‘His intent is to do me harm’:White female Tulsa pig explains why she fatally shot unarmed black man

[TheGOAT]

Seen her on 60Mins last night.

She said after the police dept released her name the backlash felt like being chased by a lynch mob

 

[Chi Snow]

6 months removed from the shooting is just enough time for a majority of the public to have forgotten about it and to have concocted a story that isrehearsed, remorseful, believable by the masses

 

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/terence-crutcher-unarmed-black-man-shooting-60-minutes/

More evidence in the Terence Crutcher shooting

60 Minutes producers sift through evidence in the police shooting of an unarmed black man, including 911 calls and the significance of a glass eye

Last year in Tulsa, Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, was shot and killed by Betty Shelby, a white police officer. The incident was captured on video from two angles, one from a police dashboard camera and the other, from a police helicopter camera — and yet somehow, it’s still unclear what happened that day.

After Tulsa police released the videos to the public, the shooting became a big story in Tulsa and across the country. Both videos showed Crutcher with his hands in the air moments before the fatal shot. Still, when the story idea first came across the desks of correspondent Bill Whitaker and 60 Minutes producer Marc Lieberman, they weren’t sure they wanted to pursue it.

“At first glance, you might think that this is an open and shut case,” says Lieberman, who discussed his team’s reporting with 60 Minutes Overtime. “The more you delve into it and if you look at this video very carefully…it is unclear at the most critical moment.”

Officer Shelby told her story to Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes before her jury trial in May for first-degree manslaughter. She explains why she pulled the trigger and why she feels it was a reasonable decision. The 60 Minutes team also spoke with Terence Crutcher’s twin sister Tiffany, who argues that Officer Shelby should go to prison for the fatal shooting of her brother.

Both sides of the case are heard in this week’s riveting 2-part 60 Minutes story by Whitaker, Lieberman, and associate producer Michael Kaplan.

Whitaker calls the case “an American tragedy.”

“The jury’s going to have a very hard decision on its hands. A man is dead. A police officer is likely to lose her job and could lose many years of her life in jail,” says Whitaker. “The jury will have to look at this inconclusive video and make a decision. Does she go to jail for four years to life? Was this proper police behavior? I wouldn’t want to switch places with the jurors.”

After sifting through the facts of the case, Whitaker and Lieberman say the evidence paints a complicated picture. It’s still not known what evidence will be admitted by the court, so the producers zeroed in on what they considered to be the heart of the case. In this week’s 60 Minutes Overtime discussion, the team talks about some of the evidence they chose to leave out of the story.

For example, Officer Shelby told 60 Minutes that Crutcher was turning his head to look at her moments before she shot him. From her perspective, Crutcher was “targeting” her.

“She feared that there was a gun in the car he was going reach and then know exactly where to turn and shoot,” Whitaker explains. “That was her fear.”

Crutcher’s family challenges Officer Shelby’s version of events, noting that Crutcher had vision problems.

“The Crutcher family will tell you that his right eye was a glass eye and [that] when he’s turning like this to look at officer Shelby, it’s so he can see her with his good eye,” explains Whitaker.

A glass eye wasn’t Crutcher’s only physical impairment, according to his family. They say he also suffered from hearing loss, a problem they think could have been exacerbated by a police helicopter circling overhead. Officer Shelby insists he wasn’t complying with her commands; Crutcher’s family wonders if he couldn’t hear them.

There are also 911 calls which may be discussed in Officer Shelby’s trial. Before Shelby arrived on the scene, passersby saw a car stopped in the middle of the road near where Crutcher was standing. Two people were alarmed enough to call 911 and report the situation, though Shelby was unaware of these calls when she arrived on the scene.

The day after Officer Shelby shot Crutcher, the police did a follow-up interview with one of the 911 callers, a woman who interacted with Crutcher before he died. At one point, the caller said she suspected that Crutcher was reaching into his car for something, perhaps even a gun, she said. The woman said she backed away in fear.

