After police shot and killed 22-year-old John Crawford in August for picking up a legal BB gun in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, police detective Rodney Curd interrogated Crawford’s girlfriend Tasha Thomas for 90 minutes, suggesting she may have helped him take a gun into the store, even though Crawford had no gun. Detective Curd didn’t tell Thomas that her boyfriend Crawford was dead until the end of the interrogation, the Guardian reported. A grand jury decided in September not to indict the officers who killed Crawford.
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Instead of doing actual police work, like viewing the surveillance footage, which clearly shows he didn’t bring the “gun” in with him, looking at the “gun” and determining that it is not even a fucking “gun,” inquiring as to whether the “gun” is sold in the store that sells a wide range of guns, real and toy, instead of doing that, law enforcement often do this. They simply cannot pass up an opportunity to harass, scare and scar black people, because makes them feel powerful. Which is all any of this is about.
Holy
fucking shit