Betty Shelby

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October 26, 2021
BET's hit series Games People Play is back, and theGrio sat down with some of the show's cast to break…
May 29, 2021
Mistrust of the police still lingers even a hundred years after the Tulsa Race Riots which police were involved in.
April 26, 2021
Oklahoma joins dozens of Republican-led efforts to punish anti-police brutality protesters amid calls for police reform on the federal level.
November 4, 2019
Attorney Benjamin Crump talks about his new book, "Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People" and offers an action plan…
October 11, 2019
After loosing her brother Terence in a fatal police shooting, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher shines a light on police misconduct and…
Terrence Crutcher and Betty Shelby thegrio.com
November 12, 2018
Betty Shelby, the former cop who shot and killed an unarmed Black man in 2016 has been un-invited from a…
Terrence Crutcher and Betty Shelby thegrio.com
November 11, 2018
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sent a letter Friday to the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association, The AP writes.
Betty Shelby thegrio.com
August 30, 2018
Former Tulsa PD Officer Betty Shelby was never convicted of killing Terence Crutcher, but is now teaching a class on surving…
October 27, 2017
Are we witnessing the new normal, a new phase in the erasure of Black lives? 
July 16, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A white Oklahoma police officer recently acquitted of fatally shooting an unarmed black man submitted her
May 21, 2017
When Betty Jo Shelby of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was acquitted of first-degree manslaughter on Wednesday in the death of Terence Crutcher,
May 19, 2017
Tulsa community leaders say the acquittal of a white Oklahoma police officer who killed unarmed Terence Crutcher ripped open a…
May 18, 2017
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday acquitted a white Oklahoma police officer who says she fired out of
April 3, 2017
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white Oklahoma police officer charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed black man last…
February 8, 2017
A white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man last year will go to trial May 8.
October 12, 2016
Terence Crutcher, 40, suffered a "penetrating gunshot wound of chest" and noted both of Crutcher's lungs were pierced and that…
September 30, 2016
Tulsa officer Betty Shelby is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday for the fatal shooting two weeks ago of 40-year-old…
September 29, 2016
The attorney for Tulsa Officer Betty Shelby said she had a temporary loss of hearing during the confrontation with Terence…
September 25, 2016
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners packed a church for a funeral honoring an unarmed black man who was…
September 23, 2016
Betty Shelby, the Tulsa officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, has been released on $500,000 bond.