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Originally Posted by dissentowner
In the video I did not hear anyone instruct the man to drop the weapon nor was there anyone around to be threatened by that weapon. I saw officers arrive on scene and just shoot the suspect with no verbal warning whatsoever. I could not police down there.
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Well if you had bothered to read the text around the video you would have noticed that the audio from the surveillance footage is muted and the only audio on the tape is synced with the radio transmissions.
Further to that, I question how we determine this as police brutality when a grand jury has already stated the officers were justified in their actions. This has gone in front of the legal process and deemed to be proper. If anything, the outrage should be towards the legal system if they think the laws are too lax or inappropriate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5876574.html
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Officers' actions were justified in the fatal shooting of a man holding an air rifle inside an Ohio Wal-Mart store, a grand jury determined Wednesday — using surveillance video the slain man's family said shows the shooting was completely unjustified.
The Greene County grand jury opted not to issue any indictments in the Aug. 5 death of 22-year-old John Crawford III inside a Wal-Mart in Beavercreek, Special Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier said.
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But Lori Shaw, a University of Dayton law professor who has been following the case, said she was not surprised with the grand jury's decision.
"I think in this particular instance, because the police had reason to believe that a weapon was involved, it made it much less likely that there would be a charge," Shaw said.
She said with mass shootings that have taken place in a variety of public places, police can be under added pressure in such cases.
"We're in 2014 ... I think the public is a lot more on edge, and I'm sure that police are more on edge," she said.
"It's a tragic situation all the way around," she added.
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