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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jurors hearing the manslaughter case against a white Oklahoma police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year will be asked to decide whether she used appropriate force — a question that's been put to juries around the U.S. in other similar trials.

Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby is accused of overreacting when she shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher in September. Prosecutors say Crutcher wasn't armed or combative when Shelby approached him on a street after his SUV broke down and that he obeyed Shelby's commands to raise his hands. Shelby's attorneys...