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Cops Kill Man In Wal-Mart Carrying An Air Rifle That He Might Have Planned To Buy
Daily Caller ^ | August 7, 2014 | Chuck Ross

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.

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To: grundle

This is the same shopping area we discussed earlier this year was fighting to keep the RTA busses away. They lost the fight.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3052063/posts


41 posted on 08/10/2014 5:23:39 PM PDT by Buck-I-Guy
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To: grundle
For those into the British comedy Blackadder:

Blackadder: (Entering) Sir, that is Baldrick, spring cleaning.
Prince George: Rubbish! Look he's got a bomb!
Blackadder: That's not a bomb, it's a sponge.
Prince George: Oh yes, so it is. Well get it out of here at once, before it explodes!

42 posted on 08/10/2014 5:24:53 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: lightman

He was on his cellphone. Cellphone use shuts down the brain. You can see it everyday in motorists using cellphones.


43 posted on 08/10/2014 5:30:03 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: bgill

The law is, you take the victim as you find them. The cops are liable for her death as well, no matter what her medical condition might have been. These a$$hats are in serious trouble and should be imprisoned where the REAL fun begins.


44 posted on 08/10/2014 5:30:27 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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All contributions are for the current quarter expenses.



FReepathon day 40.

Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.

45 posted on 08/10/2014 5:31:04 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: grundle

I live near this WM. From all the accounts I’ve heard and read, the guy was walking around pointing it, waving it at children and other people, and threatening them. He was told to drop the “weapon” multiple times and didn’t. After the first shot he started charging at the cops.

Who knows for sure, but the media is sure pushing the innocent man with a toy gun. I think there is more to the story.


46 posted on 08/10/2014 5:31:57 PM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: Ann Archy

It was a Crosman MK-177. Most Walmarts keeps them locked up in the ammo aisle. They are not sold in the toy department. A person would have to be beyond stupid to take it out of the packaging and load it in the store or point it at somebody.


47 posted on 08/10/2014 5:33:19 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Just think if the cops hung out in a place like Cabelas...They could really rack up some scores...


48 posted on 08/10/2014 5:33:22 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: I-ambush
Great suggestion, in my opinion. Given the record of accuracy they wouldn't be able to put that first one on target. (Unless it was fido, of course.)
49 posted on 08/10/2014 5:34:07 PM PDT by ricmc2175
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To: grundle

PIGs gonna have to take sides one day.


50 posted on 08/10/2014 5:36:20 PM PDT by steveyp
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To: grundle

Looks to me that a “concerned customer” that called the cops has actually developed a new method of “swatting”.


51 posted on 08/10/2014 5:38:36 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (His Arrogance would love to replace John Kerry-Heinz but all the trained monkeys turned him down.)
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To: lightman
If he comprehended enough to say “it isn’t real” why didn’t he comprehend the command “put it down!”?

Confusion. At one moment the guy is minding his business, looking at a gun he may want to buy. The next moment he's got a cop pointing a gun at him. He knows the "gun" he's holding his harmless. He has no idea he's been reported as dangerous. While his mind is desperately trying to process what's going on, and he tries to explain to the cop, he gets shot.

If you want to look at a gun in a store, and it's in an open box, never point it anywhere but at the ceiling. And if you decide to buy it, PUT IT IN YOUR SHOPPING CART. Don't wander around holding it. In a shopping cart, everyone will recognize it's a purchase.

53 posted on 08/10/2014 5:59:58 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( is)
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To: JoeFromSidney

B I N G O !


54 posted on 08/10/2014 6:07:28 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: JoeFromSidney

Unfortunately that’s not the way it happened from all I’ve heard. He was walking around the store threatening multiple customers and pointing it at children. He was on the far side of the store from where the BB guns are located.


55 posted on 08/10/2014 6:12:55 PM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Why, that’d be like catching fish in a big aquarium.


56 posted on 08/10/2014 6:24:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: ricmc2175

Or give them each one round, make them carry it in their shirt pocket and ask permission before loading the pistol.


57 posted on 08/10/2014 6:25:57 PM PDT by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning)
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To: grundle

If Crawford unpackaged the Crosman in sporting goods then there should definitely be a recording of him doing so. Also, recordings of his route through the store considering how many cameras they have.


58 posted on 08/10/2014 6:37:09 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: woofie

I Open-Carry in the Petoskey, Michigan Walmart every time I go there. Nobody has ever said a word about it to me.
It’s a very safe town. I guess no-one cares too much about it.


59 posted on 08/10/2014 6:44:20 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: vmivol00

“He was walking around the store threatening multiple customers and pointing it at children. He was on the far side of the store from where the BB guns are located.”

Details, details, this is a COP-BASHING thread - now GET WITH THE PROGRAM. (lol)


60 posted on 08/10/2014 6:48:31 PM PDT by BobL
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