The trial is on. Betty Shelby will face a jury for the death of unarmed man.
Betty Shelby was hoping to have the grand jury throw out her murder charge on the grounds of self-defense. She thought wrong. Trial's on.
She is accused of shooting Terrence Crutcher in the summer of 2016. She was responding to another call when she spotted his vehicle in the middle of the road. She immediately investigated the situation. Crutcher at first seemed to cooperate with her order but refused to listen because he was allegedly high on PCP. She would shoot and kill Terrence upon him getting near his vehicle.
Upon inspection, he had no firearm on him.
Again, I highly doubt she'll be convicted given the track record. The track record of officers getting away with murder is why it's sparking tension between police and the communities they're supposed to protect.
Will his family see justice?
Assured that for every bad cop, a good cop will likely be killed. It's the damn truth. If the police departments refuse to root out the wrong, then the wrong will get them.
These high profile police shootings of unarmed Black people has sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. And it's told that many activists are concerned that the court system is rigged to let cops get away with murder.
Shelby wants to get this dismissed on grounds of self-defense. She wants the court to dig up his past convictions to justify her use of deadly force.
She could face LIFE in the iron college for the charges. She is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Unrepentant motorist gets LIFE for her callous attack on innocent parade watchers.
Adacia Chambers, the woman who ran her vehicle through a crowd of people in Stillwater, Oklahoma found justice. She was given a LIFE sentence in the iron college after the jury convicted her of murdering four people on her mission.
According to the law, she was under the influence when she decided to plow through the homecoming parade for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Chambers was sentenced after pleading no contest to four counts of second-degree murder and 39 counts of assault and battery.
She was fired out the cannon at Freddy's Custard and Steakburgers for being on drugs. She got angry and decided to end her life by taking out others.
Nash Lucas, a toddler, Nakita Prabhakar, a 23 year old MBA student at Oklahoma State and a married couple Bonnie and Marvin Stone, both 65 lost their lives to this unrepentant terrorist.
Her defense for this act of terrorism was mental issues. The jury said she showed intent.
Prosecutors says Chambers steered her car around a police barricade and sped up before plowing into spectators.
Chambers will now have a chance to appeal the decision. Unfortunately, the LIFE sentence does carry a chance a parole. After serving at least 30 years in the iron college, she may have an out.
Joe Mixon regrets the encounter. His reputation as an abuser of women sticks.
Oklahoma Sooners tailback Joe Mixon faces the wrath of the junk food media after he served a woman a knuckle style chili. The victim finally speaks out and demands accountability.
Back in 2014, Mixon entered Pickleman's Cafe and walked up upon Amelia Molitor. They had a brief engagement. Amelia would shove him and slap him over the face. That's when he served her a knuckle style chili.
Apparently she called him a NIGGER before she shove him.
Watch the video. It's disturbing.
The force laid her out. She had to get her jaw wired shut. She now suffers from PTSD and fears the retribution from the public for telling her story. She had ended her social media ties after the alt-right started trolling her with death threats and "That's what you get" remarks.
Now in Euless, Texas, Amelia is back in the spotlight telling her story.
"I though that every single person looked at me knew me and hated me," she told the junk food media.
Much of the criticism was focused on her and not Mixon. The social media wanted to shame her for slapping Mixon. They passed around the public records of her arrest for minor weed possession.
Molitor quit her job and went into hiding. She feared the video will not tell the complete story. She admits slapping him but there's more to the story.
Mixon was charged with a misdemeanor for the serving her knuckle style chili and he entered a plea.
He was given in-house and 100 hours of community control and anger management.
The public release of the video should get him fired out the cannon. But is it too late?
He got freezer burn for the 2014 season and was able to play in 2015 and present season. He will be participating in the Sugar Bowl on January 2. This could be his last game with the Sooners.
But with this video release, will this affect his chances with the NFL if he is enlisting for the draft?
Will the release of the Joe Mixon assault tape affect his chances with the NFL?
I want to say that Mixon was wrong. He should have at least tried to walk away and got the attention of the police. I mean he might have jeopardized his career because of this.
Mixon's attorneys said that he formally apologized to Amelia and hopes to put this ugly thing behind him.
I blame Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Mary Fallin, James Lankford and Jim Inhofe for the actions of Joe Mixon. They allowed this young man to punch this woman in the face. They don't support funds for assault victims. They allowed that corrupt Tulsa cop Betty Shelby murder Terence Crutcher. They allowed earthquakes disrupt the state's natural beauty because of their obsession to look for Black gold, Texas tea.
Terence Crutcher had PCP in blood. The law trying to justify his brutal killing by Tulsa's police officer Betty Shelby. The woman is facing manslaughter charges.
The junk food media is reporting that unarmed Terence Crutcher had traces of PCP in his blood.
Now the suspect, ex-Tulsa officer Betty Shelby is trying to justify her deadly use of force by saying she "feared for her life" after learning that Terence was acting crazy.
The county prosecutor handed her manslaughter charge which could put her in the iron college for LIFE.
Terence's SUV was parked in the middle of the road when Shelby was responding to another call, records show. Police said that Shelby saw a vehicle in the road en route to another call.
Witness said that Terence said that his SUV was about to blow up and she thought it was smoking or something.
Betty Shelby's mugshot.
When she called for backup and asked for assistance, Crutcher was walking with his hands up towards his vehicle.
According to the bag 'em ups, Terence was hit in the chest by a single gunshot.
The bag 'em up said that he had traces of phencyclidine in his system. Now the pro-cop agitators and trolls believe that being high is justifiable for death.
Damn shame.
For those who throw stones in glass houses. It could have been you!
