Tulsa policewoman found not guilty

[bobbieinok]

BBC today reports Tulsa jury found WHITE policewoman not guilty in shooting death of BLACK man who had car trouble. She claimed she thought he was reaching for gun, video showed him with hands up, no gun was found . . . We all know this story.

[JuJuYoshida]

1. smh, when will this end?

[GitRDun]

2. To be followed by

The obligatory wrongful death lawsuit settled out of court.

Another death caused by institutionalized fear of "the other"....swept under the rug.

We seem to learn nothing.

[WoonTars]

3. I just don't understand how a jury could do that...

Look at the fucking tape!!!!!

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. It's Oklahoma

I'm sure it was a jury of the policeman's peers. Not the victim's.

[HughBeaumont]

7. Especially when you consider he was tased AND shot.

Pull at your waist - get shot.
Raise your hands and put them on a closed window - get shot.
Have a toy gun in a store while black - get shot.
Lie on the ground with your hands up - get shot.
Be unarmed and selling cigarettes while black - get choked to death.
Run away from police - get shot in the back 8 times.

They get off because half the public refuses to believe there's even ONE bad cop. Remember the one juror in the Michael Slager trial . . . how he absolutely refused to believe he was guilty even though video evidence convicts him of murder? This is why he's being retried on civil rights violations . . . because they could NOT get a murder conviction.

Unbelievable.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[HughBeaumont]

4. Well, hey, at least she was inconvenienced with a trial, right?

And hey - how was she supposed to know whether Terrence Crutcher's outstretched hands were real or fake or not??

as if it needs to be said.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Again, why I hang up the phone when the thug union

comes calling for $$$$$$$.

[brush]

9. Same here. It's still open season on black men for killer cops. In Minnesota they're laying the...

the groundwork to get that other panicky killer cop off that murdered Philando Castile as he sat in his car with his girlfriend and child.

We all saw the facebook livestream killing of Castile.

Castile was a licensed carrier and he told the cop he had a gun and was going to produce it.

That's when the cop panicked, just like the killer cop in Tulsa, and just fired seven times into the car with three people in it.

The court has allowed alleged evidence that Castile had smoked weed sometime that day before he was killed, as if marijuana had something to do with a cop killing him.

Everyone knows that weed makes you peaceful but hey, what the hell, if it gets a white killer cop off, it's allowed.

[Dawson Leery]

14. The God Damn PIG Union was furious at Castile's funeral.

Mark Dayton attended, ordered flags to half mast, and Castile was brought in on a carriage with a riderless horse (symbolizing the loss of a leader).

The coppers murdered him, then had the nerve to demand the funeral be held according to their standards.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. But yeah, getting more women in the ranks is what will change policing.

[bobbieinok]

10. Crutcher's father

I believe Crutcher's father is a noted jazz musician with many awards.

[bobbieinok]

12. This plays on classic white fears

'Poor, defenceless white woman menaced by scary back man' Totally impossible to find a white woman guilty in this situation!! Would like to know who/what groups funded her defence. IIRC her husband is also on the force . . . And maybe was in helicopter above???

[Runningdawg]

13. The dog and pony show are over

everyone played their parts quite well and the jury returned the verdict everyone knew they would. Here in Tulsa, going by comments made in the Tulsa World and on social media some are still not happy, they didn't get their race riot.

[Blue_Tires]

15. Yep, just another one of us who "caused his own death"...

Why must we as black folks be so slipshod?

Perhaps Mrs. Shelby should find another line of work, if completely normal situations in broad daylight scare her enough to use lethal force...

[Blue_Tires]

16. The bottom line is NOTHING will change as long as cops feel

they can use unarmed PoC minding their own business as target practice without repercussion or reprisal (legal or otherwise)...

[MrScorpio]

17. Of course, she was found not guilty

This is still America after all.

Being black in this country has never stopped being a crime.