Beavercreek Police | Body cam - Clark County Ohio deputy shoots a reporter, 9/4/2017 @BeavercreekPolice | Uploaded September 2017 | Updated October 2024, 13 minutes ago.
At the end of Labor Day, September 4, 2017, a Clark County, Ohio sheriff deputy mistook the camera and tripod of a reporter for a weapon. Without warning, the deputy fired two shots at the reporter.
The deputy and the reporter know each other.
This is the video from the body cam worn by the deputy.
Like the shooting of John Crawford in a Beavercreek Walmart store in 2014, an investigation is being handled by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), and the office of the Ohio Attorney General. Neither the Beavercreek Police nor the Ohio Attorney General would release the store surveillance video prior to the decision of a grand jury.
In glaring contrast to the John Crawford murder, the Clark County Sheriff has released this video evidence less than 48 hours after the incident.
Two shots are fired near 3:30.
Contrary to the actions of Beavercreek Police Officer Sean Williams (John Crawford's murderer), this Clark County deputy takes responsibility. He immediately provides support and an apology to the victim.
A spoken driver's license number and a phone number have been redacted from this recording.
The victim survived the shooting.
At the end of Labor Day, September 4, 2017, a Clark County, Ohio sheriff deputy mistook the camera and tripod of a reporter for a weapon. Without warning, the deputy fired two shots at the reporter.
The deputy and the reporter know each other.
This is the video from the body cam worn by the deputy.
Like the shooting of John Crawford in a Beavercreek Walmart store in 2014, an investigation is being handled by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), and the office of the Ohio Attorney General. Neither the Beavercreek Police nor the Ohio Attorney General would release the store surveillance video prior to the decision of a grand jury.
In glaring contrast to the John Crawford murder, the Clark County Sheriff has released this video evidence less than 48 hours after the incident.
Two shots are fired near 3:30.
Contrary to the actions of Beavercreek Police Officer Sean Williams (John Crawford's murderer), this Clark County deputy takes responsibility. He immediately provides support and an apology to the victim.
A spoken driver's license number and a phone number have been redacted from this recording.
The victim survived the shooting.
![Ronald Ritchies bogus 911 call synchronized to security video [ZOOMED - EXCLUSIVE]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yLo5XOjffdk/hqdefault.jpg "Ronald Ritchies bogus 911 call synchronized to security video [ZOOMED - EXCLUSIVE]
This is a zoomed version of a related video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CZ7fH7i_M
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This is a correction to the video that the Ohio Attorney General presented to the public. This video shows the police shooting of the unarmed John Crawford III in a Beavercreek, OH Walmart store on August 5, 2014.
The OAG presented a similar video with a 30 frame per second timecode embedded at the bottom of the frame. But the Walmart source video was only recorded at 5 frames per second. To fit the 30 fps format, the OAG padded their video with duplicate frames. You can review their video frame by frame and see that they did not accurately match the frames of the two videos.
[The YouTube upload process mangled this video into 6fps, causing a visible stutter. Please send a personal message to get a link to the source video.]
The audio has also been improved. The right channel includes the original 911 call. The left channel includes a clarified version that is louder and with less noise.
3:55 (08:25:40:1) Ritchie lies, He just pointed it at like two children.
4:30 (08:26:17:1) Ritchie can see Crawford is holding the phone Hes on the phone. This is an observation that neither officer presented in their own statements. Neither officer bothered to realize the phone held in his left hand. Sgt. Darkow claimed Crawford had both hands on the gun.
5:07 (08:26:53:0) We hear a murmur close to the phone, likely Ritchie expressing surprise to see one of the officers step into the aisle.
5:08 (08:26:54:3) We hear a distant vocalization from an officer that may be the word down. But nothing proceeds it in the recording. There is no sign that the recording was muted. Was the officer stammering to issue the first command? Was he not loud enough to be heard? Ronald Ritchie claims the direction was put it down so we may only be hearing the last emphasized word as Sgt. Darkow warmed up his yelling voice.
5:09 (08:26:55:1) A full command to put the weapon down is heard. (You will hear gunfire before the command is completed.)
5:09 (08:26:55:2) Officer Williams body begins to turn toward his victim.
5:10 (08:26:56:0) The first shot is heard. (Officer Williams had 3/5 of a second to view his victim before firing. Hes a good shot but a lousy law enforcement officer.)
5:10 (08:26:56:2) A distortion is seen as a horizontal line in the middle of the pet aisle camera. Some suspect this was an effect of the percussion of the shot as it vibrated electronics.")
