Courtesy of The Guardian:
Police aggressively questioned the tearful girlfriend of a young black man they had just shot dead as he held a BB gun in an Ohio supermarket – accusing her of lying, threatening her with jail, and suggesting that she was high on drugs.
Tasha Thomas was reduced to swearing on the lives of her relatives that John Crawford III had not been carrying a firearm when they entered the Walmart in Beavercreek, near Dayton, to buy crackers, marshmallows and chocolate bars on the evening of 5 August.
“You lie to me and you might be on your way to jail,” detective Rodney Curd told Thomas, as she wept and repeatedly offered to take a lie-detector test. After more than an hour and a half of questioning and statement-taking, Curd finally told Thomas that Crawford, 22, had died.
“As a result of his actions, he is gone,” said the detective, as she slumped in her chair and cried.
For the record John Crawford III was NOT armed when he entered that Wal-Mart.
He only had a BB gun in his possession when he was shot.
This poor woman was on the phone with him when the police opened fire on him.
A 94-minute police video recording, released to the Guardian by the office of Mike DeWine, the Ohio attorney general, in response to a public records request, shows Thomas, 26, being interviewed by Curd after she was driven from Walmart to the Beavercreek police department. Curd later told investigators he had not yet been told Crawford only had a BB gun that had been on sale at the store.
Curd promptly asked Thomas whether she and Crawford had criminal records. Already tearful and breathless, Thomas explained that she may have had some traffic offences and had been arrested for petty theft as a juvenile.
The detective then became increasingly aggressive and banged on the table between them with his hand. “Tell me where he got the gun from,” Curd repeated. Thomas insisted Crawford had been carrying only a white plastic grocery bag when they arrived at Walmart to buy the ingredients to make s’mores at a family cook-out.
Asked one of several times whether Crawford owned a gun, Thomas said: “Not that I know.”
Curd told her: “Don’t tell me ‘not that you know’, because that’s the first thing I realise somebody’s not telling me the truth”.
He later repeated: “You need to tell me the truth” and “You need to be truthful.”
I have to question the fact that his officer claims that he did not know the murdered man only had a BB gun on him. Either he is lying to save face, or else he should never have been in that room interrogating this poor woman with no knowledge of what actually took place.
To me it appears that Detective Curd is trying to get her to say hEr boyfriend was armed in order to provide an excuse for officers to have executed him in that fashion.
When she fails to do so his anger is apparent.
Personally I am disgusted by this.
Where are you getting that Piper is being "groomed" as mini Sarah? She is 13 and lives as a 13 lives. I don't understand the logic behind your propaganda. These kids all have their own lives, but are also big family people because that is what they value.
ReplyDeleteGet back on the right thread for your comment, you crazy lunatic.
DeleteShows what kind of person you are, that you have nothing intelligent to say about this subject.
What the hell has your reply got to do with G's post about aggressive cop behavior? Are you taking stupid pills?
DeleteWhat propaganda and do you even know the definition of propaganda. Expressing one's opinion is not propaganda, and I also want to know if you know the difference between propaganda and factual comments?
DeleteThese kids all have their own lives, but they are also attached to the teat that raised them because they know they don't have to find jobs, particularly Bristol. They continue to show their immaturity and lack of responsibility to go out on their own, and why should they since they have mom to pay them to help put up a front they're an ideal family and not a dysfunctional family which is what their family is.
Bristol is also a poor example for her child, and desperately needs to grow up and be a responsible parent. Inviting men in her house for over night stays is not what a child should see. Her real stupidity shined through when she told her son that her boy friend was a "trail father".
Ok, troll: that is two times in a row that you respond/ say something about your obsession, the PayMe family, on the wrong post.
ReplyDeleteGo take your meds, and stay off the 'Internets' for the rest of the day!
THAT off my chest, Gryphen: the woman 'kind of' arrested and interrogated for 1 1/2 hours is not the same like the one he spoke to when he was killed. He spoke to his ex, but was in the store with his girlfriend.
THAT said - their only crime is 'breathing and living while black' in the USA!
YUP.
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The "officer" got away with this because this woman is poor, confused, upset, and uneducated enough to not understand her rights and be able to protect herself.
ReplyDeleteIf that had been me - HolyHellLordGod would have been needed to protect the LE officer and the whole damn department from mine and my lawyer's wrath.
back on topic;
ReplyDeletewelcome to amerikkka 2014 ?
NEVER talk to the police without a lawyer present.
ReplyDeleteContinual showing of the asshole cops we have throughout this nation. What a friggin' jerk this guy shows himself to be. Hope they fired his ass. The last person I'd call in the USA for help is a community cop! The very last. Cannot be trusted.
ReplyDeleteThe parents of John Crawford just announced this afternoon that they were filing a lawsuit against both of the officers involved, the police department and Wal Mart.
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1:47 Good! Glad to hear that. I was hoping they would. I think that nasty little coward that called 911 should be involved also.
DeleteThis is when a high profile lawyer needs to step up, take this case, just because he can, and kick ass.
Tickles the shit out of me that Wal Mart is included.
Good. These cops are completely out of control and should be charged.
DeleteAbsolutely brilliant response!
ReplyDeleteBrowns Player Offers Thoughtful Rebuke After Police Union Slams T-Shirt Protest
...“Unfortunately, my mom also taught me just as there are good police officers, there are some not-so-good police officers that would assume the worst of me without knowing anything about me for reasons I can’t control. She taught me to be careful and be on the lookout for those not-so-good police officers because they could potentially do me harm and most times without consequences. Those are the police officers that should be offended.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/andrew-hawkins-response-tamir-rice-protest
This guy is just loving the feeling of power he's getting from hammering this woman.
ReplyDeleteI just became aware of this video a day or so ago. Heartfelt sadness for what this young woman went through. The intimidation used by this officer is disgusting.
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G - Thanks for your early morning posting about the Palin clan. I did not leave a note on it as there were so many comments and I got tired of the "yawn" comments by the trolls. I have to think they were coached to use "yawn" - but as always they overdo everything. Wish there was something I could do to help you - but just wanted you to know you are in my thoughts and I wish you well. Stay safe.
My feelings exactly.
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Just reading this I wanted to cry....there is NO WAY I can watch it. How, very, very, sad! I can't even imagine and don't want to assume I even have a clue what it's like to live in shoes that are harassed, judged, threatened every day. Again, all I can say is I'm sad!
ReplyDeleteDetective Curd is a Turd.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest child is 20 years old and he is always raging about the police. I have always had a different view stating that they are not as bad as he is saying they are.
ReplyDeleteI was wrong. They are as bad as my son has been saying. Next time he starts railing against the police, I am going to agree with him.
What the hell is happening in this country? The police are suppose to help you, not murder you when you look at a gun at Walmart. This is second man of color who was murdered while looking at a weapon at Walmart.
Unless this woman is being charged with a crime, she should have walked, or demanded a lawyer. These blatant lies cops are using to get information is strictly for the ammo sexual frame of minds, sickening.
ReplyDeleteWe've got to get rid of these bad cops and replace them with people who do the hard work they swore to do for the PEOPLE they serve. My Bil works as a police officer, and there are things he says sometimes that make my blood boil. This cop does this all day, the poor woman is being toyed with like a cornered mouse to a cat. Did he mirandize her? Offer a lawyer? etc? It's obvious she isn't lieing and he's trying to get her to say she IS.
ReplyDeleteThat was sickening.
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