Innocent bystander also dies following incident
A Walmart shopper was shot and killed by police earlier this week after being spotted wielding one of the store’s products.
An innocent bystander who tried to flee after hearing police gunfire ring out also died after allegedly suffering a heart attack.
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.”
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11 comments:
police trigger happy. didn't have to act this way.
Beavercreek police Chief Dennis Evers said "The quick response of officers was instrumental in containing this situation and minimizing the risk to customers.” So killing two innocent people and terrorizing countless others (Wal Mart is always packed) is considered "containing the situation and minimizing the risk to others"? I find it unbelievable and appalling that a (supposedly) "good guy" can get away with even uttering such nonsense. I guess it's "cover thy brother's ass" no matter how absurd you have to get but then they publish the names of the murderers. Maybe the reining in will begin here.
Many guys from the hood in the bury steal BB pistols at walmart.
They use them as real weapons and you can't tell the difference.
I would shoot to kill anyone trying this venture.
Remember that police carry guns for their protection , not to protect you.
I'm sick of the rhetoric that I hear coming out of law enforcement. And, I'm sick of the GD cops shooting people like they were animals. I'm asking, just how in the hell did this kid get a military style weapon past many, many people and get that far into the store without someone alerting long, long before this POS marine? (I'd rather have a sister in a whorehouse then a brother in the Marines). This cop DID NOT use common sense. He had to have known that WalMart doesn't sell AR15 or AK47s.., other then toys. And, being in that part of the store/toy dept.., for crying out loud where are these cops minds?
I'm just flat out sick of cops, their attitudes, their actions and every other thing about them. They ARE NOT your friend and by all accounts ARE your enemy.
I recently had an interaction at the police department with an officer who stared the interaction with the statement, "I hate all people" and went on with plenty more.
With that attitude, folks, there is plenty reason to be in fear for your life when pulled over by an officer. It's best you keep the window at a slot, pass the cards through, but keep it in gear for a quick getaway if it turns bad.
These people have an axe to grind.
ANOTHER kid killed by the police. If the video exonerates them, then why suppress it?
WHO showed up? Barney Fife and Forest Gump?
And what MARINE can't tell the difference between an AR-15 and an f'ing BB GUN?!! They aren't even close to the same SIZE or configuration.
Do the police EVER consider anything other than shooting FIRST? I have a feeling that somehow, someway, that video will be accidently misplaced, destroyed, or lost.
I keep telling you -- as long as the police get to kill at will (they are always so damn AFRAID of EVERYTHING its sickening) and are protected by pansy ass State's Attorney's and ace licking judges, they will continue to kill. At every opportunity. They even attend courses to help them justify shooting citizens. Stop killing us and THINK first. God almighty, start acting like MEN.
I just read that a man was found guilty of murder for shooting a drunk kid banging on his door and windows in the middle of the night. He said he was "afraid". Murder, they say. Even if he was "afraid", he had no right to shoot. Too bad he didn't have a badge, huh??
I've seen women walking to their car in a dark parking lot with less fear than these short little oompah-loompah's carry with them all the time --- and they wear bullet proof vests!
Make police RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE when they kill. You'd see a whole helluva lot less murders by the Gestapo. Guaranteed.
Every day, the Gestapo create more and more enemies and hatred with their quick-draw, shoot first mentality.
They should be fired and prosecuted for their inability to distinguish BB guns from rifles, which resulted in TWO deaths.
Show the tape, Heinrich. Or is there something you don't want us ("we, the people") to see?
Good shoot. moving on to a real story. Not the police's fault a guy had a heart attack.
8:57 is one dumb cop. You should NOT be allowed to carry a gun.
If YOU or I (you know, regular people), do something that makes someone run away and they have a heart attack and die, the State's Attorney will MOST CERTAINLY charge us with contributing to their death. The "but for this action" legal reasoning. A WHOLE LOT of citizens are in prison under that very reasoning.
You'd expect a cop to know that.
My second question for the anonymous storm trooper at 8:57 is "have you EVER seen a cop kill ANYONE where you thought it might be, possibly could be, maybe maybe maybe, be stone cold murder by someone who will never have to answer for it or say anything other than "I was afraid!!!" ??????????????
I didn't think so.
8:57PM demonstrates a typical cop mentality. I can tell by the way s/he didn't get all of the facts before acting.
7:22 PM
It was a toy gun, that Walmart sells and he picked it up at the store.
Such hatred towards Marines suggests to me that you failed to qualify to sign up. Or maybe you had your ass handed to you by a marine?
Or maybe you were in the punk ass Navy and still bad mouthing your betters.
Just another Obama supporter
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