A Tulsa Police Officer whose body camera began recording a fatal encounter between a north Tulsa man and three law enforcement officers did not break TPD policy by not recording the entire shooting, documents show.
Staff members who worked at a Muskogee County juvenile facility where a 16-year-old hanged himself in December were mentally abusive and didn’t give juveniles adequate supervision, an investigation by the Department of Human Services has found.
A Tulsa Police Officer is under Internal Affairs investigation and has been moved temporarily to administrative duty after his dashboard camera recording him pointing his gun at a female driver and berating her for several minutes before writing her a ticket for an improper lane change.
State corrections officials expressed several concerns about CoreCivic’s plans to close the facilities, including sending prisoners nearing release from one of the best performing reentry facilities to one of the worst performing facilities.
The family of James Coale needs 500 signatures from registered voters in Okfuskee County before an investigation of the shooting can be ordered.
“My interest is in what all transpired, what sort of practices were utilized much further upstream with this young man because we know for a fact this had been going on for awhile.” — Mike Brose, CEO of Mental Health Association Oklahoma.
Lisa Reyna is the second eyewitness to speak with The Frontier and whose account of what happened during the crash contradicts details in a report by a Tulsa County Sheriff’s deputy who had just made a U turn in the roadway when the crash occurred.
Other motorcyclists who were at the scene of the fatal crash say they were told by the deputy to leave, while the deputy’s report says he told them to stay.