Debate swirls around Terence Crutcher’s actions prior to fatal police shooting in Tulsa

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Benjamin Crump — a civil rights lawyer who has represented many families of those killed in high-profile police shootings — said Terence Crutcher never reached his hands into the driver’s side window of his stalled sport-utility vehicle before he was shot by police.

Crutcher couldn’t have reached into the vehicle, Crump said, because enhanced photos of the vehicle taken from police video show that the window was rolled up.

If confirmed by police, the admission would eliminate one of the chief justifications for police using deadly force against Crutcher.