This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vietanthu.

On a September evening in 2016, Terence Croucher's SUV stopped in the middle of a road in

Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A woman saw him step out of the car.

The doors of the car were open.

The engine was still running.

The woman called 911.

Officer Betty Shelby was on her way to an unrelated incident when the call came in.

Terence was 40, African American, born and raised in Tulsa.

He was a churchgoing man with four children.

Betty was 42, white, her mother.

She was born in a small town not far from Tulsa.

In an ideal world, these two Oklahoma natives, close an age, ought to have had more to bring

them together than to hold them apart.

But on this evening, there was no small talk or friendly chatter.

The police officer told Terence to take his hands out of his pockets.

According to her attorney, he first complied.

He then put his hands up in the air.

Moments later, he put his hands back in his pockets.

By this point, multiple police officers had gathered and drawn their guns and tasers.

Overhead, a police chopper filmed events as they unfolded.

From the video, it's hard to tell exactly what's happening on the ground, but an officer

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