I said "in WalMart". Surely that narrows it down.

• Ohh, sure, very few places with them in it.

He's talking on his phone, looking at the shelves and holding the pellet gun pointed at the ground.

• OK, looked at the footage. Is your point here, he didn't hear the cops tell him to put the weapon down because he was on his phone? Seems silly. Also, and again - if you are holding something that looks like a weapon in public, how do you think cops are going to react? Seriously. Whether you are white, or black, or brown, or Asian, or any of the in between, you will be treated the same. That isn't racism, that is looking after the public good.

Also, from your own link..

shows he was was shot from the side as he moved to run away from advancing officers.

• That is, he was shot after he was told to put it down. He was moving away when he was shot.

Police had repeatedly been told via a customer on the line to a 911 dispatcher that John Crawford III was pointing the gun at shoppers and may have loaded it with bullets. But the footage, released by prosecutors on Wednesday, shows Crawford walking past several customers in the minutes before he died without pointing the gun at them.

• So, the cops were told that he was pointing the gun at customers. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't - but the info the cops had, was that he was, and thus was a threat.

Also, and again from your own link... (Not that this means much, but just to put further nails in your idea here)

A grand jury in Greene County declined on Wednesday to indict Sean Williams, the police officer who shot Crawford, on charges of murder, reckless homicide or negligent homicide. After hearing from 18 witnesses and considering video and audio evidence, the jurors concluded on their third day in session that Williams acted reasonably in shooting Crawford dead at the store in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton.

Now, I am not saying this isn't a tragic event - however, if you go into a public place, swing a realistic looking rifle around, you are playing with fire, and that isn't racism - that is someone not being aware of what their actions are causing to other people, and what it is saying to other people..