This is the mugshot of the Tulsa cop who killed an unarmed man. They're so determined to smear, slander, besmirch the name of a Black man who was fatally shot by this cop's reckless call. She turned her ass over to authorities overnight. She was released on a $55,000 out of a $500,000 get out free card.
A man with his hands in the air, mind you being shot while walking towards his car.
Tulsa Police officer Betty Shelby is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. She was the officer who is facing manslaughter charges in the first degree. That charge could put her in the iron college from four years to LIFE.
The mugshot will be shown soon. But in the meantime, we'll see how this play out. Of course don't hold your breathe for a conviction. After all, many officers usually get off a murder charge. The indictment alone isn't enough.
The only way the public will be satisfied is the cop being indicted for the charges.
District Attorney Stephen Kunzweiler announced today that this officer will face a judge.
Her attorney and the police union will speak on this latest development in the case.
Shelby's attorney said that she opened fire because she feared that Terence was grabbing a weapon.
Yeah right. She was surrounded by at least five officers. Tulsa Police failed to find a weapon on him.
The junk food media reported that the Shelby had two bad marks on her record as a Tulsa Police officer.
Terence Crutcher was gunned down by a Tulsa cop who made a reckless call.
The suspect's family said that she's feeling remorse and sympathy for the family. The suspect's husband was a part of the police helicopter unit. It's revealed that one of the pilots of the helicopter said that "he was a bad dude, probably on something." The name of the pilot isn't revealed yet.
When Sean "Softball" Hannity tried to claim that Terence Crutcher was wanted for numerous charges, the local agitator shut that shit down. The most annoying conservative agitator in the junk food media had this Black America town hall in Cleveland this week. This is a flop. Donald Trump spoke to a mostly White audience. Trump raised eyebrows when he said he endorses a national stop-and-frisk policy.
The softball tried to lump all of Black America's problems on Barack Obama, the first Black president. He tries and fails so miserably it's laughable.
Now he's back to his old tricks again. He tried to smear Terence by saying that he "had a long criminal history and appeared to be under the influence."
The junk food media trying to paint this officer as a "good guy".
The softball would say to a local agitator if Terence had any warrants for his arrest.
Russell Mills, a local agitator from KRMG-TV said that he has no evidence of Terence being a wanted criminal.
"Well I read that there was numerous warrants out for his arrest including one assault on an officer and drug trafficking," said the softball.
Well I'll tell you I looked up his history and I'm not seeing a lot of criminal history. We have something called the OSCN, the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network. I was able to find a protective order from 12 years ago that was dismissed. I found a couple of financial things. There's no violent criminal history for Mr. Crutcher that I've been able to uncover."
The softball would keep pressing on saying that these reports about no criminal history being false.
"Are those reports incorrect?" Hannity continued.
"As far as I know they are. I have not seen any reporting on any warrants for Mr. Crutcher and I certainly haven't uncovered any myself," Mills told the softball.
"There has been some misinformation floated," Mills said to knock down the softball's attempt to cast a dead victim as a criminal thug.
"He did not have any warrants. He had not done anything wrong. He had a malfunctioning vehicle, and he should have been treated accordingly," Crutcher family attorney Melvin Hall told the Chicago Tribune this week. The paper reported, however, that Crutcher did serve four years in prison from 2007 to 2011 on a Tulsa County drug-trafficking conviction.
Nonetheless, this divisive agitator is once again playing this game of blaming the victim for his own death. He's been on this kick of attacking President Barack Obama for the unrest in America.
Donald Trump lays out his message to the nation. In an astonishing 76 minutes, Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president has went there. I mean it was long rant about how Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Muslims, immigrants, those who criticizes law enforcement being the enemy.
I will be blunt, I tuned out after 20 minutes. It was the longest and most unimpressive speech ever.
Trump was still in primary mode. He was hoping to bring the Republicans together. Alas, he didn't.
Someone on the inside allegedly leaked out Trump's acceptance speech tonight. The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign had all the ammunition to take down Trump.
Okay, I won't bore you too much with the details but it's the list of talkers who ended up on the floor before The Donald made his plea for president.
Ex-OKC officer Daniel Holtzclaw found guilty of rape.
The former Oklahoma City Police officer who ran a pimp game was served. He was found guilty for first-degree rape. An all White jury listened to the testimony of victims who were raped by this crooked piece of shit.
He got fired out the cannon after his superiors seen evidence of misconduct. This misconduct may hurt the relations with the Black community.
The victims were Black women who were on the stroll. The jury saw that Daniel Holtzclaw was guilty of rape and forcible oral sodomy on Thursday.
Holtzclaw faced a total of 36 charges. He got teary eyed when the jury ruled his fate.
This controversy touched the nerve of the community. It dealt with race, policing, and the blue wall of silence.
This situation wasn't getting much attention in the junk food media.
Holtzclaw played the "I'll look the other way" when it came to the criminal activity around Oklahoma City. He had a beat on the stroll. The stroll was Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City. The stroll is notorious for ladies of the stroll to make $$$$$$$. It's a notorious area for human trafficking and pimping. The ladies were either low level drug offenders and some the ladies may have been HIV-positive. Some ladies would "honey trap" tricks into an area where the pimp or gang members would rob or brutalize the trick.
Prosecutors alleged that Holtzclaw would try to use his badge and charm to con ladies into sexual acts. Some of the women were violators of the road. He would look the other way if they would let him get a feel or a top off.
He told a victim that he get them off their drug charges if they promise to just look the other way and disappear for awhile.
Brian Bates, the Video Vigilante of Oklahoma City. He and his cameramen go through the streets of Oklahoma City to shame men who pick up prostitutes.
When Holtzclaw got off work, he would tell the victims to meet him at a location of his choosing and he would take them home and forcibly rape them.
