Like the Mike Brown murder in Missouri and the Eric Garner murder in New York, many throughout the nation are struggling to understand how an unarmed African-American father with a toy gun was gunned down by police inside a Walmart in suburban Dayton, Ohio.
To help you understand the attitude towards people of color in the suburb where the shooting took place (whose residents are approximately 90% white), the Beavercreek City Council fought the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) for more than 3 years over adding three new bus stops that has given Dayton bus-riders access to a major shopping mall, businesses and Wright State University. Note that 73% of bus-riders in the Dayton area are of color.
Protests have been ongoing on behalf of John Crawford III with the latest scheduled for August 16, 2014 at 7:00 pm at the Beavercreek Police Station. According to organizers, the goal of the protest is to demand the release of video footage from the crime scene. The family of John Crawford III continues to seek answers to the police shooting inside of Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio. Social media users on Twitter have also highlighted the concerns by the hashtag #RELEASETHETAPE
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