In the land of 'innocent until proven guilty' and an obvious post racial society... I thought this was worth sharing:
Cops caught on film threatening weeping girlfriend of man they had just mistakenly shot dead in Walmart for holding a BB gun
Footage has emerged of police in Ohio aggressively questioning the girlfriend of a man who they had just shot dead for holding a BB gun in a Walmart store.
An officer from the Beavercreek department repeatedly demands to know where the slain John Crawford III, 22, got his 'gun' from in an interview with his weeping girlfriend, Tasha Thomas.
Thomas, who is not told until the end of the interview that her loved one has died, is clearly distressed by the line of question from the disbelieving officer, Rodney Curd, who repeatedly suggests she is lying.
Instead of investigating a tragic 'mistake' (and I use the term very loosely), they began to interrogate the dead mans girlfriend, not even telling her the poor man was dead. In fact, she was so adamant about hers (and his) innocence, that she swore on her dead relatives:
Tasha Thomas swore repeatedly on her own life, and the graves of her dead relatives, that she was being honest, despite Curd telling her she was phrasing her answers like 'someone not telling the truth', and saying he expected her testimony to change later.
At this point, the police were making her swear on her own boyfriends dead body, without her even knowing it. And because shes distraught (and by distraught I mean... black), she was obviously high:
Curd, who warns Thomas she could be jailed for what she says in the interview, also suggests that she looks 'messed up' and could be drunk or high on drugs in footage obtained by the Guardian.
.... Footage from 94-minute interview, released to the news site by the Ohio attorney general, shows Curd grilling Thomas at length on her version of events, at times banging his hand on the table for emphasis.
He also pursues a theory that Crawford had taken his own, real, gun into the store in order to shoot his ex-girlfriend, LeeCee Johnson.
At one point he asks her: 'Did he ever mention "I'm gonna shoot that bitch", or something like that?'
The grand jury of course declined to prosecute (or as the media would say 'found him not guilty'):
Although the grand jury concluded that the shooting was justified, federal officials are looking into the case.
Earlier this month it was reported that Officer Williams, who also killed a man in 2010, will remain on leave until after that investigation.
The real problem of course, is he did not look like this:
6:44 AM PT: