This report FIRED ME UP!!! Walmart Customer Killed By Cops for Playing With a BB-Gun (VIDEO of store footage included) Originally posted at InfoWars: infowars/walmart-shopper-killed-by-cops-after-picking-up-bb-gun/ It all went down on Tuesday night at the Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio, after a witness reported 22-year-old Fairfield resident John Crawford picking up a BB gun (sold at the store) featuring military style characteristics, which the witness described to police as a “rifle type weapon.” Two police officers responded to the call. According to the officers, Crawford failed to comply with orders to drop the weapon when police approached him. Seconds later he was dead. But a new surveillance video released just days after a Grand Jury found that the officers had acted appropriately and chose not to level any charges against them shows a slightly different set of events. In the split screen video below, which shows officers approaching Crawford, it appears that Crawford did drop his weapon and subsequently dove for cover. Crawford then gets up and runs around a corner, at which point he is shot at near point blank range. The video shows that Crawford immediately dropped his weapon and dove for cover when he spotted someone coming towards him. As another officer flanked him from the other side, Crawford may have panicked, jumped up and ran for cover down the other aisle. It just so happened that the other officer was coming towards him at the time. Perhaps that officer, who had his weapon drawn, was startled as Crawford came around the corner. The mother of Crawford’s child, Lee Cee Johnson, was on the phone with him as the incident happened. According to her, Crawford was playing video games in the store’s entertainment section, before he proceeded to the toy department. “We was just talking. He said he was at the video games playing videos and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were. And 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 stated. “And I could hear him just crying and screaming. I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.” The witness who phoned police, ex-marine Ronald Ritchie, reportedly told 9-1-1 he saw Crawford “walking around with a gun in the store,” and that he was “loading it right now,” and pointing it at customers and children. He “was just waving it at children and people. Items…. I couldn’t hear anything that he was saying. I’m thinking that he is either going to rob the place or he’s there to shoot somebody else,” Ritchie said. Innocent bystander Angela D. Williams, 37, of Fairborn, who tried to flee after hearing police gunfire ring out also died after allegedly suffering a heart attack. The county coroner said she was “apparently running from a dangerous situation inside the Walmart store when she collapsed. She was taken to Soin Medical Center where she died at 9:14 p.m.” In a sad twist, the mother of two was due to be wed on Saturday. Both of the officers involved in the shooting, Sean Williams and David Darkow, were put on paid administrative leave. Though the Grand Jury chose not to charge the officers, the Justice Department has promised to look into the matter. Did police act within the law when they shot and killed John Crawford? Or is this another case of overzealous cops making a choice to shoot first and ask questions later? Or, was this just a situation that went awry when both parties – Crawford and the police officers – panicked? https://youtube/watch?v=S9FtNOV6Qhk
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:15:06 +0000
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