Video Shows Man Gunned Down by Cops in OH Walmart Was Leaning on Air Rifle,Not Holding It

[phill4paul]

 

[ClydeCoulter]

On the video, looks like the kid didn't even have the bb gun at the time he was shot. The police are at the extreme end of the isle when he drops it and hits the ground, then gets back up and gets shot?

 

[tod evans]

1:28 in the video looks like he was swinging the BB gun back-n-forth muzzle pointed down when he took the first round...He drops the BB gun and appears to limp/stagger around the end of the isle..

 

[specsaregood]

sickening

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

I'm so glad the officers didn't get hurt !!!

 

[enhanced_deficit]

I'm so glad the officers didn't get hurt !!!

[h=3]Video: SC trooper charged with felony in shooting of unarmed black man after traffic stop[/h]

 

[aGameOfThrones]

next time I see kids playing with toy guns I will call the cops and tell them that 2 active shooters are shooting each other with invisible bullets

 

[Anti Federalist]

And I'm supposed to hate Eric Frein, why again, exactly?

 

[Influenza]

So they shot him from ~50 ft away and as that wasn't enough they finished him off at point blank range?

Get a rope!

 

[SeanTX]

next time I see kids playing with toy guns I will call the cops and tell them that 2 active shooters are shooting each other with invisible bullets

Somebody beat ya to it ...

http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/loc...oting-of-14-year-old-freak-accident/16186877/

Sheriff: Fatal shooting of 14-year-old 'freak accident'
Xerxes Wilson / Houma Courier 8:52 a.m. CDT September 25, 2014

HOUMA, La. -- Only the handful of terrified teenagers and the Terrebonne Parish sheriff's deputy in the Village East home when Cameron Tillman died can say exactly what happened Tuesday evening, and their stories do not match.

The 14-year-old Tillman was killed by four shots fired by the deputy just before 6 p.m. Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Sheriff Jerry Larpenter defended the deputy, saying the still unnamed seven-year veteran of the department "feared for his life" when confronted by what appeared to be a 45-caliber pistol but was actually a BB gun designed to look like a Sig Sauer .45. Family of the three teenagers who made it out of the house alive claim the deputy had a "killer mentality."

Deputies were called to the ramshackle two-bedroom brick home on Kirkglen Loop east of Houma by a neighbor's report of five or six men "brandishing guns" as they entered the vacant house, Larpenter said.

Within minutes, two deputies parked three houses down from the home. One of the lawmen remained outside, Larpenter said. The other entered the open garage, its plywood walls decorated with the scribbling of the teens who had made the house a regular afternoon hangout since the last tenant left about two years ago.

What happened as the deputy neared the door leading into the home is disputed by the deputy and families involved.

"He knocked on the door and said 'Sheriff's Office, come out.' A very short time after, Tillman threw the door open brandishing that gun toward the officer. The officer feared for his life, and, unfortunately, the individual was shot four times," Larpenter claims. "He (Tillman) turned that gun toward the deputy, and that deputy had to shoot or assume he would be shot."

Family members of the other teens in the house said their children claim Tillman wasn't holding the BB gun when he answered the door. They also dispute the deputy announcing himself as law enforcement, saying Cameron opened the door expecting a friend.

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[aGameOfThrones]

Somebody beat ya to it ...

http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/loc...oting-of-14-year-old-freak-accident/16186877/

"He knocked on the door and said 'Sheriff's Office, come out.' A very short time after, Tillman threw the door open brandishing that gun toward the officer. The officer feared for his life, and, unfortunately, the individual was shot four times," Larpenter claims. "He (Tillman) turned that gun toward the deputy, and that deputy had to shoot or assume he would be shot."

Eric frein doesn't believe you!

 

[libertyjam]

We could dream that the Ohio case will actually follow the law and actually be charged with murder. ... No, I thought not.

Ohio “Open Carry” Laws Could Spell Murder Charges for Cops who Shot Innocent Man

http://theantimedia.org/ohio-open-c...urder-charges-for-cops-who-shot-innocent-man/

There can be no immunity in this case for the officers because even if he was carrying a gun, which he was not, they didn’t have legal grounds to question him. They were not operating within the law. Police only have immunity when adhering to the law. This was murder.
This is no different than if I, as a journalist, walked up to you at a public park while you were grilling and told you to put the fork down. You laugh and say “It’s not even sharp,” and then I open fire and kill you. You legally possessed an object, threatened nobody, and were murdered by someone that had no legal reason to even question what you were doing. That’s what happened to Mr. Crawford.

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This isn’t an accidental shooting during the course of an investigation. This wasn’t a case of failing to comply with a lawful order. This was murder. It must be charged as such, or Beavercreek’s Police will be seen the same way departments across the country are seen. Departments whose officers face daily threats to life and limb from a public that knows the people with the badges are more of a threat to public safety than any criminal on the streets.

 

[phill4paul]