{"id":15021,"date":"2014-12-18T18:07:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15021"},"modified":"2014-12-18T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:01:11","slug":"the-guardian-video-shows-john-crawfords-girlfriend-aggressively-questioned-after-ohio-police-shot-him-dead-in-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15021","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: Video shows John Crawford’s girlfriend aggressively questioned after Ohio police shot him dead in Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian: Video shows John Crawford’s girlfriend aggressively questioned after Ohio police shot him dead in Walmart<\/a> by Jon Swaine:<\/p>\n

Video shows Ohio detective accusing her of lying and threatening her with jail
\nTasha Thomas only told of Crawford\u2019s death after 90-minute interrogation
\nOfficer who shot black man in Walmart lied, victim\u2019s mother says
\nOhio Walmart video reveals last moments before officer shot man
\n<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 accusing her of lying, threatening her with jail, and suggesting that she was high on drugs.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou lie to me and you might be on your way to jail,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of his actions, he is gone,\u201d said the detective, as she slumped in her chair and cried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian: Video shows John Crawford’s girlfriend aggressively questioned after Ohio police shot him dead in Walmart by Jon Swaine: Video shows Ohio detective accusing her of lying and threatening her with jail Tasha Thomas only told of Crawford\u2019s death … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15024,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15021\/revisions\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}