Ohio police officer who shot and killed black 22-year-old says he faced ‘imminent threat’

Beavercreek officer Sean Williams killed John Crawford in Walmart in 2014Crawford’s relatives’ lawsuit alleges negligence by police department and storeA white Ohio police officer who fatally shot a black man in a Walmart store says he believed he faced an “imminent threat”, although he acknowledges he never saw the man point what turned out to be an air rifle or threaten anyone.The Beavercreek officer Sean Williams made his statements during a deposition in a federal lawsuit filed by the family of John Crawford III. Crawford, 22, was killed 5 August 2014, after police responded to a 911 call about someone waving a rifle in a store in Beavercreek, a Dayton suburb. Continue reading…

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/04/ohio-police-officer-walmart-beavercreek-sean-williams