In Ohio, protests over police shooting of black man in Walmart
Echoes of Ferguson, Mo.? In Columbus, Ohio, some 100 people protested Monday for a video to be released that shows the recent killing of a black man waving an air rifle at a Walmart store.
Echoes of Ferguson, Mo.? In Columbus, Ohio, some 100 people protested Monday for a video to be released that shows the recent killing of a black man waving an air rifle at a Walmart store.
A crowd of about 100 people gathered outside of the Ohio attorney general's office to call for the release of store security video in the fatal police shooting of a black man at a Dayton-area Wal-Mart.
Organizers tell the Dayton Daily News they want to see what happened on Aug. 5 when 21-year-old John Crawford III was fatally shot by police. Officers say he refused to drop an air rifle inside a Wal-Mart store in Beavercreek.
The National Moment of Silence was a vigil has held in some 90 communities across the US to memorialized blacks killed by police action, reports Slate.
The group that gathered Monday night in Columbus called for transparency in the Crawford investigation, which is being headed by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a branch of Attorney General Mike DeWine's office.
DeWine's spokeswoman Jill Del Greco says she's not aware of any plans to release video before the case is closed.
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