
The guy shaking hands with Betty Shelby – the former Tulsa cop who got away with murder – is Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton. He hired Shelby as a reserve deputy in August of 2017 after she was acquitted of ruthlessly killing Terence Crutcher. I guess he was impressed with Shelby's ability to lose cool under pressure, and her expertise in ruthlessly gunning down unarmed inebriated black men that may frighten her.
Knowing what we know about Sheriff Walton's questionable decision-making when it comes to hiring staff, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that he recently followed the lead of Sheriff Steve Kelley and shared some authoritarian, misinformed, factless thoughts and views on State Question 788 on Facebook. He started things by posting this letter on Rogers County letterhead:
