Posted on 08/10/2014 4:09:15 PM PDT by grundle
A man who was carrying an air rifle in an Ohio Wal-Mart told the police officers that fatally shot him that the gun was “not real,” according to a family member.
John Crawford was shot by police Tuesday evening at a Beavercreek store. The Ohio attorney general’s office announced Thursday that he was merely carrying a brand of air rifle that Wal-Mart sells.
Another shopper, 37-year-old Angela Williams, collapsed and died as she scrambled to get away after police fired at Crawford.
The shooting occurred after police responded to 911 calls about a man carrying a rifle. In one of those calls, which was released by police, a Wal-Mart shopper told emergency dispatchers that it looked like the man — later identified as Crawford — was trying to load the rifle and that he had pointed it at two children, WHIO reported.
The 911 caller’s wife said that Crawford was on the phone and that he was messing with the gun. She said that after police ordered Crawford to put down the unidentified weapon, “I heard two shots after I saw him turn. He still had the weapon in his hand.”
But Crawford’s family says that there is no way he intended to harm anyone that night.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Does WalMart have security camera footage of this incident?
This whole incident never had to happen. It really does seem the default mode today is ‘Shoot first, then shoot again, if they are still alive, ask any questions at that point”. The busybody who made that call to the police should feel lower than whale sht by now. What Mr. or Ms Busybody should have done is contact the manager or even a nearby cashier. They might have recognized their own merchandise.
Either way this should not have happened.
What is up with these cops these days, is it now shoot first, ask questions later??
Or give them each one round, make them carry it in their shirt pocket and ask permission before loading the pistol.
He was black. Ruh roh.
symptomatic of a murderous rich criminal society where cops view and treat everyone as a criminal. The cops are now so afraid for their own lives that they just kill citizens whom they must instantly judge by what they see. This can only get worse and I can’t help but think the astronomical level of corruption throughout DC only propagates more crime on our streets.
Read the link and what I posted. The Ritches “saw a man walking the aisles carrying what they thought was a real gun, pointing it toward the sky. The couple called 911.
The couple said they followed Crawford at a safe distance. “Anytime I saw people walking his way, I would get their attention,””
OMG!!!!! Was it HIS gun or was it to be PUrchased??????
And what was the man’s demeanor as he walked through the store with the air gun?
They mist likely have captured some of it. I doubt they have 100% coverage of the entire sales floor all the time.
“No way, kid - you’ll shoot your eye out!”
i believe this is now a strategy the left is using against gun owners.
cops more than happy to oblige in most cases.
There’s also the Barney Fife solution
JBT’s now is stock at your local Wallyworld...
May have been a toy, but cops were called by a hysterical woman that a guy was pointing an assault rifle at children inside the store. She probably didn’t mention they were all in the toy section.
Holy Cow !!!!!
I bought a Crosman air rifle at Walmart yesterday.
I guess I was taking my life in my hands.
It is very strange though.
Walmart does not have any air rifles out where you can touch them. They are in sealed cardboard boxes and need to be cut open.
The model they said he had is sold in a plastic blister pack that is really hard to open, even with scissors or a knife.
Something doesn’t make sense.
I saw my former neighbor on the news the other night escorting some Hamas cheerleaders out of the Ann Arbor city council meeting.
He then explained that they were free to chant all they want out on the sidewalk but they would not be allowed to disrupt the council meeting. The city council refused to even vote on a boycott of Israel so the protesters were throwing a tantrum.
Crazy coincidence, but in my local WM, the gun counter actually is right next to the toy dept.
Unless it's illegal aliens, in which case it's Don't shoot! They're only children… or tweens&hallip; or early-middle-aged people!
Apparently you can't shoot them because it's morally indefensible to assert your country's (or state's) sovereignty, or the obligation to protect the populous from invaders. (and it's apparently verbotten to bring up the fact that something like 40% of all federal felonies investigated are in the counties abutting the southern border.)
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