So far, seems a tragic chain of events with highly conflicting accounts (per usual) ranging from the man refused orders by police to they simply walked up and shot him in the back.
The man being a black of course fuels this one. The stand out of this story so far however, the witness who called police, telling them man as waving the gun and attempting to reload it, etc, telling news outlets he was an ex Marine, recants pretty much all of it:
Obviously, responding police have to go on what the dispatch tells them who's going on the 911 call they received. When they showed to find him holding this while responding to a "man with a gun" call, it didn't end well:
"Shopper Ronald Ritchie originally told police that John Crawford III was pointing a gun at children and adults when he picked the unloaded weapon off a shelf in Walmart, but now says "at no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody."

It appears like a chain of bad choices and human error leading to a tragedy, but without all the facts, it's impossible to conclude at this time (which means most have already made up their mind) whether the responding LEOs jumped the gun (no pun intended) or if it was a legit shoot.
Again, conflicting reports abound, between "he refused to comply with instructions" to "they walked up and shot him in the back"
The man being black, obviously adds to the leaps to conclusions of a racially motivated shooting by LE minus having all the facts in, but facts don't tend ot change the bias of people anyway. As always, the media doing its best to make it a racial story, and make sure to quote anyone willing to call it an "execution" by police:
There's just a lot of stupid in this tragedy, for example:
"Walking in the sporting goods section, he approached a shelf and picked up a MK-177 BB/pellet air rifle, which was already unboxed."
Really? Is it sold like that or just happened to be out of the box. If the former, in this day and age, should such a pellet gun be sold minus a box, or other tags, etc that make it clear it's a store item?
If the latter, in this day and age, would you walk around with that in a store full of people and really be clueless to the fact someone might freak out? Really?
There's various details like that which show very poor judgement, use of common sense, etc that easily could have avoided this event.
They are making a big deal of OH being a OC state as a defense, but what's that really matter when LE has to respond to such a 911 call?
I assume they have to approach exactly the same way.
The man being a black of course fuels this one. The stand out of this story so far however, the witness who called police, telling them man as waving the gun and attempting to reload it, etc, telling news outlets he was an ex Marine, recants pretty much all of it:
Obviously, responding police have to go on what the dispatch tells them who's going on the 911 call they received. When they showed to find him holding this while responding to a "man with a gun" call, it didn't end well:
"Shopper Ronald Ritchie originally told police that John Crawford III was pointing a gun at children and adults when he picked the unloaded weapon off a shelf in Walmart, but now says "at no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody."

It appears like a chain of bad choices and human error leading to a tragedy, but without all the facts, it's impossible to conclude at this time (which means most have already made up their mind) whether the responding LEOs jumped the gun (no pun intended) or if it was a legit shoot.
Again, conflicting reports abound, between "he refused to comply with instructions" to "they walked up and shot him in the back"
The man being black, obviously adds to the leaps to conclusions of a racially motivated shooting by LE minus having all the facts in, but facts don't tend ot change the bias of people anyway. As always, the media doing its best to make it a racial story, and make sure to quote anyone willing to call it an "execution" by police:
There's just a lot of stupid in this tragedy, for example:
"Walking in the sporting goods section, he approached a shelf and picked up a MK-177 BB/pellet air rifle, which was already unboxed."
Really? Is it sold like that or just happened to be out of the box. If the former, in this day and age, should such a pellet gun be sold minus a box, or other tags, etc that make it clear it's a store item?
If the latter, in this day and age, would you walk around with that in a store full of people and really be clueless to the fact someone might freak out? Really?
There's various details like that which show very poor judgement, use of common sense, etc that easily could have avoided this event.
They are making a big deal of OH being a OC state as a defense, but what's that really matter when LE has to respond to such a 911 call?
I assume they have to approach exactly the same way.
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