Murder by swatting.
Posted on 09/25/2014 1:06:11 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy
When Ronald Ritchie called 911 from the aisles of a Walmart in western Ohio last month to report that a black man was “walking around with a gun in the store”, he said that shoppers were coming under direct threat.
“He’s, like, pointing it at people,” Ritchie told the dispatcher. Later that evening, after John Crawford III had been shot dead by one of the police officers who hurried to the scene in Beavercreek, Ritchie repeated to reporters: “He was pointing at people. Children walking by.”
One month later, Ritchie puts it differently. “At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody,” the 24-year-old said, in an interview with the Guardian. He maintained that Crawford was “waving it around”, which attorneys for Crawford’s family deny.
Ritchie told several reporters after the 5 August shooting that he was an “ex-marine”. When confronted with his seven-week service record, however, he confirmed that he had been quickly thrown out of the US marine corps in 2008 after being declared a “fraudulent enlistment”, over what he maintains was simply a mixup over his paperwork.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
He’s a documented liar.
He’s a documented liar.
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Most people are.
Murder by swatting.
I’ve watched the video a few times now, and his behavior doesn’t come across as alarming to me at all.
The woman and two children who stopped in the same aisle don’t seem alarmed, either. (According to what I’ve read, she’s supposedly the same woman who collapsed and died of a heart attack when police shot Crawford.)
I’ve come across people carrying real guns through Walmart, and I wasn’t alarmed.
There are youtube videos of people purchasing firearms at Walmart. For example, if you go to this link, at around 1:20, the “customer” (really a Frenchman who obviously isn’t a serious customer) positions it to check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibtt6wTIaHk
Meanwhile, Crawford was just carrying an air rifle. It’s a shame - really sad for two victims and their families.
No, it wasn’t the same woman. There are multiple witnesses who have said that he was in fact waving it around and walking through the store with it on his shoulder.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/new-details-in-deaths-of-2-at-walmart/nhWF3/
Williams was the officer behind the only other fatal police shooting in Beavercreek...
Two fatal shootings in Beavercreek's history, and this guy did both?
FTR: I know nothing about those two sources. So, maybe you can find a source that says the woman in the video isn't the victim.
The sources I have seen read as though the woman who died was at the store alone.
The toxicology reports show he had smoked marijuana with two hours of the incident.
Other sources mention that she was with two of her children. Whatever the case, she collapsed in front of one or both of them. Tragic. :-(
And?
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