Black man buys toy gun in wal-mart, gets shot and killed by cops in wal-mart
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why they not releasing the video? 
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Heartbreaking Illustrations Document The Last Words Of Young, Unarmed Black Men:
John Crawford, 22, was on the phone with his mother when he was shot by police in an Ohio Walmart. Police said he didn't follow commands to put down a pellet rifle he'd picked up in the store.
Originally stopped for walking in the street, Michael Brown was shot a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, two days before he was set to begin classes at Vatterott College.
Trayvon Martin, a high school student, was killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman while walking to his father's house.
Groom-to-be Sean Bell, 23,was leaving his bachelor partywhen police fired 50 bullets at him. His friend, Joseph Guzman, told him that he loved him as they attempted to escape the onslaught.
Groom-to-be Sean Bell, 23,was leaving his bachelor partywhen police fired 50 bullets at him. His friend, Joseph Guzman, told him that he loved him as they attempted to escape the onslaught.
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Oscar Grant, 22, was shot and killed by a police officer on New Year's Day, 2009. The officer testified that he meant to reach for his Taser but accidentally pulled out his gun.
Former college football player Jonathan Ferrell was shot 10 times by a police officerwhile seeking help following a car crash a month before his 25th birthday. He didn't have time to explain.
California teenager Kendrec McDade was fatally shot by police who answered a 911 call about an armed robbery. The caller said that McDade was armed in the hopes of receiving a quicker response.
Aspiring college student Amadou Diallo was mistaken for someone else by four plainclothes officers. The last thing he told his mother was that he had saved $9,000 for college expenses.
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Video shows police shot Ohio man ‘on sight’ as he leaned on toy gun in Walmart, attorney says
John Crawford
by Valerie Lewis
UPDATE: Ohio’s attorney general fights release of video from Walmart shooting: ‘Trust the system’
Surveillance video shows an Ohio man talking on a cell phone, leaning on a toy gun, and facing away from officers moments before police shot and killed him in a Walmart store, according to an attorney for the man’s family.
John Crawford III died Aug. 5 after police were called to Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, by another shopper who reported a man carrying what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle.
The 22-year-old Crawford was instead carrying an unpackaged MK-177 (.177 caliber) BB/pellet rifle he picked up in the store’s toy department.
Police claim Crawford ignored their commands to drop the weapon, and the former Marine who called in the report and witnessed the shooting said Crawford “looked like he was going to go violently.”
But attorney Michael Wright said surveillance video from the incident, which Ohio’s attorney general allowed him to watch with Crawford’s family, contradicted those accounts.
“John was doing nothing wrong in Walmart, nothing more, nothing less than shopping,” Wright said.
The attorney said surveillance video showed Crawford facing away from officers, talking on the phone, and leaning on the pellet gun like a cane when he was “shot on sight” in a “militaristic” response by police.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Tuesday handed the case over to a special prosecutor to present to a grand jury Sept. 22.
Mark Piepmeier, an assistant Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor, has handled more than 100 officer-involved shooting cases in his career.
He oversaw the grand jury investigation of Stephen Roach, who was indicted but later acquitted of a negligent homicide charge in the fatal 2001 shooting of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas that sparked race riots in Cincinnati.
DeWine said Tuesday he was glad he had allowed Crawford’s family to view the surveillance video, but he did not plan to publicly release the video to avoid tainting the jury pool.
“I thought the family had the right to view it,” DeWine said. “The mom did not want to view it; I understand it. The dad did view it, (but) to put the video out on TV is not the right thing to do.”
Wright said the family objected to the piecemeal release of evidence, such as dispatch audio and video on the day of the shooting, was biased toward the police.
“Everything released is one-sided,” Wright said. “There is nothing favorable to John Crawford. You can’t show different pieces, show it all, don’t trickle pieces to gain favor of the public.”
He said the video suggests Crawford probably did not see or hear officers as they arrived.
Crawford was speaking by cell phone to his girlfriend, who was with his parents, when he was shot.
“He said he was at the video games playing videos, and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were,” said LeeCee Johnson, the mother of his two children. “The next thing I know, he said, ‘It’s not real,’ and the police start shooting, and they said ‘Get on the ground,’ but he was already on the ground because they had shot him.”
