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Another Innocent Black Man Shot and Killed for Literally No Reason

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tulsa-police-release-dashcam-video-fatal-shooting-42192589

An unarmed black man killed by a white Oklahoma officer who was responding to a stalled vehicle can be seen in police video walking away from officers and toward his SUV with his hands up before he approaches the driver's side door, where he drops to the ground after being shocked with a stun gun then fatally shot.

In Tulsa police helicopter footage that was among several clips released Monday showing the shooting of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher and its aftermath, a man in the helicopter that arrives above the scene as Crutcher walks to the vehicle can be heard saying "time for a Taser." He then says: "That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on something."

Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced before the video and audio recordings' release that Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV when he was shot Friday. It's not clear from the footage what led Betty Shelby, the officer who fired the fatal shot, to draw her gun or what orders officers might have given Crutcher. Local and federal investigations are underway to determine whether criminal charges are warranted in the shooting or if Crutcher's civil rights were violated.

Crutcher's twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, called for charges Monday.

"The big bad dude was my twin brother. That big bad dude was a father," she said. "That big bad dude was a son. That big bad dude was enrolled at Tulsa Community College, just wanting to make us proud. That big bad dude loved God. That big bad dude was at church singing with all of his flaws, every week. That big bad dude, that's who he was."

Police video shows Crutcher walking toward his SUV that is stopped in the middle of the road. His hands are up and a female officer is following him. As Crutcher approaches the driver's side of the SUV, three male officers walk up and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle. The officers surround him, making it harder to see his actions from the dashboard camera's angle.

Crutcher can be seen dropping to the ground. Someone on the police radio says, "I think he may have just been tasered." One of the officers near Crutcher backs up slightly.

Then almost immediately, someone can be heard yelling, "Shots fired!" Crutcher's head then drops, leaving him completely lying out in the street.

After that, someone on the police radio can be heard saying, "Shots fired. We have one suspect down."

Officer Tyler Turnbough, who's also white, used a stun gun on Crutcher, police said.

The 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 in the 2015 death of an unarmed black man. Shelby worked as a Tulsa County sheriff's deputy for four years before joining the Tulsa Police Department in December 2011, officials said. She has been placed on paid leave.

The initial moments of Crutcher's encounter with police are not shown in the footage. Shelby did not activate her patrol car's dashcam, said police spokeswoman Jeanne MacKenzie, and the ground-level video released Monday came from the car of a second officer who arrived at the scene.

Initial police briefings indicated Crutcher was not obeying officers' commands, but MacKenzie said Monday she didn't know what Crutcher was doing that prompted police to shoot. Two 911 calls described an SUV that had been abandoned in the middle of the road. One unidentified caller said the driver was acting strangely, adding, "I think he's smoking something."

After the shooting, Crutcher could be seen lying on the side of the road, blood pooling around his body, for nearly two minutes before anyone checked on him. When asked why police did not provide immediate assistance once Crutcher was down, MacKenzie said, "I don't know that we have protocol on how to render aid to people."

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, which also called for charges, said Crutcher was left to bleed while officers stood by. The group's executive director, Ryan Kiesel, said Crutcher's death shows "how little regard" Tulsa police have for the community's minorities.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the county courthouse Monday evening holding signs that read, "Justice 4 Crutch" and "Don't Shoot."

With relations between police and blacks in Tulsa already uneasy, the community needs to be the place where change happens, Tiffany Crutcher said.

"This is bigger than us right here. We're going to stop it right here," she said.

U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams said the Department of Justice's civil rights investigation into the shooting will be separate from a local one into whether criminal charges should be filed.

"The Justice Department is committed to investigating allegations of force by law enforcement officers and will devote whatever resources are necessary to ensure that all allegations of serious civil rights violations are fully and completely investigated," he said.

Speaking Monday in Tulsa, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said Crutcher committed no crime and gave officers no reason to shoot him.

