LISTEN: Cops harassed man filming them, cooked up charges to "cover our ass"

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I was going to say, I really don’t understand how it could be that no open-carry proponent hasn’t been shot by police yet; but maybe they have! Maybe it’s happening frequently and never gets reported as such!

The Answer to the Question "What Happens to a Black Man with a (toy) Rifle in an Open Carry State?"

John Crawford Shooting: Open Carry for Whites; Open Season on Blacks - The Root I didn’t hear about this until today… I guess with the Ferguson hub-bub this story got drowned out. Crawford was shopping at the Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart on Aug. 6, and at some point, he allegedly picked up one of the air rifles sold by the retail chain. What’s known definitively is that the police were called in response to Crawford, and when they arrived, they shot him fatally. His partner, LeeCee Johnson, was…

Also, Tamir Rice was in an open carry State when police executed him.
Tamir Rice Shooting and Open Carry Laws - Ohio’s Open Carry Law Does Not Apply to Everyone