You threaten your girlfriend by saying you’ve got a bullet with her name on it and then elbow a cop in the head and take off running, you might be in for a really bad day.
If your gun then falls out of your pants and you pick it up, sweeping the cop with the muzzle, you might just end up dead in a ditch, even if you’re running away.
That’s what happened to Terence Walker in Muskogee, OK in recent days.
His momma says he wasn’t a bad person though.
No, he was a “protector” – just about to turn his life around and play minor league football.
That’s why he picked up a gun on the street and threatened to shoot his girlfriend dead.
Walker says her son is being portrayed as a violent person. She says he’s not violent, he’s a protector, and it’s out of his character to be a threat. She says Terence had been living in Muskogee for the past year, but was about to move back home. She had high hopes a bright future was waiting for him in Austin, TX.
“I was just looking forward to him coming back home because there was a coach that was going to work with him to get him to sign up for minor league football.”
Of course, the local National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored Persons has chimed in as well.
Instead of calling for young men in the black community to renounce criminal violence, the NAALCP chapter is criticizing police for damaging the relationship between the police and the community by shooting this would-be killer before he could kill innocents.
(KTUL) – Tulsa’s NCAAP is speaking out after the Muskogee officer-involved fatal shooting. The president, Pleas Thompson says it is proof there is a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ culture.
Thompson sat down with Channel 8 to view the raw video that Muskogee police released. He feels the officer could have avoided shooting, since Terrance Walker was seen running away.
Thompson says the shooting only damages the relationship between the community and the police department.
Let’s cut to the chase: the deceased, a local thug with a arrest record and an illegally-possessed gun on his person, brought about a police response after toting his gat to a church where his girlfriend was attending a wedding service. Terence, aged 21, had bought the gun on the street and told friends that he had a bullet with his girlfriend’s name on it.
Nice boyfriend, huh?
Here’s the video from the body camera. Note how quickly things went sideways for all involved. CAUTION: Graphic.
While tragic that someone died, far better it was the bad actor than an innocent victim.
The police released the video along with the following as part of a Power Point presentation about the incident:
1. Suspect had made threats to kill a wedding party member and came to the location with a loaded handgun.2. Witnesses at the scene told police the suspect had conveyed information to the victim that he had a bullet with her name on it.3. The suspect had attempted to hand the gun to another person at the scene who refused to take it.4. There were witnesses at the scene who told us that the suspect had called or left a voicemail threatening to harm the victim. This is currently under review by O.S.B.I.5. The suspect failed to comply with basic commands by the officer to place his hands behind his back and used an elbow to strike the officer. The shadow thrown by the suspect in the footage appears to show the suspect with a raised fist towards the officer.6. The area in question is surrounded by homes, a church with several people attending a wedding, and the suspect was running in the direction of an occupied vehicle that was travelling toward the suspect and officer.7. The officer reacted to the suspect stopping to pick up an item that we believe the body camera shows was a gun. At this point the suspect posed an immediate threat to the officer and witnesses surrounding the scene. It is our belief that the video clearly shows the suspect pointing the gun at the officer
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