A Tulsa police officer shot and killed an African American man who ignored repeated requests to put up his hands before reaching into an SUV that was stalled in the middle of a street, the police department said. “He refused to follow commands given by the officers,” MacKenzie said. The one who shot Crutcher will be placed on leave, which is routine in cases of police-involved shootings. Tulsa police officers do not currently wear body cameras, although they were selected to receive a nearly $600,000 cash-match grant for them in 2015. In April, a white reserve Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy was convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting last year of an unarmed black suspect who was on the ground being restrained by officers.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2016 19:30 UTC