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December 17, 2014

Ohio: Family of John Crawford Sues Wal-Mart, Police over Killing 
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In Ohio, the family of John Crawford, a 22-year-old African American
shot dead by police as he held an unloaded BB gun inside a Wal-Mart,
have filed a federal lawsuit against the retailer and the police
department. The lawsuit accuses Wal-Mart of negligently leaving the gun
unpackaged on a shelf and faults police for shooting Crawford within a
second of their initial contact. Surveillance footage shows Crawford was
on the phone with the gun swinging loosely toward the ground. But a
grand jury found the shooting was justified.

 

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