10-04-2016, 11:41 AM
(09-22-2016, 04:50 PM)sally Wrote: I think what he meant by saying he looks like a "bad dude" is that he looks big and tough. Either way that cop is a fucking idiot as well as the dumb bitch that shot the poor guy.
Officer Betty Shelby pleaded 'not guilty' to first degree manslaughter on Friday, but I think she's going down.
Her attorney says that she fatally shot Crutcher because he didn't get down on his knees when she told him to do so and so she feared he was going to kill her.
Shelby now claims that she wasn't even aware that several other cops had arrived with sirens blaring, that Crutcher had just been tased by another officer right in front of her, that another officer had a gun drawn on Crutcher, or that Crutcher was not resisting or doing anything aggressive when she pulled the trigger.
According to Shelby and her attorney, she was so stressed that she experienced "audio exclusion" and blocked out all the sounds around her. Apparently, the bitch went dumb and blind too -- otherwise, even if she did go temporarily deaf due to fear, it doesn't explain the shooting.
While research confirms that some people do experience auditory exclusion in stressful situations, Lori Brown, a professor of sociology at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, said she believes it’s dangerous to think a police officer would use auditory exclusion as a possible explanation for killing a man who was not doing anything aggressive.
“My response would be to focus on the research on implicit bias that, sadly, most of us have, even African-Americans, about black men, especially a larger black man and the fact that we tend to see them as threatening even when their behavior is in no way aggressive,” Brown said.
Shelby, 42, faces between four years and life in prison if convicted. She surrendered to authorities after being charged last week and is currently free on $50,000 bond.
Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/terence-crut...on-lawyer/