Tulsa teacher: 'Tragedy lives and breathes' among students
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A teacher at a Tulsa charter school attended by the daughter of an unarmed black man killed by a white officer says the tragedy "lives and breathes" among her classmates in a moving essay she posted on Facebook detailing her experience helping students cope.
Rebecca Lee is a teacher at KIPP Tulsa College Preparatory. She writes that she facilitated three small-group discussions about Terence Crutcher's death. She says one group included sixth-grade classmates of Crutcher's daughter.
Lee writes that she's sharing her experience to give people "a clearer understanding of the crisis we're facing and why we say black lives matter."
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Lee posted the essay Wednesday evening. It had been shared more than 135,000 times by Friday morning.
Tulsa officer Betty Shelby is charged with first-degree manslaughter in Crutcher's death.