Oklahoma LEO Betty Jo Shelby found not guilty

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Oklahoma LEO Betty Jo Shelby found not guilty

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Betty Jo Shelby was found not guilty in the shooting of Terence Crutcher last year.

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And she got a new job..

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Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton told the Tulsa World that Betty Shelby will work for his office. He did not say what her duties will be.
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Prosecutors told jurors that Shelby overreacted. They noted Crutcher had his hands in their air and wasn't combative — part of which was confirmed by police video taken from a dashboard camera and helicopter that showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby, hands held above his head.
Sure sounds to me like she didn't overreact or do anything wrong.
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For those interested, Force Science ran an excellent series of in-depth AARs on this incident:

http://www.forcescience.org/fsnews/342.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Issue 343 is not out yet in their archives, but it finishes the series. I highly recommend the read, there's a lot of background and pertinent - crucial - details that the popular media never sought to honestly represent.
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Shelby's attorneys argued that in the two minutes before cameras began recording the encounter, Shelby repeatedly ordered Crutcher to stop walking away from her and get on the ground.

Shelby also said she feared Crutcher was under the influence of PCP, a powerful hallucinogenic known as Angel Dust that makes users erratic, unpredictable and combative.

An autopsy showed PCP was in Crutcher's system, and police said they found a vial of it in his SUV.
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