Cops shooting and killing man with toy gun video released

[Max Headroom]

eavercreek officers claim that they shot Crawford after he ignored their commands and refused to drop the BB gun. The family of Crawford vigorously disputes that notion.

“It was an execution, no doubt about it,” alleged Crawford’s father, John Crawford II. “It was flat-out murder. And when you see the footage, it will illustrate that.”
The video of the incident seems to bolster the families claims, as there is absolutely no reaction by Crawford until he is hit by gunfire presumably.

Additionally, preliminary autopsy findings show that Crawford was shot in the back of his left arm and in his left side, which supports the claim that he was never even facing the officers that shot him, as shown in the video. These facts support a narrative that officers never made verbal contact with Crawford, but instead simply gunned him down on sight.

When reviewing the video, Crawford neither points the weapon at anyone, nor does he have any type of body language suggesting that he ever heard any commands given to him to drop the BB gun if they were actually given. It’s much more likely, judging from the surveillance video, that officers simply shot Crawford on sight without giving him the opportunity to drop the toy gun.

[Flowerz]

That's actually kind of sad. I mean common sense should tell you not to pick up something that people will think is a rifle and walk around a store... poking bread with it... or w/e the fuck he was doing. Very foolish of him, but not necessarily his fault. The rifle should have been in a box or something. Its also not the cops fault. I would have done the same thing in their shoes. Some guy walking around a crowded store with a rifle is very serious, 1 second of hesitation and shit could hit the fan quick. Really, the only people to blame are walmart, and you can't really blame them that much, the people who work at walmart are retarded, you can't expect them to not to make some mistakes. This is a tragedy like a car accident caused by a tire unexpectedly exploding on the highway or something.

E: lol at his and his fathers name though. Guess there won't be no John crawford IIII (Seriously do they think they are ancient nobility or something??)

[Nigger Nostrils]

Good riddance to a worthless sizzurp chugging monkey. I lol'ed when the guy mentioned "afro" when describing him