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Nearly 10 years after former Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher, a court ruled his family’s civil lawsuit against Shelby could move forward. 

His sister Tiffany Crutcher, their attorneys and clergy members gathered Tuesday at Morning Star Baptist Church to celebrate the March 30 appellate court ruling. 

“This moment did not come easy, it came after a decade of unimaginable loss,” Crutcher said at the north Tulsa church. “There were days when justice felt far away and days when hope was tested in ways I never thought I could endure and yet we did not give up.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice,” she said, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. 

Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher in September 2016. She was one of the first officers to arrive at the scene after his car had stalled and was idling in the road near 36th Street North and North Lewis Avenue.

Relatives maintain he posed no threat to the officer and that she used unreasonable force when she shot him. Shelby claimed he repeatedly ignored her commands throughout the interaction.

He was unarmed.

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A hand-curated list of the best journalism from across the state:

• Oklahoma County funds jail, covering shortfall and avoiding state control (Oklahoma City Free Press)

• Homelessness among families with children is rising and it’s expected to get worse (Oklahoma Watch)

• NE OKC Homeland store closure avoided with Restore OKC partnership (The Oklahoman)*

• FBI Director Kash Patel travels to Oklahoma to discuss prosecuting crimes in Indian Country (KOCO)

• 'Uphill in a snowstorm': How one rural Oklahoma county is fighting the opioid epidemic (KOSU)

• Tulsa’s tourism leaders put their support behind hotel tax hike on August ballot (Tulsa Flyer)

• Oklahoma lawmaker proposes morel mushroom as state symbol (KXII)

• Lawmakers aim to circumvent Oklahoma voters by putting state questions on low turnout election (Oklahoma Voice)

• Ponca City's Temple Emmanuel closes, leaving only 2 synagogues in Oklahoma (KOCO)

• Frederick schools seek $6.1 million bond for facility upgrades (KSWO)

• Luther has more going on than data centers (The Luther Register)

• Federal judge rules Trump's public media order violated First Amendment. Here's what that means for KOSU (KOSU)

• These 4 women are shaping the future of east Tulsa. Here’s how. (Tulsa Flyer)

• Supreme Court declines appeal in Joe Exotic murder for hire case (News On 6)

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