The junk food media gave Holtzclaw a glaring spotlight before his downfall. He grew up Enid, Oklahoma. He was a star middle linebacker for Eastern Michigan University's football team. He graduated with a degree in criminal justice. He has family involved in law enforcement.
Holtzclaw is born half White and half Japanese. He was accused of raping 13 women, all Black, while he was on duty. Courts says that he identifies himself as "Asian".
Question: Would they give a Black criminal a glaring spotlight?
Well all that shit isn't relevant. What's relevant is the fact that this dangerous man is off the streets.
What's relevant is that this man is charged with rape, sodomy, stalking, sexual battery, robbery, burglary, indecent exposure, forcible oral sodomy, and misconduct as an officer.
The Video Vigilante films two ladies of the stroll. The one who wearing the boots is a notorious geeker named "Sweets". She is a "honey trap" who sets up her tricks.
RAPE IN OKLAHOMA COULD CARRY LIFE IN THE IRON COLLEGE. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF THE RAPE CHARGES. NOW THE SAME JURY OR ANOTHER JURY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HANDING HIS SENTENCE.
I am guessing this sorry excuse for a human being is on "suicide watch" and will appeal his conviction.
Brian Bates, the Oklahoma City Video Vigilante dealt with this stuff for years. On his YouTube page and his website JohnTV.com, he takes the opportunity to shame tricks who use his city as a sexual playground.
Brian may have had a part in bringing down Holtzclaw. I am guessing he's aware of those lawmen who engage with the ladies of the stroll.
Woman accused of driving her vehicle through a parade crowd killing four and injuring dozens.
Tragedy in Stillwater, Oklahoma. There was a woman today being held on a murder charge. She was behind the wheel of a car when she allegedly plowed into people watching a parade for the Oklahoma State Cowboys football homecoming.
The BIG 12 Cowboys are ranked 14 in the National College Football Standings.
This 25 year old woman may face LIFE in the iron college if they determined that her actions resulted in murder.
The suspect Adacia Chambers is held in the lockup.
Plowed through.
Chambers drove her car through a crowd killing four and injuring 22 people. Of the living, eight of them have life-threatening injuries. Some have walking wounds.
The witness say that she was plowing through the crowd at speeds totally 50 mph.
The suspect in today's incident in Stillwater, Adacia Chambers, has been booked into the Payne Co jail @NEWS9pic.twitter.com/n5yzYX5Jqp
After exiting her vehicle, Chambers was arrested for driving under the influence. Police have stated that it will be “several days” before the full facts of the incident will be released. She was booked and is currently at Payne County Lockup.
At the scene, multiple choppers were used to airlift victims to Stillwater Medical Center. Multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in the recovery process. The accident occurred at the corner of Hall of Fame and Main Street, a very populated area just two blocks from the football stadium.
World News Today send our condolences to those lost today in this senseless tragedy.
The fight for freedom rest at the hands of Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin. Tondalo Hall got 30 years in the iron college for allowing child abuse in her home. Her ex-boyfriend managed to get two years. Some are calling foul.
A woman gets 30 years in the iron college. She got the short end of a huge stick. The state of Oklahoma determined that she was liable for living her child in the hands of a monster. She was sentenced to the iron college for 15 years. She went to appeal her case, but ended up getting more time added on.
The monster abused the child but ended up getting only two years in the iron college.
The woman ends up being denied parole. She got a handful of add-ons. Those add-ons will keep her in the iron college for up to 15 more years.
Black Lives Matter managed to bring this to attention and it's getting some national exposure.
Tondalo Hall was sent to the iron college along with her boyfriend at the time Robert Braxton Jr.
Braxton was the father of Tondalo's daughter. He would be extremely abusive to their child.
The Oklahoman (NewsOk) reports that Braxton admitted to breaking the leg, ribs and toe of his 3-month-old daughter, didn’t go to prison. In a plea agreement made during his criminal trial, he received a sentence of two years, which he had already spent in jail awaiting trial. He was released.
In her commutation application, and in testimony at Braxton’s trial, Hall described physical violence she suffered at the hands of Braxton while they were living together. Hall’s supporters say her sentence unfairly punishes a domestic violence survivor more harshly than her abuser.
Supporters want Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin to grant clemency to Tondalo Hall.
Even after their arrests in the abuse case, Braxton continued to harass and threaten her in the jail transport van as the two were taken to hearings at the Oklahoma County courthouse, Hall wrote.
Both her appeal and her request to have the state Supreme Court review her case were denied. Because permitting child abuse is a so-called 85 percent crime — meaning she must serve at least 85 percent of her sentence — the earliest she would eligible for release is 2030, assuming she receives early release credits and is paroled.
Her actual sentence ends in 2034 — when she’ll be 50 years old and her daughter, who was an infant when Hall was arrested, will be 30.
At Hall’s Dec. 20, 2006, sentencing, Angela Marsee, then a prosecutor for the Oklahoma District Attorney’s Office, told the judge that Hall should spend a significant portion of her life in prison. Two months earlier, Hall had entered a blind plea, meaning she pleaded guilty without the promise of a certain sentence. Just a few weeks earlier, Braxton’s case was resolved through a plea agreement on the fourth day of his trial.
Robert Braxton, Jr.
Marsee, who is now the district attorney for Beckham, Custer, Ellis, Roger Mills and Washita counties, originally wanted a life sentence for both Braxton and Hall, court transcripts reveal. She blames Hall for the deal Braxton received.
“Her testimony at the trial ... was the biggest factor into the sentence he got,” Marsee said. “She was the caretaker and the mother of these children. She was the one person in the position at the trial to make sure justice was served.”
At sentencing, Marsee told the judge she thought Hall was continuing to minimize what she saw or knew about her children being abused.
