Skip to footer

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.

  • By Staff Associated Press

| Columbus, Ohio

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.

Beavercreek police have not released a narrative beyond one with a one-line description, "Dispatched to Walmart for a disturbance/weapons complaint."

Monday night's rally was the third since the shooting. Also on Aug. 14, some Dayton-area residents joined with others across the nation in a National Moment of Silence. They held a vigil for Crawford and 37-year-old Angela Williams of Fairborn, who died of a medical episode after she tried to leave the Walmart when shots were fired.

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.

Online activist Feminista Jones organized the protests, collectively called National Moment of Silence 2014, in response to the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In Washington, more than 1,000 people—brought together almost entirely through social media—chanted, shared the stories of those who have died, and debated, often heatedly, the merits of nonviolent protest against police brutality.

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.

___

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to In Ohio, protests over police shooting of black man in Walmart
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0819/In-Ohio-protests-over-police-shooting-of-black-man-in-Walmart
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe