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The Shooting of an Unarmed Black Man in Oklahoma

The Shooting of an Unarmed Black Man in Oklahoma

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cjsummers Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 10:50am  
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 10:57am  
@cjsummers I am sure that if he was told to go to vehicle they would of not had guns drawn.
 
I think you need to go watch officers around the country and see how these stops take place. Officer was alone until this squad car arrived.
 
Tasing some one that big does not always work. I know people that was big and they just pulled them out. Not only once but 4 times.
 
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 10:59am  
@joepyeweed Um...if they think the person is dead then it becomes a potential crime scene and then don't they generally leave the body in situ until investigators get there??

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Unless the person is shot in the head or the heart, they don't necessarily die right away. They can bleed out for several minutes before they die... if someone can stop or slow the bleeding, they may be able to survive until a ambulance arrives. And medical trauma teams can work some amazing miracles if they actually get them in the timely manner. Unless the head has been decapitated a trauma team usually makes some an effort.
 
That was the biggest complaint of the people of Ferguson. An ambulance should have been called and carried the body away. But instead they left the body in the street for hours and hours, on a sweltering hot day. That can't be protocol and is really bad for public perception.
 
They have chalk for crime scenes. They don't need the actual body.
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VonsterPeo Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 11:07am  
@joepyeweed I cannot and will not believe they intentionally left him there to die, no matter what the BLM hotheads spew.
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joepyeweed Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 11:39am  
@joepyeweed I cannot and will not believe they intentionally left him there to die, no matter what the BLM hotheads spew.

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Then why wasn't an ambulance called?
 
Did an ambulance take this guy away from this latest scene?
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 12:16pm  
Everyone has an opinion.
 
The fact is he was not following instructions. Simple.
 
No its not worth his life.
 
Question As we see things today You have ask this young man to stand or stop here. Now he is not following or listening to you and is walking away what do you do.
 
Please answer
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cjsummers Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 2:12pm  
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 2:20pm  
@cjsummers Have you ever been arrested.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 2:22pm  
The video shows them having their guns drawn. Officers do not pull their guns when ones are following orders.
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 2:25pm  
Have you ever been arrested.

@tntrecycling :
 
I already told you that I have been arrested and my arrest had nothing in common with the one shown on the video (obviously, as I am alive) despite the fact that I initially ran from the police. But you don't want to hear real life examples that don't fit your narrative.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 2:36pm  
@lanestar7 Ok so next time try to resist. Then get back with me on your version.
 
I can no longer tell you how many times I have been arrested and detained by our finest.
Some times I was treated kindly others well not so kindly.
 
Never have I ever resisted.
This state or others.
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kaci105 Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 3:40pm  
There is so much to say here...
 
First, let's just say (although there is zero evidence of this at this point) that he WAS disobeying the officers. This is not Hollywood and that is not ground for using fatal force.
 
Second, the bigger issue here is whether or not there is a systemic problem of racism among police officers. Is anyone really trying to argue that the way black people are treated by many police officers isn't a valid issue? Like, it's just 100% not possible that it played a role in how this went down? I really don't understand that mentality. You can support police officers and the job they do while acknowledging there is a real problem here. It doesn't have to be all one sided.
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 4:48pm  
Man ignored Oklahoma officer's commands before shooting, attorney says
 
TULSA, Okla. – An attorney for a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man said the man ignored officers' commands, kept touching his pocket and was reaching through a window of his SUV when he was killed.
 
Tulsa police video shows 40-year-old Terence Crutcher walking away from the officers and toward his SUV Friday with his hands in the air. He then approaches the driver's side of his vehicle, where an officer shocks him with a stun gun and another fatally shoots him.
 
Officers were called to the scene to respond to a report of a stalled vehicle.
 
Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced Monday, before the video and audio recordings were released, that Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV when he was shot. 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 gave Crutcher.
 
Shelby's attorney, Scott Wood, said Crutcher was not following the officers' commands and that Shelby was concerned because he kept reaching for his pocket as if he was carrying a weapon.
 
"He has his hands up and is facing the car and looks at Shelby, and his left hand goes through the car window, and that's when she fired her shot," Wood told the Tulsa World for a story published Tuesday.
 
Local and federal investigations are underway to determine whether criminal charges are warranted in the shooting or if Crutcher's civil rights were violated.
 
Police helicopter footage was among several clips released that show the shooting and 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" and then: "That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on something."
 
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."
www.foxnews.com/cate gory/us/crime/police -and-law-enforcement .html
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 4:49pm  
Amazing how some people have absolute outrage over someone not standing for the National Anthem but will go to great lengths to justify something like this happening.
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tntrecycling Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 7 years ago   Sep 20, '16 4:51pm  
Police officer tells you to stand here. Now you start walking away.
What is he or she to do.
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