On Saturday afternoon at least a dozen open carry advocates marched in protest of the killing of John Crawford by the Police in Walmart because he was carrying a BB gun that looked real.
Virgil Vaduva, the man in charge of the group, says that the protest is not just about justice, but about educating the public and police alike about the law. Nothing that John Crawford did was illegal. In fact, police did not even have the right to confront him about anything he had done, and would not have had that right even if he was carrying an actual assault weapon like protesters did today, standing in the very place he lost his life to over-zealous police.
Today, Supporters have occupied the Beavercreek police station and will remain until their demands are met.
They want Williams removed from the force, they want to overhaul the police training materials that they blame for Williams and Sgt. David Darkow’s aggressive response to Crawford, and, Davis says, “we want to really start a conversation around how we fundamentally shift the power dynamics and relationship between law enforcement and community. Law enforcement ranging from police officers to sheriff to county prosecutor.”
There seems to be a growing bipartisan consensus that there are serious problems with police forces in the US, although ideas on specifics, and specific solutions, do vary.
5:32 PM PT: To be completely clear, the open carry protesters are not the same people that are at the police station to my knowledge.