"When unarmed people of color break down on the side of the road, we're not treated as citizens needing help. We're treated as, I guess, criminals — suspects that they fear," said Crump, who is representing Crutcher's family just as he did relatives of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black Florida teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in 2012.

He said Tulsa police drew their own conclusions about Crutcher.

"So I guess it's a crime now to be a big black man," Crump said. "My God, help us."

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This story has been corrected to show that Crutcher's first name is spelled Terence, not Terrence, and that the shooting comes four months after a former volunteer deputy in Tulsa County was sentenced in an unarmed black man's death, not five months.
Yes, such a "big bad dude" with no warrants trying to get home from community college. Instead of helping this man, the people who are supposedly paid to protect us first instinct was to shoot and kill. Please, Trump supporters and Kloset Klux Klan members, explain what he was doing wrong. Please tell us why his murder was justified because Blue Lives Matter and the police make no mistakes since they wear uniforms. Uhh...he had a gun? Nope, that ain't it. He committed a crime? Nope, that ain't it. He didn't comply with orders? Nope, that ain't it. He resisted arrest? Nope, that ain't it. Oh man, it appears that you're out of standard excuses. I look forward to the completely logical explanations for this officer's actions. In the meantime, please give Betty Shelby, the BIGGEST Hee-Haw.


UPDATE: She's being charged with man slaughter: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/us/tulsa-officer-charged/

Hopefully she's found guilty in the court of law. Once someone is held accountable for failing to follow proper protocol, we should see a decline in these unjust murders.
 
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#2 ·
RIP. And yes, let's hear the explanation from the Trump brigade on how this was justified. This is an unnecessary MURDER. I hope those responsible get treated as the murderers they are.
 
#3 ·
God, cops suck.

Not because they're "racist", but because they obviously can't do their job properly in these situations.
 
#15 ·
It's not clear from the footage what led Betty Shelby, the officer who fired the fatal shot, to draw her gun
Maybe because she's an incompetent cunt who was handed a loaded weapon that went on to flat out murder someone....maybe that's why...holy fuck there is clearly no justification at all for this if this bitch doesn't get 20 years then what's the point having a police force?
 
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That poor guy. His poor loved ones. Just trying to go about his day, needed a little help with his car, and he gets killed. How did it get to the point they were surrounding him. His car broke down. From one thin I read allegedly she was first on scene and when she pulled up, he walked up to her car and she felt threatened. Guy's car broke down and he walked up to her, I'm assuming to ask for help moving it out of the road and she felt threatened. Fuck.

I kind of think she pulled the trigger because the other cop deployed his taser (not that that was o.k. either). She panicked. Panicky cops scare me just as much as angry ones. I get cops are scared, but all those "warrior" training courses they take don't help. They're basically two days of watching videos of cops getting shot to death and the instructor telling them don't let this be you. Recipe for disaster.

That helicopter radio chatter is going to be bad in front of a jury too. Big black guy so me must be real bad.
 
#21 ·
A Tulsa police officer shot and killed a black man who ignored repeated requests to put up his hands before reaching into an SUV

Why can't the man not just be a man and not a black man? I am sick of everything being made to do with race. While it's a sad situation, all the guy had to do was keep his fucking hands up and follow instruction.
I'm sure the officers are also aware of the anti-white, anti-cop narrative spewed by Obama and BLM.

If the guy's race wasn't mentioned there would likely be no news article and no thread like this.
 
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Why does it have to be a race thing? You do realise most of the shootings that police conducted of black people in the last year are actually justified? You do realise that white/hispanic/asian/middle eastern people get unlawfully killed by police too?

And why are we claiming that Trump and his supporters are cross-burning racists? What has Trump said now that makes him a racist? People throws this "Trump is racist" thing around all the time but no one's actually told me why he is racist.

In this case, an innocent man was gunned down in cold blood and these cops need the book thrown at them because this was sickening and they are disgusting people who just murdered an innocent civilian. That is not acceptable, regardless of the colour of his skin.
 
