Steve Harvey on Terence Crutcher Shooting: ‘This is Crazy, This Country Losing It’
Steve Harvey, Meek Mill, Trey Songz, D.L. Hughley and many others took to social media to express their outrage at the fatal police shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old black man.
Tulsa, Oklahoma police released video footage on Monday of Crutcher being shot and killed by a white officer after police responded to a stalled vehicle on Friday.
The video has since gone viral and ignited backlash over the continuing disproportionate rate of police brutality against black men.
“I just seen a terrorist survive a shootout with police after blowing some s— up and later on that day a black man shot down for no reason at all,” Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill posted on Instagram Tuesday.
Video Shows Unarmed Black Man Shot With Hands Up by Oklahoma Police
WHERE THEY GIVING OUT 30 YEARS SENTENCES FOR NON VIOLENT CRIMES TO MOSTLY BLACK OFFENDERS I DONT THINK I WILL EVER VOTE,THAT STUFF NEVER FELT LIKE IT WAS FOR ME OR MY PEOPLE FROM WHERE THEY GIVE POOR PEOPLE MILLION DOLLAR BAILS AND SAY INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!!! FROM WHERE THEY SAY FREEDOM OF SPEECH BUT WILL GIVE YOU A 100 YEARS ABOUT A PHONE CONVERSATION WHERE THE WORLD EQUAL DOSENT EXSIST!
Many others echoed his sentiments, wondering how Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man who is suspected of carrying out bombings in New York and New Jersey this past weekend, was able to survive a shootout with police but Crutcher was shot and killed with his hands up.
“A bomber, literally a terrorist, shoots it out with the cops and is safely detained yet this unarmed black man is shot down like so many others,” Trey Songz wrote.
Can you not see why Colin Kaepernick says fuck your national anthem?! A bomber, literally a terrorists, shoots it out with the cops and is safely detained yet this unarmed black man is shot down like so many others.
“All the people from Jerry Rice to Jason Whitlock to Ray Lewis to Rodney Harrison who were so upset about Colin Kaepernick not standing up, I wish all of them were just as upset about Terence Crutcher getting shot down,” Hughley said in a video.
Because as I recall, that’s how this whole s— started.
“Family Feud” host Steve Harvey wondered how four officers couldn’t simply tackle an unarmed man and had to resort to shooting him.
“How four people got to start shooting one unarmed man,” said Harvey in a video posted to his Twitter.
According to a Washington Post’ database that tracks police shootings, Crutcher is one of 162 black men to have been killed by law enforcement officers this year.
A terrorist can be taken away alive after a shootout while #TerenceCruthcher is shot dead with no physical action taken.
Do we need to carry a printed card that says Officer, I am a law-abiding citizen.