By Bob Walsh
Steve Kunzweiler is the District Attorney in Tulsa. He announced on Thursday that Tulsa P. D. Officer Betty Shelby is being charged with first degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Terrence Crutcher, 40.
Officer Shelby fired on Crutcher after he refused to obey commands and immediately after he was Tasered ineffectively by another officer. Officer Shelby asserts that she believed that Crutcher was reaching for a weapon in his vehicle. There was in fact no weapon and some reports dispute her assertion that the window of the vehicle, which was sitting in the middle of the road with the engine running, was rolled down.
I strongly suspect that Officer Shelby is in for a rough road for the next several months.
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