09-22-2016, 12:49 PM
(09-22-2016, 11:20 AM)Duchess Wrote:(09-22-2016, 10:28 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: She stopped to investigate and says Crutcher (pictured right) walking towards her with his hands in the air (which she thought was weird,She is a stupid cow who has no business wearing the uniform nor carrying a gun. If I were black and in the presence of cops I would have my hands in the air too. That should have been enough to show every cop there that he was willing to comply but no, again it was just too much to ask that a LEO have a handle on what's going down. This crap is infuriating.
It doesn't make justifiable sense to me at this point either.
By all accounts, Terence Crutcher immediately put his hands in the air when confronted by Shelby. She and her partner radioed for back up when he reportedly wasn't responding to commands and he quickly had 4 or 5 cops all around him. He wasn't aggressive with the cops, but he was tased with his hands up against the car and then, simultaneously or immediately thereafter, he was fucking shot dead despite the fact that he was doing nothing threatening.
I hope it can be determined definitively from enhanced video whether the driver's side window was rolled up or down. In either case though, there was no gun in the vehicle, so Terence could not have been reaching for a gun. Plus, Shelby initially said she checked out the vehicle (when she thought it was abandoned, before she saw Terence walking towards her).
It doesn't add up to me. I won't be surprised if he was in fact on drugs, but that's irrelevant to me. Was he threatening the lives of others and was he shot in self defense? Sure as hell doesn't look that way to me based on what's available to the public at this time.