But Hall described how Braxton was continuing to harass her. He wrote her letters while they were both in the Oklahoma County jail and acted “mad” that she was going to testify at his trial, Hall testified. And even the judge — Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott — admitted Hall seemed scared of Braxton. He said he factored that into her sentence, according to court transcripts.
When Hall met Braxton, she was a teenage mother who had dropped out of school in the 10th grade. She had been adopted as a baby and raised by loving parents. But her adoptive mother had died and her father was ill prepared to support a teen mom, court records show.
Hall and Braxton moved in together in 2004, and they had two children together.
At Braxton’s trial, Hall began describing how Braxton once strangled her on the couch of their apartment because he said she had a “smart mouth.” In her commutation application, she said Braxton regularly choked her, blackened her eyes, threw objects at her and verbally assaulted her in front of her children.
“I did not escape the relationship out of fear that Robert would file for custody of our children and I would never be allowed to see them again. This fear came from his repeated statements that if I ever left him, he would take our children and I would never see them,” Hall wrote.
Sometime in early November 2004, she noticed her toddler’s leg was swollen. She called her pediatrician’s office and they told her to put ice on it. She did. She also questioned Braxton about what could have happened to the boy, and Braxton denied knowing anything, Hall testified at her trial.
After a couple of days, during which the boy whined and had trouble using the leg, she took him to the hospital, where it was determined the boy had a broken femur and broken ribs. Braxton and Hall were arrested, and investigators determined their youngest child, who was 3 months old, had similar injuries.
When questioned, Hall originally told investigators she squeezed the boy’s ribs and threw him onto a bed. But she later admitted that wasn’t true. She says she wasn’t truthful because she was afraid of Braxton.
In her commutation application, Hall says if she could go back in time, she would seek help from a domestic violence shelter.
“I am responsible for failing my family — for not predicting what Robert was capable of and for placing my children in a dangerous situation.”
“Despite my failures, I did not physically abuse my children. I was an active parent and proud mother. I loved and cared for my children and would appreciate the opportunity to watch them grow up,” she continued.
Hall hasn’t been disciplined for misbehavior since she’s been in prison and she earned her GED in 2013; she’s being held at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud.
Hall applied for clemency in October.
The state Pardon and Parole Board hasn’t considered a commutation in months and more than 100 applications await consideration, some dating back to 2013, said Jari Askins, who served as interim board director from September to March.
“I chose to address the backlog of pardons first and wait until we had a new board appointed to address commutations,” she said.
The board’s new director, Van Guillotte, and the new board, most of whom were appointed this year, are expected to establish commutation procedures and begin considering applications again.
In commutations, recommendations made by the board are just that — recommendations. The final decision lies with the governor, who has made no public comment on the case.
UltraViolet, an advocacy group against sexism, and the Oklahoma Coalition For Reproductive Justice have voiced support for Hall.
One of the offensive right wing emails depicting President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and former Attorney General Eric Holder as prison inmates.
Conservatives might want to put away the champagne bottles cause it's not going to happen.
President Barack Obama is going to Oklahoma to do tour of a federal time out facility and speak to some of the inmates (mostly non-violent drug offenders and white collar offenders).
He will be the first sitting president to ever visit a federal time out.
This will be a push for criminal justice reform.
He will met Republican Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin and the warden of El Reno Federal Corrections. They will tour the facility on Thursday.
Vice will record the president's visit to the prison. The documentary will featured on HBO this year.
The White House confirms that its backing behind a bipartisan bill that would slash mandatory minimum sentences for many non-violent drug offenders.
Obama commuted the sentences of 22 drug offenders in March, the most aggressive use of his executive power to date to address the issue.
He has spoken out more frequently about the adverse effect current sentencing guidelines have on communities of color.
During a March interview with David Simon, the creator of HBO’s “The Wire,” Obama decried “the massive trend towards incarceration, even of non-violent drug offenders.”
“The challenge, which you depict in your show, is folks going in at great expense to the state, many times trained to become more hardened criminals while in prison, come out and are basically unemployable,” he said.
Robert Bates wants to celebrate the last moments of his freedom by taking a trip out of the country. Will he come back?
Robert Bates, the reserve deputy who shot an unarmed suspect with his firearm thinking he deployed a Taser is out on bail and he's thinking about escaping to a place where he may feel a little heat.
A paradise. The island nation of the Bahamas is where Bates is hoping to take a vacation to while he's awaiting a second degree manslaughter trial.
The family of Eric Harris is none too happy about this news.
Bates' lawyers told the judge that Bates, a reserve deputy with the Tulsa County sheriff's office, and his family planned to take their previously planned vacation ahead of his next court date in July.
"It's really not an issue," Corbin Brewster, one of Bates' attorneys, said in an interview after the hearing.
Harris' family criticized the trip, saying it sends a message "of apathy with respect to the shooting and Eric's life."
"At a time when we are still mourning the death of a loved one that he shot down in the street, Mr. Bates will be relaxing and enjoying his wealth and privilege," the family said in a statement released Tuesday.
They want this guy's restrictions either in the county lockup or watching the Bahamas on television.
Because if he could get out on a minimum bond, then the perception of White privilege and favoritism comes to mind.
What if he eludes custody? If he's a flight risk and he manages to escape authorities to a nation that doesn't extradite criminals back to the United States, what will they do now?
Eric Harris (right) was killed after Bates, a reserve deputy shot him. Harris was unarmed at apprehension.
Bates is good buddies with the Tulsa County sheriff and Tulsa Metro police. He personally knows the Sheriff of the Tulsa County.
He plead not guilty and he's decided to promise to return back to court once he gets his vacation over with.
CBS News reports that Bates was charged after the sheriff's office released video of the shooting, in which Bates is overheard apologizing for shooting the suspect.
