John Crawford Case: It’s Open Carry for Whites and Open Season on Blacks

[decocker 7,198]

Once again we have people looking at pictures and describing him based on that - How can you complain about people judging others as ganbangers based on a pic when you are going to judge him innocent because he is holding a baby?? Speaking of which the pictures of him holding a baby in other articles describe him as a devoted family man with two children.. Another article from the mother of the two children crying saying how much they loved each other and that she just found out she was pregnant with his third child but had not told him yet.. And then in the shooting he is with another woman described as a long time girlfriend.

If you are going to proclaim him a victim because he poses with a baby then you can't ###### when other people start looking into his life - you have opened the door.

..and a life lesson: If you are holding a gun and a cop points a gun at you and tells you to put it down, PUT IT DOWN. Does anyone with an IQ over 2 believe that someone would (or should) should just take the word of "its not a real gun!" - Don't be stupid, put that ####### down!

i saw that picture after i posted this article. it was the first picture that came up in the search. i haven't said anything about john crawfords character PERIOD gangbanger or father of the year. i don't know anything about him.

i would be a little bit shocked if i was holding a peice of merchandise in the store i'm shopping in and the cops approached me like i was an active shooter. but then again, i'm white. cops don't approach me like a criminal from the get go.

[Teddy B 17,252]

we'll see what's on the security camera footage. brandishing is heavy too. what if, and this is possible, he was carrying the gun, period.

one person had that account, the person who called 911.

and no, stalking is following - targeting and following. how effective is an 'incoherent' stalker?

Was there any other eye witness account that said differently?

Did you walk around Walmart with the gun you had just purchased while pointing it at people?

[Teddy B 17,252]

i saw that picture after i posted this article. it was the first picture that came up in the search. i haven't said anything about john crawfords character PERIOD gangbanger or father of the year. i don't know anything about him.

i would be a little bit shocked if i was holding a peice of merchandise in the store i'm shopping in and the cops approached me like i was an active shooter. but then again, i'm white. cops don't approach me like a criminal from the get go.

If you were carrying a toy gun you had just purchased, found yourself surrounded by cops and the police told you to drop the gun, would you? Or would you turn and point it at them?

[decocker 7,198]

Was there any other eye witness account that said differently?

Did you walk around Walmart with the gun you had just purchased while pointing it at people?

one person felt threatened enough to call 911. one. in a walmart where a person is waving a weapon around and pointing it menacingly at women and children. and if that doesn't signify something's amiss - in an open carry state no less - then whatever.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/08/john_crawford_shooting_open_carry_for_whites_open_season_on_blacks.html

Wow. I am pro gun, but don't like open carry. I think it invites these kind of issues, and is a bad tactical decision

[decocker 7,198]

If you were carrying a toy gun you had just purchased, found yourself surrounded by cops and the police told you to drop the gun, would you? Or would you turn and point it at them?

how do you know that's what happened?

Wow. I am pro gun, but don't like open carry. I think it invites these kind of issues, and is a bad tactical decision

i agree.

[SMOKE 1,426]

one person felt threatened enough to call 911. one. in a walmart where a person is waving a weapon around and pointing it menacingly at women and children. and if that doesn't signify something's amiss - in an open carry state no less - then whatever.

don't worry. he won't do it again.

[decocker 7,198]

don't worry. he won't do it again.

you're hilarious. bravo.

[Teddy B 17,252]

how do you know that's what happened?

i agree.

That's what was stated in the written story and the video in the link you posted.

[SMOKE 1,426]

you're hilarious. bravo.

TY. *BOW*

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.whio.com/videos/news/man-who-called-911-in-walmart-shooting-talks-to/vCmptw/

More on the story with interview

NewsCenter 7's Jessica Heffner and Dayton Daily News Reporter Kelli Wynn talked to Ronald Ritchie who called 911 and stayed on the phone through the ordeal that unfolded at the Beavercreek Walmart store. - See more at: http://www.whio.com/videos/news/man-who-called-911-in-walmart-shooting-talks-to/vCmptw/#sthash.MTdCxSpZ.dpuf

NewsCenter 7's Jessica Heffner and Dayton Daily News Reporter Kelli Wynn talked to Ronald Ritchie who called 911 and stayed on the phone through the ordeal that unfolded at the Beavercreek Walmart store. - See more at: http://www.whio.com/videos/news/man-who-called-911-in-walmart-shooting-talks-to/vCmptw/#sthash.MTdCxSpZ.dpuf

Of course the root's story failed to mention he was aiming it at people and that the police ordered him to drop it and he pointed it at them. Sounds like it was sad, but justified.

[SMOKE 1,426]

Of course the root's story failed to mention he was aiming it at people and that the police ordered him to drop it and he pointed it at them. Sounds like it was sad, but justified.

no way. the root withheld key facts of the story? never

[decocker 7,198]

That's what was stated in the written story and the video in the link you posted.

right, and also in the huff post article:

Beavercreek police said Crawford, 21, was shot after he waved an air rifle at customers and refused officers' orders to drop it. Attorney Michael Wright, who is representing Crawford's family, said this week that surveillance video of the shooting shows it was unjustified.

[Teddy B 17,252]

right, and also in the huff post article:

I don't know of any lawyer with the potential for a big pay day to say otherwise. Is there a link to the surveillance video so we can see for ourselves?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

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