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countryjake

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9. Thanks for posting this, FarPoint.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 04:35 PM
Sep 2014

My opinion is that this was a modern-day lynching. Ronald Ritchie and his wife, April, provided false information to the authorities both before and after the shooting, resulting in the homicide of John Crawford III and also the death of the terrified shopper who collapsed after the cops began shooting inside that Walmart.

Like you, I am familiar with that area and the murder of this young black man and the resulting exoneration of those responsible for his death does not surprise me, at all.


Doubts cast on witness's account of black man killed by police in Walmart Sunday 7 September 2014
Alleged to have threatened customers, John Crawford, 22, was having a phone conversation while holding an unloaded BB gun
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/07/ohio-black-man-killed-by-police-walmart-doubts-cast-witnesss-account


U.S. Department of Justice to review Walmart shooting Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014
http://www.whio.com/news/news/local/us-department-justice-review-walmart-shooting/nhTNz/

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