Escalating Police Violence, ‘Beavercreek Is The New Ferguson’
The Beavercreek Police Department seems to have decided that Ohio should be “ground zero” in the national protests against police brutality. Not only did they gun down John Crawford III, back in August, just for holding a toy gun in a Walmart that sold the same gun, but they have been brutalizing anyone and everyone who dares so much as photograph them at recent protests.
The recent escalation of violence by the controversial rogue department has proven what many protesters where saying today at the Fairfield Commons Mall, across the street from where John Crawford was killed: “Beavercreek is the new Ferguson!” The Beavercreek Police Department was out in force at today’s “die in” protest. Officers were even photographed stomping on a banner with Eric Garner’s name on it. Eric Garner was choked to death by New York City Police even though he was non-violent and unarmed.