The 911 calls and the police interview — excerpts of which are included in the Overtime video above — may or may not be relevant in the trial of Officer Shelby. The trial date is set for May 8th in Tulsa. A judge will determine what evidence the jury hears. In the meantime, Whitaker says the 60 Minutes report presents both sides of the story.

“You’re talking about a video that’s inconclusive. One side sees one thing and the other side sees another. And in comes 60 Minutes into the middle of all this,” says Whitaker. The mission of 60 Minutes, he says, was to simply present the facts for the American viewer and ask, What do you see?”

 

[The Lonious Monk]

She might be telling the truth I guess. Racism is ingrained in white people. She might not have thought it was about race, but we all know her reaction in seeing him as a threat was because he was black. She wouldn't have been as kill happy with a white person.

 

[SolemnSauce]

I mean, it's open and shut..at no point does the video show him reaching into the vechicle and or making an aggressive move towards her.

She shot duke because of what she thought me might do. With out any provocation, at the very least that's manslaughter. This ain't about if she's innocent, this is about how guilty she is, and in what legal statuette.

I mean, bugged out that it won't go down like that..the manipulations that's gone occur, misguided anger and actions till the real purpose of what this all is, is lost and she gets off.

 

[Ajackson17]

Sub-conscious it was about race, her conscious wasn't thinking about race. It's very ingrained in American society that the big black man despite his attire, despite his background positive/negative and etc does not come into play, but his skin color and his ethnic origins and the smeared campaign that has been done on to us.

 

[5th Letter]

6 months removed from the shooting is just enough time for a majority of the public to have forgotten about it and to have concocted a story that isrehearsed, remorseful, believable by the masses

All it takes is for a white supremacist to say one thing and watch how the rest of them follow the code thereafter while never wavering.

 

[5th Letter]

I mean, it's open and shut..at no point does the video show him reaching into the vechicle and or making an aggressive move towards her.

She shot duke because of what she thought me might do. With out any provocation, at the very least that's manslaughter. This ain't about if she's innocent, this is about how guilty she is, and in what legal statuette.

I mean, bugged out that it won't go down like that..the manipulations that's gone occur, misguided anger and actions till the real purpose of what this all is, is lost and she gets off.

In cases like this there is always mistrial. Word to the Walter Scott case.

 

[wmj710]

Even trump said he was troubled by this shooting, that should say enough.

 

[playmaker88]

Seen her on 60Mins last night.

She said after the police dept released her name the backlash felt like being chased by a lynch mob

And i would say imagine being shot and lyin dead in the street.

Or to paint a more grim picture imagine being kidnapped lynched and hung form a tree.. then riddled with bullets as the whole town smiled.. I mean she said the word lyncmob shes inviting the comparison.. my goal would to make her as uncomfortable as possible

 

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/terence-crutcher-unarmed-black-man-shooting-60-minutes/

Officer breaks silence on why she fatally shot an unarmed black man

Was the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, a wrongful death -- influenced by race -- or the outcome of Crutcher's actions? Bill Whitaker reports

The following is a script from “Shots Fired,” which aired on April 2, 2017. Bill Whitaker is the correspondent. Marc Lieberman and Michael Kaplan, producers.

Betty Shelby: He does have his hands in the air.

But Shelby says the video doesn’t tell the whole story. It all started 10 minutes earlier. She was on her way to a domestic-violence call when she says she saw a man she later would learn was Terence Crutcher standing in the road. She noticed his size, about 6 feet, 240 pounds, and his demeanor.

Betty Shelby: His hands are just dropped beside him. His chin is resting on his chest. And he’s standing there motionless. And I thought, “Hmmm. I wonder if he’s on PCP.”

Bill Whitaker: Why did that cross your mind first?

Betty Shelby: Because it was an odd behavior. Zombie-like, I-- I-- it’s the best I can-

Bill Whitaker: Zombie-like?

Betty Shelby: Zombie-like.