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What has Trump said now that makes him a racist? People throws this "Trump is racist" thing around all the time but no one's actually told me why he is racist.
Racist things said or done by Donald Trump:

Trump: "He’s a Mexican, we’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”

The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people.

Quote from a Trump employee: “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor, it was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” (from the New Yorker)

Trump: “And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day"

Trump: “I think the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Trump: “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” (Note, when you refer to groups as a whole like "the gays" "the blacks" "the Muslims" that's generally not showing them much in the way of human decency. It's typical bigot language)

Trump: "look at my African American over here.”

Trump: “A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market…if I was starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I really do believe they have the actual advantage today." - (all studies at the time in 1989 proved this false, it's just stirring up the false image that minorities get everything handed to them.)

Trump: “They don’t look like Indians to me and they don’t look like Indians to Indians.”

Oh and a few links you may find interesting:

http://www.getlittlebird.com/blog/d...ek-follow-multiple-white-supremacist-accounts

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/donald-trump-white-nationalist-afp-delegate-california

http://www.nationalmemo.com/donald-trump-gives-interview-pres-credentials-to-white-supremacist/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mp/trump-tweet-blacks-white-homicide-victims/

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...id-tweet-about-hillary-clinton-posted-n603161

http://fortune.com/2016/06/19/trump-racial-profiling/

So yeah, take off those rose-tinted glasses you have on and look at the evidence. Trump is a fucking racist. It's not remotely debatable at this point.
 
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@Dobbizzle There are a lot of people in the world who see what they want to see and ignore the parts that contradict their narrative. Living in the real world is difficult for them, so they create a fictional reality in their head and reject any evidence to the contrary. When faced with choosing between unpleasant truths and comforting lies, they'd rather put on those proverbial rose-tinted glasses. Sad! ...but true.
 
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Bizarre circumstances all around that appear to be a recipe for disaster immediately preceding the shooting, IMO.

Why were multiple officers approaching with weapons drawn at the start of the video?
Why was he walking away from them with his arms raised, toward his vehicle, allegedly ignoring commands given by multiple officers on the scene with weapons drawn? This, in particular, I really have difficulty understanding. If I'm in that same situation, I'm freezing and doing everything the ones pointing guns at me are telling me to do. I'm sure as shit not turning my back to approach the driver's side of my car and lowering my hands.
Why does he appear to lower his hands as he approaches the driver's side? Was he trying to reach inside, open, or enter into the vehicle? If so, why?
When was the shot fired? At the same time as the taser? After? While the man was downed/neutralized by the taser? Was it purposeful instinct, or was it a nervous, reactionary mistake? The latter seems more likely. I can't imagine why the officer would act to shoot someone being affected, and presumably neutralized by a taser, assuming the taser shot was successful.
What does protocol say should be the response in this situation? And to what extent was protocol followed in this case?

I realize this seems cut and dry to a lot of people, but I'd like some answers to at least some of these questions before I hop onto any bandwagons here, especially given the relatively recent history of rather inaccurate early-reporting in these kinds of situations.

Of course it's tragic that any harm was done, especially resulting in lost life in this situation, particularly when there was evidently no real threat in the end; and while a gunshot certainly seems quite excessive, particularly if there was also a taser involved, it's not difficult to imagine how these potentially disastrous circumstances could quickly escalate, particularly given recent tensions.
 
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RIP

and FUCK, my friends in US told me few years back that this country has the best Police. Clearly it doesn't....how many times this has happened this year, I've lost fucking counts

Sometimes I wonder, will this race War ever end....don't get me wrong but reading through history America was built on this...First the natives, then the Black people, then religion,....it's still happening

no matter how advance and upgraded society you live in, if you have shit brain people you will have shit brain results.....Education is the core thing that helps you become better but looks like it's not the only thing that keeps you from doing these crimes
 
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