Johnson put the phone on speaker mode, and she and Crawford’s parents heard him die.
“I could hear him just crying and screaming,” Johnson said. “I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.”
A 37-year-old woman at the store suffered an unspecified medical emergency after the shooting and died a short time later.
Sgt. David Darkow, one of the officers involved in the shooting, has already been allowed to resume his duties.
The other officer, Sean Williams, remains on administrative leave.
Wright called on DeWine to turn over the case to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/...e-leaned-on-toy-gun-in-walmart-attorney-says/
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you can bet your sweet ass if it was a vid of him running around with the gun screaming, "your pawgs are now mine!!" it would have been posted on theyoutube and thetwitter account of the policeBecause it doesn't benefit the police
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In honor of John Crawford III who passed August 2014
John Crawford
by Valerie Lewis
In an Ohio Walmart on August 5th 2014, John Crawford was fatally shot while playing with a BB gun that was sold in the store. He was on the phone, was confused … exclaimed to police “It’s not real!”
just to give you guys some info on Ohio, the govenor is a former Fox News anchor 
here he is filling in for OReilly
here he is filling in for OReilly
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Ohio’s attorney general fights release of video from Walmart shooting: ‘Trust the system’
By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 11:04 EDT
Ohio’s attorney general is fighting the release of surveillance video recorded during the fatal police shooting of a 21-year-old black man last month at a Walmart store.
Beavercreek police officers said they shot John Crawford III on Aug. 5 after he waved what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle at other customers and refused to drop the weapon – which turned out to be an unpackaged BB/pellet rifle sold in store’s toy department.
An attorney for Crawford’s family said surveillance video proved police claims were “absolutely incorrect,” arguing the surveillance video showed the victim talking on a cell phone as he leaned on the toy rifle like a cane when officers “shot him on sight.”
Attorney General Mike DeWine allowed Crawford’s father and attorney Michael Wright to view about 5 minutes from the video after an Aug. 18 protest outside his Columbus office, but he has so far refused to release it publicly.
“Trust the system,” DeWine said. “There will be ample time later for people to criticize what is done, and I’m fully aware of that, but let the judicial process work.”
Multiple media outlets have requested the video or an excerpt, arguing the evidence is a public record and any limitations on its release were voided when it was viewed by Crawford’s father and the attorney.
Ohio law requires public officials to respond to records request within a reasonable time, but the attorney general’s office has not yet set a deadline to respond.
DeWine has defended his decision not to release the video or other evidence requested by Crawford’s family and the media, saying he does not want to taint the grand jury pool.
“I think that it is playing with dynamite, frankly, to release that tape at this point,” DeWine said. “And I think the dynamite simply is that it blows up and you can’t get a fair trial. That’s what we worry about.”
He appointed a special prosecutor, Hamilton County assistant prosecutor Mark Piepmeier, to present the case Sept. 22 to a grand jury, although Crawford’s family has asked for the case to be turned over to the Department of Justice.
The liberal Plunderbund blog questioned the independence of the special prosecutor’s investigation, noting that DeWine’s daughter, Alice DeWine, advises Beavercreek police as part of her job as an assistant prosecutor in the Greene County prosecutor’s office.
Authorities in Greene County turned over the case to the attorney general to avoid potential conflicts of interest.
Piepmeier has contributed to the campaign of DeWine as recently as July 31, the blog reported, and the special prosecutor had previously donated to the campaign of the attorney general’s son Pat, a judge in Ohio’s 1st District Court of Appeals.
DeWine’s office has so far handled all media inquiries in relation to the case, and he planned to respond to a southwestern Ohio state representative who asked him to release evidence from the shooting.
Investigators are examining more than 200 photos from the shooting scene and have interviewed more than 75 witnesses, DeWine said, and they also had 911 call recordings and video footage from more than 200 cameras inside the suburban Dayton store.
The Bureau of Criminal Investigations re-enacted the shooting early Wednesday at the store, which was closed overnight.
Link:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/...video-from-walmart-shooting-trust-the-system/
