Posted on 09/20/2016 10:54:01 PM PDT by Morgana
(CNN)From different angles, the videos show the same scene. An unarmed black man walks on a Tulsa, Oklahoma, road with his hands in the air. Police officers follow closely behind him as he approaches his vehicle. He stands beside the car, then falls to the ground after one officer pulls the trigger.
Now 40-year-old Terence Crutcher is dead. Crutcher's sister is demanding that prosecutors charge the officer who shot him. And the police videos of the incident are fueling criticism about the case. Federal, state and local authorities are investigating the Friday night shooting. Crutcher's family says he was waiting for help on the road after his SUV broke down. The officer's attorney says she was afraid Crutcher was reaching for a weapon when she opened fire. Attorney Benjamin Crump, part of the legal team representing Crutcher's family, countered at a Tuesday news conference that Crutcher's window was rolled up, making it unlikely he was reaching into the car.
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I think I know what may have caused it. Someone tell me what the temperature was in Tulsa that day? Wanna bet he was having a heat stroke? I mean car breaks down, he's over heated by sun plus heat from pavement. Yea..could happen.
Guilty until proven innocent but still guilty.
Can’t let these incidents go to wait.
She drew her gun and ordered Crutcher to get on his knees, which he refused to do, Wood said. He instead walked toward his car.
Damn uppity!
Walked away from her, towards his car, ignoring commands, reached inside his car, which is hard to see in the video. Another officer tased him as the first officer killed him with one shot.
He was most likely on pcp, which was found in the car, in which case a taser probably would not have phased him anyway.
DOJ isn’t waiting for any facts to come out before the persecution of the officer begins.
I don’t know if this would be considered a good shoot or not. An LEO would have to comment on that. But DOJ is NOT going to be fair to this white, female officer.
Another department for Obama to take over.
She is a woman; she’ll be fine.
The found PCP in his car might explain it.
He was tased and then was shot.
Perhaps her trigger had a light pull. It looks very bad for her... Not obeying commands doesn’t warrant getting shot.
I think it may have been an accident and a very unlucky shot. She didn’t mean to shoot, but did because of “light pull.”
Now, if only we could get people to stop driving on PCB, parking their cars in the middle of the highway and disobeying police commands.
Wrong. She is a WHITE woman married to a WHITE cop, who works for a WHITE Chief of Police in a predominately WHITE city.
She's going down as soon as an (R) shows up on her voting registration.
You cannot be serious? Want to bet that if he'd obeyed their commands to drop down, and didn't reach into his car, he'd still be alive. It's pretty simple.
I don’t agree; they might put on a show trial (indict on charges on which no jury would ever convict), but I don’t believe there is sufficient evidence to get her. Unlike other female cops in similar situations, she did the only thing she could to ensure he didn’t kill any of them (given her knowledge of the situation as it unfolded). If she is condemned for this, you’ll never see a non-black cop interact with a black suspect again; it isn’t worth losing their jobs, pensions, and possibly freedom.
“Damn uppity!”
Damn stupid.
Hillary has already told us what the DOJ is going to decide in this case.
Hillary Clinton condemned the police shooting of an unarmed black man in Oklahoma last week, using the incident to reignite calls for criminal justice reform and to highlight racial biases in policing.
In an interview on the Steve Harvey Morning Show Tuesday, Clinton called the shooting of Terence Crutcher, 40, “unbearable” and “intolerable.” Video footage shows Crutcher was unarmed with his hands visible when he was shot by Tulsa, Okla., police officers after his car broke down along a rural road,
“This horrible shooting — again. How many times do we have to see this in our country?” Clinton asked. “In Tulsa? An unarmed man? With his hands in the air? I mean, this is just unbearable and it needs to be intolerable.”
Clinton, who has emphasized that police departments should reflect the communities they serve, said more must be done to curb racial bias.
“You know, maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, ‘Look, this is not who we are.’ We’ve got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias,” Clinton said. “There are good, honorable, cool-headed police officers. ... We can do better. We have got to rein in what is absolutely inexplicable, and we’ve got to have law enforcement respect communities and communities respect law enforcement because they have to work together.”
I think reaching into his pockets was what got him shot.
But none of that matters to Hillary.
“With his hands in the air?” Huh? I suppose this is a reference to the false Ferguson report.
“Not obeying commands doesn’t warrant getting shot.
You cannot be serious? Want to bet that if he’d obeyed their commands to drop down, and didn’t reach into his car, he’d still be alive. It’s pretty simple.”
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I agree with ChiefJayStrongbow. They did not even try to tazer him. Much less put cuffs on him first. Not like they had half the police station out there and a bear in the air filming it. He was not violent. He just seemed dazed and confused. truly I thought he was having a heat stroke in the middle of the road. Like his car broke down, then he over heated.
Female officer could not control him. He would not submit. Chopper rolled in a few minutes later and caught the final 2 minutes of an almost 20 minute ordeal. BTW shooter cop's husband was in chopper.
I don't know what happened, but I think I know what didn't happen. The guy wasn't murdered or shot for sport. At the worst, a light trigger/nervous cop.
Cause for riots? DOJ take over? Nope.
I think he was tazed TWICE. Definitely tazed once on dashcam once.
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