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August 28, 2014

Ohio Protesters Call for Probe into Police Shooting of Black Walmart Customer 
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Protesters have gathered in Dayton, Ohio, to call for a federal probe
into the fatal police shooting of an African-American man in a
Beavercreek Walmart. Police say John Crawford ignored commands to drop a
gun, which turned out later to be a BB gun he had picked up from a
shelf. But an attorney for the family of Crawford says surveillance
video, which has not been released publicly, shows Crawford was leaning
on the butt of the gun while talking on a cellphone when he was "shot on
sight." Ohio's attorney general has assigned a special prosecutor to
investigate the case.

 

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