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BREAKING: Video of Ohio Walmart Shopper Shooting Released

By Dan Zimmerman on September 25, 2014
FULL VIDEO AT LINK - This version does not have the full conversation between Ritchie and 911.

Video has now been release of the August shooting (at about 8:26:55) of Ohio Walmart shopper John Crawford III. A grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Beavercreek Officer Sean Williams. But as usatoday.com reports, Crawford’s family claims the shooting constitutes a murder and now “Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Wednesday that he is turning the investigative files over to the U.S. Department of Justice for a civil rights review. The federal government has been monitoring the case and agreed to a review.” It was already known that Crawford had taken a pellet gun from another part of the store and police responded to a report of a man waving a gun around. Does seeing the video change your view of the incident?
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Main Witness In Fatal Wal-Mart Police Shooting Changes His Story

3:24 PM 09/07/2014
CHUCK ROSS
Reporter

A man whose 911 call from inside an Ohio Wal-Mart preceded the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old John Crawford has changed his story.

Ronald Ritchie called 911 from inside the Beavercreek store on Aug. 5 claiming that Crawford was carrying a gun around and aiming it at other shoppers.

“He’s, like, pointing it at people,” Ritchie told 911 dispatchers. He also told reporters after Crawford was shot by two police officers that the man was also pointing the gun at children.

But in an interview with the Guardian, the 24-year-old Ritchie changed that crucial component of his story.

“At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody,” said Ritchie, who now claims that Crawford was “waving it around.”
It turned out that Crawford was carrying an air rifle — and one that Wal-Mart sells. His girlfriend, also the mother of his two children, says that she was on the phone with Crawford at the time of the shooting and that she heard him tell police “It’s not real” before he was shot.

Ritchie also told 911 that Crawford was “trying to load” the gun. According to the Guardian, the air rifle was not loaded. Making matters worse, the 911 dispatcher relayed Ritchie’s claim to police, saying that Crawford “just put some bullets inside.”

Beavercreek police turned the investigation over to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office. DeWine has refused to release video surveillance of the shooting to the public, claiming that doing so would taint a grand jury set to convene on Sept. 22.

DeWine did show Crawford’s family portions of some store surveillance video. They say that it showed that Crawford was not acting erratically with the air rifle.

“You can clearly see people walk past him, and they didn’t think anything about it. Everybody was just kind of minding their own business,” Crawford’s father told the Guardian. “He wasn’t acting in any type of way that he would have been considered menacing, if you will.”

An attorney for Crawford’s family told The Daily Caller last month that the air rifle was not packaged when Crawford initially picked it off the shelf.

They say that video shows Crawford was on his cell phone and was facing towards a store shelf for nearly six minutes when police approached him from behind, ordered him to put the air rifle down, and shot

. (RELATED: Attorney Shares Details Of Wal-Mart Police Shooting Video)

The family attorney told the Guardian that a preliminary autopsy shows that Crawford was shot in the back of his left arm and the left side of his body. That would support the family’s claim that Crawford was not facing police when they shot him.

Though many questions surround Crawford’s death, the incident was quickly obscured by the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Like Brown, Crawford was black. The officers who shot both are white.

Civil rights activists, including Al Sharpton, the national media and even President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in on Brown’s death, though there is evidence that he assaulted the officer who ended up shooting him.

The shooting was tragic in another way. Another shopper, 37-year-old Angela Williams, died from heart failure after hearing the shots fired.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/ma...ges-his-story/

Angela Williams: Woman’s Death Following Walmart Shooting Ruled Homicide

Sep 27, 2014
By NewsOne Staff

Greene County, Ohio coroner Dr. Kevin Sharrett has ruled the death of 37-year-old Angela Williams a homicide due to a heart attack she suffered when police officers stormed a Beavercreek Walmart on Aug. 5 and shot and killed 22-year-old John Crawford III, reports Dayton Daily News.

Sharrett attributes the cause of her death to acute ventricular dysrhythmia due to hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Described otherwise, Williams had an irregular heartbeat causing a cardiac arrest as a consequence of heart disease. The report makes no note of drugs or alcohol in Williams’ system.

The manner of Williams’ death is officially listed as homicide because of the chaotic circumstances inside the Beavercreek Walmart, according William Harden, the Greene County Coroner’s Office chief investigator.

“If she had been walking around normally and just collapsed, that would be a natural death,” he said. “She was fleeing and running.”

Harden said under the care of a cardiologist, her existing heart conditions may have been treated therapeutically or through a surgical device like a stent.

“But her death did not come from her extensive heart problems, it came because she was fleeing,” Harden said.

Williams was shopping in Walmart with her family when she suffered the heart attack in response to the officers shooting Crawford. She was taken to a local hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

As previously reported by NewsOne, even though Crawford’s death was ruled a homicide by gunshot wound to the torso, an Ohio grand jury declined to indict the two police officers, Sean Williams andDavid Darkow, who shot and killed him.

According to police chief Dennis Evers, the officers acted appropriately when they shot the father of two to death.

“The officers gave verbal commands to the subject to drop the weapon,” Evers said in a statement. “The subject … was shot after failing to comply with the officers’ commands. The quick response of officers was instrumental in containing this situation and minimizing the risk to customers.”

But the surveillance video released this week tells a different story.

Crawford can be seen on his cell phone walking around the store, browsing, when he picks up the toy rifle, which according to Special Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier, had been taken out of its box and left on the shelf.

The toy rifle was at Crawford’s side and he was turned away from police officers when they fired on him.

Crawford immediately dropped the toy rifle and ran for cover. He almost instantly pivots—it appears as if another police officer was approaching from the other aisle—and apparently tries to show the officer that he’s unarmed when the fatal shot is fired.

There is almost no time between when the officer first appears and the first shot is fired. In fact, it appears from the surveillance video that Crawford didn’t even see the shot coming.

John Crawford Shooting [Warning: Graphic Content] At Link
http://newsone.com/3056226/angela-williams-womans-death-following-walmart-shooting-ruled-homicide