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A 17 year veteran with the Chicago police department was seriously beaten at an accident scene because of the National focus of police shootings of Black men and black lives matter in America. According to Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, the officer had told him that she did not use her gun for fear of backlash;

         "She didn’t want her family or the department to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news"

The officer had gotten into a fight with a man who was under the influence of PCP, after she had stopped near a crash site in the Austin community on the Westside on Wednesday morning.  

                         

The struggle between police officers and the man happened at near Roosevelt Road and Cicero Avenue at about 10 a.m. Police officers had seen a car crash inside a building, and saw the man walking towards the east on Roosevelt.

When officers stopped the man to talk to him, the man started struggling with them, hitting the female officer's head against the pavement till she was unconscious.

According to the police, the suspect smashed the face of the officer multiple times on the pavement, until she was unconscious. 

The officer's partner, then hit the man with a Taser and pepper spray, then get him arrested. Two other officers were injured before arresting the man, and all of them are now at Lutheran General, while the suspect was sent to Loretto Hospital.

According to police Superintendent Eddie Johnson; 

As I was at the hospital last night, visiting with her, she looked at me and said she thought she was gonna die, and she knew that she should shoot this guy, but she chose not to because she didn’t want her family or the department to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news.

 

This officer could (have) lost her life last night. He’s hospitalized right now, but she still has the spirit and the bravery that these officers and firefighters display every day — every day.  We have to change the narrative of the law enforcement across this country.

Civil right activist have argued that the people no longer trust police officers in the country after decades of abuse. According to Jon Loevy, a civil rights lawyer; 

Any fair-minded person acknowledges that police have a very difficult and dangerous job, and this sounds like a very unfortunate situation. The hope is that the department and the community can work to repair some of the lost trust so that officers won't always feel so second-guessed.

The suspect has three convictions of firearms arrest and one conviction, as well as another three arrests, following which he was charged by either resisting police, fleeing and eluding police or both, according to police.

 

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The officer involved in the Terrence Crutcher murder, officer Betty Shelby has now been charged with manslaughter by prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

The death of the African-American men have drawn debate nationwide after the officer claimed that Terrence was reaching for something inside his car, but the family of Terrence claimed they have the video, and the windows of the SUV were closed.

                     

According to the affidavit, Officer Betty was responding to a domestic call when he saw the SUV parked in a 2 lane road, blocking eastbound and westbound road.  The officer approached Terrence, who she claimed was mumbling and putting his hands in his pockets, and removing them.

Shelby then pulled out his weapon as officer Tyler Turnbough arrived at the scene and announce he is ready with a stun gun. 

Terrence then reached inside the car window of the SUV, prompting officer Tyler to use his stun gun, while officer Betty shot him in his right lung area, causing the man to fall down.

According to the document;

The officers at the scene found no weapons on or near Mr. Crutcher and no weapons were found near, inside, or in the vicinity of the vehicle. Officer Shelby made statements that she was in fear of her life and thought that Mr. Crutcher was going to kill her. When she began following Mr. Crutcher to the vehicle with her duty weapon drawn, she was yelling for him to stop and get on his knees repeatedly.

An arrest warrant for Shelby has now been issued, and an arrangement for her to surrender. 

In a statement by the state governor Mary Fallin, it reads;

 I pray this decision provides some peace to the Crutcher family and the people of Tulsa, but we must remain patient as the case works its way through the justice system, where a jury likely will be asked to decide whether officer Betty Shelby is guilty of the crime. And we must remember that in our justice system, officer Shelby is innocent until proven guilty.

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The police department policy on killing black men still continues despite protest by various groups. The recent victim of senseless police shooting is a 40-year-Old Terence Crutcher, who was shot and killed by white police officers on Friday night.

A dashcam video released today shows police responding to a call at 7:43pm on Friday night, Crutcher was then seen walking towards a parked SUV with a female police officer pointing a gun at his back and follows him. Three officers then run after the pair. Crutcher then lowers his hand into the car, then seconds after, the 40 year old man hits the ground.

              

Terence Crutcher died at the hospital where he was taken after he was shot. 

An independent investigation was opened by the Department of Justice into the Tulsa Police Department's use of force during the killing.

Officers were reported to be responding to a different incident when they noticed Crutcher SUV on the 2-lane road. The police was walking to the SUV when walker approached them. police spokeswoman  Jeanne MacKenzie said that he failed to follow orders, she said;

 They continued to talk to him, he continued not to listen and follow any commands.

The police chief, Chuck Jordan said that one shot was fired by the police, and a taser was also deployed by a second officer. There was no gun on Crutcher or inside his SUV.

The officer that shot Crutcher is Betty Shelby, who has worked for the Tulsa police department since  Dec. 1, 2011. At the time of the report, Betty has been placed under administrative leave with pay.

According to Shelby's lawyer, Scott Wood, she had seen the SUV on the road, but nobody was inside it, she had checked around, and saw nobody. When she turned around, she saw Cruthcher and gave him numerous commands, which he ignored. He did put his hands above his head  for “periods of time,” Wood said.

She then told him to stop and get down on his knees, but Crutcher then put his left hand inside the driver's side of the car, prompting the officer to fire her gun.

Demonstrators gathered around Tulsa police courthouse to protest Cructher's death.

Watch the video here:

             

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Police in South Florida gunned down a Black man,Gregory Frazier, 56, in his backyard in in Pompano Beach, while he was eating chicken wing on Friday evening.

The Broward Sheriff’s deputies had responded to a domestic violence call from Frazier sister, Deborah, after she claimed that Frazier and his daughter were involved in an altercation. When the officers arrived at the scene of the fight, the fight between the duo had ended.

                                     

The officers proceeded to Frazier backyard where he was having chicken wings. Officers ordered him to get on the ground,  and according to his nephew, he responded  “Leave me alone,” and he was once again instructed to get on the ground, and he gave the same response, that was when office fired shots at him.

The officers later tried to give him CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

                                      

Pastor Miguel Rosa, who was a neighbour to Frazier said he heard at least 5 shots, and he had thought it was fireworks.

According to Ms Frazier, she said;

I never would have called the cops if I’d known this was going to happen, they just came in and started shooting right away.

Ms Frazier while calling dispatcher had said that his brother was holding a knife, something he had always had with him. But it was not clear if Mr Frazier had the knife with him when he was asked to get on the ground by the police.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office representative could not comment on the case when asked, citing the case is currently under criminal investigation.

 

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