Harris' family has questioned whether Bates was qualified to conduct police work. Their attorneys allege that the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office violated several of its own policies by not keeping a permanent record of Bates' certifications and allowing him to carry his personal handgun after training on another weapon.
But Sheriff Stanley Glanz said Bates - his longtime insurance agent and former campaign manager - had been properly trained and passed annual firearms certifications required by the state.
Bates, who sold his insurance business for $6 million in 1999, was trained to be a Tulsa Police Department patrolman in 1964, but he left the department in 1965.
He was out of law enforcement for 35 years before returning for volunteer work in Florida in 2000, and the Tulsa County force in 2008. Bates also made several donations to the Tulsa County sheriff's office, and was Glanz' campaign manager during the 2012 election.
On Monday, Glanz said he's known Bates for about 25 years and said that at one time, the two had traveled to the Bahamas together with other colleagues.
The Tulsa Police release the video of unarmed suspect Eric Harris purchasing an unregistered firearm. He would run and eventually get caught. But in the apprehension an elderly reserve officer would "accidentally" fire his service weapon instead of his Taser. Harris was shot and killed. The Department of Justice is investigating this situation.
In Tulsa, OK there's a controversy. A suspect who was unarmed was shot by a reserve cop who thought he had drawn the Taser. The suspect would later die of his injuries. The Oklahoma State Patrol Enforcement Agency is looking into the death of Eric C. Harris.
This shooting follows a few high profile shootings such as the Walter Scott and Michael Brown shooting.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Eric Harris.
Harris was under investigation for purchasing firearms. While in a police pursuit, Harris would exit the vehicle. The arresting officer would tackle him down.
But in a few seconds, the reserve officer drew the firearm. He would shoot Harris in the back. The officers who restrained him were cursing at him after Harris screamed he was shot by the reserve officer.
Reserve officer Robert Bates inadvertently shot Harris when he was confronting him. Tulsa Police are defending the 73-year old reserve deputy.
This was recorded on body cameras and yet it still didn't make a lick of difference.
Cops told Eric Harris despite being unarmed and shot in the back, he fucking ran! I guess it's perfectly legal to shoot a fleeing suspect if he's not even armed!
CNN reports that the reserve deputy who shot the suspect with his firearm rather than his stun gun, and another deputy who can be heard cursing at the suspect after he was shot, were not in their normal states of mind because of the elevated stress of apprehending the suspect, according to a Tulsa, Oklahoma, investigator.
As deputies tried to handcuff Harris, Bates arrived with a pepper spray gun in hand. He warned his fellow deputies he was going to use a Taser on the suspect, but instead, he fired a single gunshot — and immediately apologized, Clark said, citing a recently released video.
Clark attributed Bates’ actions to a phenomenon known as “slip and capture.” An example is when someone who drives a car with a manual transmission gets behind the wheel of a car with an automatic transmission. The driver will press her or his left foot down when stopping abruptly, even though there’s no clutch pedal, he said.
Tulsa Police Sgt. Jim Clark was emphatic that Bates had done nothing criminally wrong and went so far as to say the reserve deputy was a victim.
“Reserve Deputy Bates did not commit a crime. Reserve Deputy Bates was a victim, a true victim of slip and capture,” he said. “There’s no other determination I could come to.”
‘He shot him!’
Reserve officer Robert Bates is on leave.
When they set up the undercover sting, police wanted evidence on camera. But when they recorded the operation targeting Harris earlier this month, cameras continued to roll as the suspect ran, and as he was fatally shot.
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office released the video on Friday. The shooting was an apparent accident, it has said.
In the last minutes of the video, Harris lies on the pavement with police on top of him.
An officer calls for a Taser, but in place of an electric clicking sound, a gunshot rings out.
A voice can be heard saying, “Oh! I shot him! I’m sorry!” Another officer screams out, “He shot him! He shot him!”
Harris, who is bleeding, calls out, too. He’s losing his breath, he says. An officer yells back at him.
“You fucking ran! Shut the fuck up!” he yells. “Fuck your breath,” he said.
Clark defended the officer’s language, saying the deputy experienced auditory exclusion, never heard the gunshot and thought the suspect was out of breath from running. The language has no bearing on whether the shooting was justified, Clark said.
“One deputy thought he was going to have to shoot this person at the arrest site. It’s very upsetting when you think you are going to have to take someone’s life and this deputy, one of the involved deputies, was upset,” he said. “Secondly, this is total stress. They are going after a dangerous suspect that they have no idea whether or not this person is armed.”
Clark added, “They did not know that he was shot at this time. They had audio exclusion. They was at a point where they couldn’t hear. They didn’t even hear the gunshot go off. The officers did not know that Mr. Harris had been shot.”
An officer can be seen in the video taking his foot off an object lying on the pavement not far from Harris.
Tulsa Police are doing damage control after an elderly cop shot an unarmed man.
Shortly after the suspect is shot, the officers begin tugging Harris’ hands behind his back as the video ends.
Harris later died at a local hospital. Police said at the time of the shooting that Harris admitted to medics at the scene that he may have been under the influence of phencyclidine, a street drug commonly known as PCP.
The video is edited to block out the officers’ faces. Harris is clearly visible.
Police have said that Harris had reached for his waistband, and officers feared he might endanger them. When Harris was on the ground, he “refused to pull his left arm from underneath his body where his hand was near his waistband,” they said after the shooting.
The officer’s body camera video did not reveal that area of Harris’ body.
Bates, a former Tulsa police officer, was placed on administrative leave after the shooting, the sheriff’s office has said.
Asked whether Bates’ age may have been a factor in the shooting, Clark said, “It’s happened to 21-year-old law enforcement officers. It’s happened to 30-year-old law enforcement officers. Age is not really a factor in consideration for the dynamics behind slip and capture events.
