Watching “60 Minutes” tonight with my wife, I felt so sorry about seeing Terence Crutcher, an Afro-American being shot(killed) by Tulsa officer, Betty Shelby. Ms. Shelby claims it was self-defense, that Crutcher did not obey her command of stepping away from his automobile, and raise his hands, she thought he was going to reach for a weapon, and perhaps shoot her, she was just doing her job, but this time, she was protecting herself. Even though for the past couple of years we have had numerous deadly shootings by white cops killing Blacks, and this would of not happened if victims were White, whatever, do our law and enforcement officers have to kill?
I guess it’s so easy for me to say this, I would probably fainted and got shot myself, I never fired a gun or used a taser, so who is right, and who is wrong in this situation? In Officer Shelby’s case, she acted in a pure panic, maybe not, did Mr. Crutcher acted correctly, no, he was killed, could this have been prevented, YES?
This incident, and the more to come killings could of been prevented, if we could use some of our building the Mexican Wall budget, and the defense budget on giving our police, the proper protective gear that they need, to stop people who point guns, or don’t listen to our law enforcers when it comes to raising their hands up in the air and dropping their gums, our cops need body suits, and ear deafening speaking devices that will completely protect them when they nay face a life taken altercation, let’s say a bullet proof body suit equip with a possible 150db speaker, in essence a human encased robot. Criminals, I think would think twice before they seek an altercation.
You are probably asking me, what would happen if the criminals also have the same kind of body suits? Good question, give e some time to answer this, maybe “60 Minutes” might run a future episode? For now former officer Shelby faces at least a four year to perhaps a twenty five sentence for a unjustified murder, and we can only offer our prayers to Terence Crutcher’s family,