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September 20, 2016

Oklahoma: Police Release Video of Cop Fatally Shooting Black Man with Hands in the Air
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, police have released a video showing a white police
officer shooting and killing unarmed 40-year-old African American
Terence Crutcher while his hands were in the air. Officer Betty Shelby
shot Crutcher around 8 p.m. on Friday, after his car broke down. Some of
the video released Monday came from police helicopter footage, in which
one can hear the man in the helicopter saying about Crutcher, "That
looks like a bad dude, too." Other footage from police dash cam video
shows Crutcher walking away from officers with his hands in the air,
then putting his hands on the side of his own car, as he's surrounded by
officers. The video captures a voice coming over the police radio
saying, "He's just been tasered," and then a woman's voice yelling
"Shots fired," as the video shows Crutcher's arms falling to the
pavement. The Justice Department says it's investigating the shooting as
a possible civil rights violation.


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