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May 18, 2017

Tulsa, Oklahoma: Officer "Not Guilty" in Terence Crutcher Killing
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a jury on Wednesday found white police officer Betty
Shelby not guilty of manslaughter for killing unarmed African American
Terence Crutcher after his car broke down last September. Police video
footage shows Crutcher walking slowly away from officers with his hands
in the air, then putting his hands on the side of his own car before
he's surrounded by officers and fatally wounded by Officer Shelby. This
is Terence Crutcher's twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, speaking after the
"not guilty" verdict.

Tiffany Crutcher: "I'm going to make sure that I don't rest until we get
reform for this police department in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and we change the
culture of this corrupt police department. … Now, we've got to go home.
We have to go home and hug on his four kids and love on them and explain
to them a system that's perpetuated so much injustice, a justice system
that's perpetuated so much injustice. And I promise you I won't rest
until we break that chain."



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