BlackLivesMatter. What image will the racist right use?
Despite the details released over the weekend, Harris’ brother says he still want answers.
“I want to know if he was shot in the back accidentally or on purpose. These are all the things that not only I want, but the public wants,” Andre Harris told CNN affiliate KTUL.
Bates’ attorney, Scott Wood, told CNN on Friday he would contact the network later. He had not issued a statement or called back as of Sunday.
With that said, what do you think?
Should Bates be charged with murder?
The Tulsa police are giving him a "pass" because he made a mistake. Looks like the U.S. Justice Department and FBI are investigating this.
They put an explicit lyrics tag on Waka Flocka Flame's albums. I don't get the fact that the racist right would target rap music. It's probably one of the most successful music genres. It's controversial but it's considered art.
Brick Squad Monopoly CEO Waka Flocka (Flame) (aka Juaquin Malphurs) goes to the junk food media to explain why he cancelled his upcoming concert at the University of Oklahoma.
You may have heard or viewed the controversial chants of ΣΑΕ (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) saying they'll never be "NIGGER". And yes, it's been heard. All over the world.
Now OU president David Boren dropped the hammer on this frat and kicked them off the property.
A rolling boycott was enabled by the athletic recruits dropping OU as a choice. There's a silent protest at the ΣΑΕ chapters. The controversy has made the rapper a target of criticism from Obama News, Loserville and that old fart on AM radio.
Blow Joe and Mika Brzezinski both got on this bandwagon.
The duo first talked about rapper Waka Flocka Flame's "disgust" with the video and his decision to cancel his upcoming campus appearance before going into the discussion about rap music being the core issue for the frat's racist behavior.
"If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that he's written, it's a bunch of garbage," Brzezinski said. "It's full of N-words, it's full of F-words. It's wrong. And he shouldn't be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself."
Blow Joe and Mika Brzezinski.
"The kids that are buying hip-hop or gangster rap, it's a white audience, and they hear this over and over again," Scarborough added. "So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked."
Brzezsinski later clarified her comments in another appearance on MSNBC by saying, "The students in the video are responsible for their behavior. And as we said on our show this morning, they did it, and it's beyond appalling. In no way is anybody else to blame for what they did on that bus. They are responsible and they made that choice."
Waka Flocka goes to Now with Alex Wagner to vent off the criticism thrown by the hosts of Morning Joe. The rapper also dismissed the claim that rap music is the cause of White people acting like a bunch of racist fools.
Of course that old fart was bitching about the OU Frat boys and he compared it to Kanye West.
"If this had been a song by Kim Kardashian's husband [Kanye West] and they had sung this song at the Grammys...it'd be a hit,"
It's the blame game....
O' Let's Do It.....
Blow Joe and Mika ranting on Waka.
Waka Flocka responds to Blow Joe.
That old fart bitching about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Someone really hates ΣΑΕ (Sigma Alpha Epsilom). The president of the Sooners, David Boren kicked the assholes out of their fraternity, knocked them out of their home and told them all to be prepared to face the consequences.
Me and S. Baldwin have covered this controversy in Norman. The University of Oklahoma is under fire. Their frat boys are making a total embarrassment of their campus. Now more videos unearthed more idiocy.
Beauton Gilbow is a ΣΑΕ "Mom" and in a social media video she appears to say NIGGER more than her fair share of times. And it appears that she may be intoxicated. But nonetheless, it was said and she got fired out the cannon. She condemned the frat boys and tearfully apologized for her actions.
The New York Daily News ragged that Gilbow was NIGGER chanting while the frat boys were listening to Think It's A Game artist Trinidad James. It was "All Gold Everything".
The video kind of put the brakes on some of ΣΑΕ's remorseful members aiding her in her sudden loss of job.
The ΣΑΕ's Black cook had to suffer. The man named "Howard" was the cook for the frat boys.
He was totally devastated by this news. Especially for the fact that some of his "family" were so boldly acting like this.
With this controversy surfacing the damages became apparent when Boren kicked everyone off the campus, he meant everyone. The cook is out of a job. Some of the remorseful members created a GoFundMe page to help him gain a job and financial assistance.
These leaks of videos comes like drips. The online activism from Anonymous comes to mind. It has all the traces of it. But then it could be a disgruntled (likely ΣΑΕ) member of the frat.
And to make this worse, a college football team with strong recognition is being passed off.
Most of them football standouts are Black and they're passing on the Sooners.
That pass on could hurt the campus. Those standouts are the money makers. The NCAA could put the hammer on the football and basketball teams. Obviously these events bring in major dollars.
Of course, the hockey, lacrosse, baseball and wrestling suffer. Their marching band suffers.
Mary Fallin, the current Republican governor of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-OK) were shocked and told the junk food media that "racism" has no place in Oklahoma.
“The racist words chanted by the students in this video do not represent OU values or Oklahoma values. As the outrage among Oklahomans has demonstrated, we are a state that does not tolerate that kind of disrespectful behavior. I appreciate President Boren as well as OU’s faculty, staff and students for quickly condemning these hurtful words and demonstrating the true nature of our Oklahoma community, which is diverse, compassionate and respectful," said Governor Mary Fallin.
Lankford said “The hateful video of some fraternity students that surfaced over the weekend is disgusting and does not reflect the values of the state of Oklahoma. This is not who we are. We are a state that embraces cultural and ethnic diversity at every level. We must clearly speak out against this type of bigotry. Our state has made significant strides since the Tulsa race riots and the days when Clara Luper led our state out of ignorance; we must continue that progress.”
No sign of comment from Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). He's too busy bringing snowballs to the Senate floor to deny climate change.
