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Al Sharpton visited just 11 days after Officer Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, 2016. (KTUL)

The trial involving Officer Betty Shelby beginning is prompting Reverend Al Sharpton to return to Tulsa. He visited just 11 days after Officer Shelby shot and killed Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, 2016.

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The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is where Reverend Sharpton will hold a city-wide prayer and rally for justice on Wednesday. People at his last rally said to expect much of the same; a call for peace and unity.

Hundreds of people joined Sharpton for a nearly mile-long walk for justice in September.

For me, it was surprising, says Richard Baxter, founder of RacismStinks. I thought he was like a real agitator and I thought he was going to stir up a lot of feelings that were not going to end up in a positive way.

Reverend Sharpton, who has been in contact with the Crutcher family since the shooting, almost immediately scheduled a visit.

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It helped cover the wound, Baxter says of Septembers rally. It didnt help heal the wound. It was a little dab of ointment, but whats really going to heal the wound happens in the courtroom.

The courtroom is now the arena.

None of us are psychic, he says. We dont know whats going to happen.

The activist and public defender expect the coming weeks to be interesting and tense.

Were at a turning point, he says. We could go one way, which is the wrong way, or we could go another way which is the right way for unity.

And he, like Sharpton so many months ago, is calling for peace regardless of the verdict.

Sharpton is expected to be at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Wednesday night from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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