven’t said whether Crutcher had a weapon but say he refused police orders to put up his hands.
Footage from the scene didn’t show Crutcher reaching into the vehicle at all, only walking toward it, Goss told the World.
“It’s very hard to watch”, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday during a press conference.
As the videos of Terrence bear witness, Crutcher was called a bad dude who could be on something, presumably with Betty’s husband calling Terence a drug user, even though Dave was watching Crutcher walk with his hands up – and had no confirmations of any crimes committed by Terence. Someone can then be heard saying, “Shots fired”.
Crutcher died later that evening at a local hospital. Tulsa police officials indentified the shooter as officer Betty Shelby and Tyler Turnbough as the officer who deployed his Taser.
“He’s got his hands up there for her now”, an officer could be heard saying in the video from the helicopter as it hovered overhead. He also called for the suspension, or outright firing, of an officer who can be heard on police audio saying Crutcher looked like “one bad dude” shortly before the shooting. “Might be on something”.
“No, it’s OK. She’s a big girl, man”.
U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams said the Department of Justice will conduct a separate civil rights investigation into the shooting. An officer fires a shot at Crutcher who drops down on the road. Someone on the police radio says, “I think he may have just been tasered”.
“We asked questions of the police officers and the chief of police, who was there”, Owens said.
Investigators say Crutcher approached officers as they investigated a stalled vehicle. “When you see this video, you’re going to feel some kind of conflict”. “I will make this promise to you: We will achieve justice in this case”.
With already-uneasy relations between police and blacks in the community, Tulsa needs to be the place where change happens, Tiffany Crutcher said.
“The big bad dude was my twin brother”.
That’s the critique many have made online since details surfaced about the officer-involved shooting of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Okla.
“We need to protect the integrity of the process”, said Tulsa County DA Steve Kunzweiler. Both officers are white and Crutcher was African American.
“After we land, I’ll go check on her”. He did put his hands above his head for “periods of time”, Wood said.
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But they did not release the dash cam video from Shelby’s vehicle, which would show us exactly what took place between them two to make her so terrified that she had to kill him.