Bill Whitaker: Was he being belligerent?

Betty Shelby: No.

Bill Whitaker: Was he showing any aggression?

Betty Shelby: No.

Bill Whitaker: Is it possible that you saw him as more dangerous because he was a large black man?

Betty Shelby: No. What I based everything on was his actions, his behaviors. Race had nothing to do with my decision making.

Shelby says Crutcher kept ignoring her commands, kept walking toward the SUV even though she had drawn her gun, and had ordered him to get on his knees.

Betty Shelby: And he’s not doing it. I’m hollering at him, “Stop. Stop now. And he has now put his hands back up in the air. And he’s looking at his vehicle, back at me.”

Bill Whitaker: And you’re thinking?

Betty Shelby: I’m thinking he’s calculating how he can get to his vehicle to get whatever weapon it is that he’s going to get because he didn’t find it in his pocket.

At the same time, a police helicopter swooped in with two officers on board: A pilot and a spotter who, that day, happened to be Officer Betty Shelby’s husband.

Natsound: He’s got his hands up there for her now.

David Shelby says he could see his wife had a weapon drawn. The pilot saw something else.

Natsound: That looks like a bad dude too.

Bill Whitaker: Did you think he looked like a “bad dude”?

David Shelby: What I-- what I saw was, an individual that was being noncompliant and apparently and obviously refusing to obey the commands of the officer.

We asked Betty Shelby to look at the video and show us what she saw before the fatal shot.

Betty Shelby: I’m feeling that his intent is to do me harm and I keep thinking, “Don’t do this. Please don’t do this. Don’t make this happen.” And then right there he’s looking back at me. That’s what we call “targeting.” So he’s getting my position, my last-known location to retrieve and then shoot.

Bill Whitaker: You think he’s sizing up the situation to see where you are, how close, if he were to grab a weapon, he would know exactly where to turn to shoot? That’s what you’re thinking?

Betty Shelby: That-- yes.

It’s unclear what happened in the final moments of Crutcher’s life. Officers Shelby and Turnbough were in front of the dashboard camera and the helicopter was too far away. But Betty Shelby says, what’s hard to see on the video tape, is what she saw. She says Crutcher dropped his arms and reached into the car.

Betty Shelby: His shoulders drop, his arm drops, and he’s reaching in. And it’s fast. Just that would tell any officer that that man’s going for a weapon.

Bill Whitaker: You see this on the video?

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: That’s what you say is Mr. Crutcher reaching into the car?

Betty Shelby: Yes. I say with a louder, more intense voice, “Stop. Stop! Stop!” and he didn’t. And that’s when I took aim.

But Officer Shelby says it was a case of a noncompliant subject who she perceived was threatening her life. That’s why she says she pulled the trigger. Officer Turnbough says he saw the same threat and fired his Taser at the same moment. It was the first time Betty Shelby had discharged her gun in the line of duty.

Bill Whitaker: If things had worked out differently, he would go before a judge, have his day in court.

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: But as it turns out, you’re judge, jury, and executioner on the spot.

Betty Shelby: No. I saw a threat and I used the force I felt necessary to stop a threat.

Bill Whitaker: Do you think, “I could shoot him in the leg, I could shoot him in the foot”? Is there nothing else you could’ve done?

Betty Shelby: No. And I’m not trained to shoot someone in the foot. We don’t train to be cowboys and to be like what they show on the movies.

Terence Crutcher lay bleeding in the street for about two minutes before officers moved in to check him for weapons and administer first aid. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. A vial of PCP was found in the driver’s side-door pocket. But police found no weapons on his body or in his car.

Bill Whitaker: Do you have any regrets about this?

Betty Shelby: I have sorrow that this happened that this man lost his life but he caused the situation to occur. So in the end, he caused his own.

Bill Whitaker: He caused his death?

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: Officer Shelby says that your brother’s actions caused his own death. What do you say to that?