Wink and nod....
These Republicans support this nonsense. It looks good to be on camera condemning racism. Because it's in their backyard. When the cameras are not running, I bet you that these Republican elected leaders are chanting "Ol they'll never be a NIGGER!"
Republicans are in need of some major improvement.
When it comes to race, the Republicans are too busy trying to undermining the first Black president and the millions of people of color.
Fallin is one of many supporters of the controversial lawsuit trying to gut the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). She signed on to suing the government over the president's executive order to ease restrictions on young undocumented immigrants.
Lankford was one of the 47 senators who supported Stallmigo Tom Cotton's (R-AR) threatening letter to Iran.
The White House weigh in on the controversy. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden said that OU president Boren's actions were appropriate. This is a reminder that the long road ahead in equal rights for all Americans.
They'll never be a fraternity that chants racism at the Sooner Nation. The University of Oklahoma puts the brakes on frat boys and their chapter.
Okie Dokie! Here's a controversy riding the horse. The University of Oklahoma had to do some apologizing for one of its fraternities and their "epic fail".
Sigma Alpha Epsilon got a major pull out! The Sooners had to pull the plug on the fraternity after it was revealed a disturbing video of White frat boys shouting and jigging on NIGGERS.
The frat boys' freedom of speech was captured on camera phone. They were chanting, "They'll Never Be A NIGGER here at ΣΑΕ (Sigma Alpha Epsilon)".
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ (clap your hands)
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ (clap your hands)
They'll never be a NIGGER
They'll never be a NIGGER
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ
You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me
They'll never be a NIGGER in ΣΑΕ!
The national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon closed the Oklahoma Kappa chapter at the University of Oklahoma after a video surfaced showing members singing a racist, unsanctioned chant. The students were boisterously singing and taking the NIGGER to the woodshed.
They parodied the popular children's song, "If You're Happy and You Know It."
The Sooners put protest in silence.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon quickly suspended the charter of the involved chapter and suspended it's members on Sunday, March 8, 2015.
The University of Oklahoma president, David Boren, subsequently evicted the fraternity members, leaving until the following midnight, on Monday, March 9 for all members to vacate the fraternity's campus dwellings.
This is the conservative movement in full swing. That's why it's dubbed the racist right.
This is privileged White people telling America, that NIGGERS have no place in college or America.
The state of Oklahoma is solid red. There's no chance that a Democrat could win a seat in a deeply conservative, energy rich and cattle fed state. Besides Texas, the state of Oklahoma has a high uninsured rate.
Because the good folks in Oklahoma City are spooking their residents into thinking that Obamacare is an evil being sent from the depths of hell to destroy the very lives of White America.
That's probably why when Republicans can feel giddy is the recent polls and political forecasts.
For you see, Republicans could win back the Senate therefore having complete control of Congress.
And with that complete control of Congress, they will be more actively opposing President Barack Obama. Even threats of impeachment could happen once again.
Anyway here's the run down. I looked at my social networking profile and saw an article from Opposing Views. That told of a woman's concerns that her neighbor's freedom of speech masquerading as a Halloween display has gone too far.
Jamilla Phillips of Edmond says she was shocked to see the Obama tombstone in her neighbor’s yard as part of his Halloween display. The tombstone features President Barack Obama’s name with a question mark where his date of birth should be.
“I was absolutely offended,” said Phillips, who is new to the neighborhood, to KOCO News. “He is the president of the United States, and it actually is about respect. It’s a total respect thing because this person is still alive.”
Dwayne Dockens, who made the tombstone, says it has been featured in his yard for the last three years and he has never gotten any complaints about it. He claims he made it a few years ago when the issue of the president’s birth certificate was a hot topic.
“And we made all these ourselves, so just thought it was kind of humorous and, you know, went ahead and put him in there as well,” said Dockens.
Dockens says his intention wasn’t to offend anybody, but he still isn’t sure that he’s willing to take it down.
Phillips worries that the tombstone is sending a bad message to children.
It's Obama's fault for crazed man who beheaded an innocent woman. This nutjob Alton Nolen beheaded a woman. He was caught and is facing justice. According to the racist right, there's no such thing as a good Islamic mosque or Muslim. They're terrorist no matter what they do. Conservatives pissed over DHS official going to a mosque.
This must be the season for fear mongering and the October Surprise. The oh so scary MUSLIMS!
Radical Islam
ISIS
The Taliban
Osama bin Laden
Iran
Syria
Boko Haram
After all these extremists in the conservative media have worked themselves into a frenzy over things that are considered race baiting, religious intolerance and Islamophobia.
The only thing to fear is fear itself. The racist right is intolerant of Blacks, Latinos, LGBT, and Muslims. No matter how many incidents occur in America, if this involves a non-White and non-Christian suspect, the conservative agitators will jump on it and continue this nonstop political blame game. Insert Barack Obama and next thing you know, the junk food media will cover it.
The racist right is already slamming the president for not having federal officials attend the funeral of Moore, Oklahoma beheading victim, Colleen Hufford.
Now I guess the rumors are going around that a few days ago, the Department of Homeland Security sent one of its workers to an Oklahoma City mosque. The official was there to commence on the tornado outbreak which damaged the town and urge leaders to seek out extremism.
The Islamic Society of Oklahoma City has gotten death threats after the racist right made a fuss about it on their outlets.
David Myers, director of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke at the Greater Islamic Society of Oklahoma City. Myers delivered a message of gratitude from President Obama.
“Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice,” President Barack Obama said.
The racist right agitators have worked hard to stroke fear. After all, not all Muslims are extremists.
But since it's Obama, a criminal who did a vicious crime, and Oklahoma City mosque: cue the fear!
