TULSA, OKLA.—A white Oklahoma police officer charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year says the man’s race had nothing to do with her decision to fire her gun. Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview scheduled to air later Sunday that she used lethal force because she feared 40-year-old Terence Crutcher was reaching inside his vehicle for a gun. “I’m feeling that his intent is to do me harm and I keep thinking, ‘Don’t do this. Don’t make this happen,’” Shelby told correspondent Bill Whitaker in her first interview since the Sept. 16 shooting. Just that would tell any officer that that man’s going for a weapon,” she says.

Source: thestar April 02, 2017 19:22 UTC