Betty Shelby: If I wait to find out if he had a gun or not, I could very well be dead. There’s something that we always say. “I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.”

Bill Whitaker: But as it turned out, he did not have a gun.

Betty Shelby: No, he did not.

Bill Whitaker: And because of your action, a man is dead.

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: How do you come to terms with that?

Betty Shelby: It’s very difficult.

Bill Whitaker: Still?

Betty Shelby: Yes. I never wanted to be in that spot. His actions dictated my actions.

Betty Shelby says she acted out of fear for her life. But many in Tulsa’s black community say her fears were unfounded and influenced by race. That part of the story when we come back.

Bill Whitaker: There are people in black communities all across the United States who think that white officers overreact when it comes to dealing with black men in general, and they view this through that lens. What do you say to those folks?

Betty Shelby: My incident is not a racist incident. I am not racist. Race had no factor in what happened.

Officer Shelby believes she was sacrificed to keep the peace in Tulsa.

Betty Shelby: My situation was no different than-- I don’t know whether I should say this-- than a lynch mob coming after me. And I had those very threats. So much that--

Bill Whitaker: You’ve been threatened?

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: Death threats?

Betty Shelby: Yes. I had to leave my home. I had to grab up my family, and leave, and go to a safe place.

Betty Shelby told us she became a police officer to help people and she wants to get back to the job she loves.

 

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David Shelby: To some extent, I think, well, there were two victims that day. I think Terence Crutcher and Betty Shelby.

Bill Whitaker: And Betty’s a victim of what?

David Shelby: The social and political climate in our country right now, it’s almost like there is a war on police. And I think that that’s what’s happened to Betty.

Bill Whitaker: Was Terence Crutcher’s an avoidable death?

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: Did this have to play out the way it did?

Betty Shelby: No.

Bill Whitaker: What would’ve changed things?

Betty Shelby: If he would’ve complied. If he would have communicated with me, if he would’ve just done as I asked him to do we would not be here. You and I would never have met and no one would ever know my name.

 

[Trillfate]

This was a hate crime, period.

 

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[sTaY_TrUe]

Bitch shut yo racist ass up. Look like a racist

 

[Trillfate]

She might be telling the truth I guess. Racism is ingrained in white people. She might not have thought it was about race, but we all know her reaction in seeing him as a threat was because he was black. She wouldn't have been as kill happy with a white person.

Fixed.

 

[stringer bell]

6 months removed from the shooting is just enough time for a majority of the public to have forgotten about it and to have concocted a story that isrehearsed, remorseful, believable by the masses

All it takes is for a white supremacist to say one thing and watch how the rest of them follow the code thereafter while never wavering.

https://twitter.com/altheguardian13/status/848724115905105920
https://twitter.com/walshfreedom/status/847886664185901057

The racist saltine perspective...

 

[Trillfate]

That black interviewer pissed me off with his softball line of questioning..

A disgrace to Ed Bradley @obnoxiouslyfresh

 

[SolemnSauce]

David Shelby: To some extent, I think, well, there were two victims that day. I think Terence Crutcher and Betty Shelby.

Bill Whitaker: And Betty’s a victim of what?

David Shelby: The social and political climate in our country right now, it’s almost like there is a war on police. And I think that that’s what’s happened to Betty.

Bill Whitaker: Was Terence Crutcher’s an avoidable death?

Betty Shelby: Yes.

Bill Whitaker: Did this have to play out the way it did?

Betty Shelby: No.

Bill Whitaker: What would’ve changed things?

Betty Shelby: If he would’ve complied. If he would have communicated with me, if he would’ve just done as I asked him to do we would not be here. You and I would never have met and no one would ever know my name.

I mean, if that's the case, you could make the case that in every murder..the murderer is also the victim

 

[D. Morgan]

This bitch has been so coached for this interview and her trial.

This bitch first thought about a motionless man was if he was on PCP.

Google or youtube videos of people on PCP and tell me if they motionless.

She lying like shit.