Oklahoma Muslims marked the end of the yearly pilgrimage to mecca with communal prayer and celebration called Eid Ul-Adha on Saturday.
Leaders of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City say it’s been a tough month for Muslims here in Oklahoma after being associated with the beheading at Vaughan foods in Moore.
Colleen Hufford didn't do anything but go to work.
Leaders of the faith here in the state say vicious messages are being left for Oklahoma Muslims, telling them to get out of Oklahoma and threatening to behead them all because the man behind the beheading claimed to be Muslim.
The sick man Alton Nolen is being charged with capital murder. That right there puts him into the death house.
So here's what the racist right is doing. The classic guilty by association theme.
Just because the suspect goes to a prayer service doesn't mean they've inspired him to be fired from his job. They didn't create his Facebook page. They didn't tell him to snap and go off killing Colleen Hufford and stab Traci Johnson. No one told him to do something like selling dope and assaulting a police officer.
It's was solely the fault of Nolen and not those in the Muslim community.
Now the racist right will now ensue the delusional to make death threats to those attending the Mosque or inspire a hate crime upon innocent men and children attending.
So I can gladly say that America's is a melting pot of cultures. Unfortunately hate is a part of the melting pot of cultures.
We can't change a White extremist's mind when it comes to Muslims, Blacks, Latinos and Barack Obama. They're two feet in the mountain of shit.
Colleen (right) with her husband KC, daughter Kelli and granddaughter Riley. Woman was a victim of heartless attack by a crazed Muslim extremist who was her former worker. The suspect claims he wanted to be like the Islamic State.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Colleen Hufford. The 54-year woman was stabbed and later decapitated by this crazed man. This crazed man is Muslim convert who is perennial inductee of the iron college.
The racist right is having a field day with this.
Two things that agitates the racist right: a Black man and a Muslim. What more could they ask for?
Guaranteed the mentions of Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, Muslims, and Barack Obama are going to be poured down the comment section. The word vomit is always plentiful for the living. Always got to be a blame game for the incidents.
Instead of blaming the criminal, we blame Obama, the junk food media, agitators (from the left and the right) and politics for this incident.
The conservative agitators of the junk food media are saying that this is their "I TOLD YOU SO MOMENT!"
Just about a few days ago, a Muslim convert extremist named Alton Nolen was fired from Vaughn Foods processing plant. He went on this extremist style killing spree. He killed fellow co-worker Hufford after he crashed his vehicle into the building.
He also went to stabbing Terri Johnson before the co-founder Mark Vaughn (a part time deputy) put a bullet in Nolan's stomach.
Nolen is recovering from his wounds. This opens the investigation to how a man snapped like that!
The Daily Mail chronicles the lives of both Hufford and Nolen.
FBI is looking into this criminal's background. Some claim that the finger pose is similar to Islamic State.
Hufford was a mother, grandmother and survivor of the devastating tornadoes of last year. Family created a Facebook page to help aid in getting her a proper funeral.
The mother of Nolen tells the junk food media that her son is a idiot. She knows her son took the wrong path ever since he was inducted into the Oklahoma iron college.
The FBI is looking into his background from his days of criminal activity.
When released from the hospital, Nolen will be charged with capital murder and he will likely get the gas house for this incident.
That annoying conservative agitator was going on and on about ISIS, radical Islam and dropping Obama's name in every freaking sentence.
I want you to understand that crime happens in America. And if you're a smart person, you would realize that the more these agitators crow about Muslims, the likely a White extremist will commit a hate crime towards one.
No one would imagine this could happen!
Americans must be vigilant when their friends, family or a complete stranger does things that may merit either law enforcement or health professional involvement.
It's considered a coin flip. Some do the right thing and others don't.
Lunatic decapitates coworker after he was given the pink slip. He also opens up a can of worms. He was a parolee who recently converted to an Islamic Sunni.
Conservatives are in a panic over an Oklahoma man's brutal killing of a woman. The fear is that the man is an ex-convict who became a Muslim. Of course, some will automatically go into crisis mode.
The moment I heard about this, I thought initially it was a stabbing. Alas, its worse than I've thought.
Alton Nolen is being treated for his wounds after his co-worker (an off duty peace officer) put a slug in him. But the damage was done.
The man put the knife on his fellow co-worker at a Vaughn Food and Meat Packing plant in Moore, Oklahoma. He was given the pink slip. He snapped and went on a rampage. He would stab Colleen Hufford. The suspect put the wounds in her. Nolen sliced the neck and pulled the head.
He would find co-worker Traci Johnson. He was aiming to kill her too. After all he put the wounds in her and was going for the neck. Mark Vaughn, the co-founder saw the threat and put the slug in his stomach. Vaughn is a part time deputy for Oklahoma County sheriff. The actions of this man stopped a crazed man from doing more harm to the staff.
The company released a statement sending condolences to the victims of this senseless tragedy.
Okay, the FBI is looking into the possibility of terrorism (this also includes the prospect of workplace violence). Oklahoma Republican Governor Mary Fallon and President Barack Obama were notified of the situation.
Nolen was a parolee who has a long rap sheet. I guess that he was given an opportunity to get out of the iron college by working at the food processing plan. He blew it. So he snapped. He went through the front door with his car, exited the vehicle and decided to do slicing.
I mean it's horrible that this asshole done this. It's likely he's be given the gas chamber due to the severity of this.
The suspect is a Black man. The man was a Muslim. Cue the outrage meter. A Black man who murdered a White person. A Muslim extremist beheads an American. Radical Islam is here in America.
Moore, Oklahoma is the largest suburb in the Oklahoma City metro area. The area has just survived some of the worse tornado outbreaks in American history. Over 100 people parished in the outbreak.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Colleen Hufford.
