Beavercreek Police Detective Rodney Curd interviews Tasha Thomas immediately following the murder of her boyfriend, John Crawford III, by the Beavercreek Police on August 5, 2014. John Crawford was shot while holding an unloaded BB gun that he picked up from a shelf at Walmart. Store security video evidence proves that John Crawford made no threat to customers or the police. This unfortunate event was compounded by Tasha Thomas' own death from a car crash on January 1, 2015. While this is a public record, there was hesitation to post this video on YouTube. It shows a vulnerable crime victim being asked to expose personal information. In addition to this interview, Tasha Thomas consented to searches of her vehicle and her phone, none of which had any involvement in the incident. Tasha Thomas' cooperates fully with the police, despite the idiotic questions coming from a clueless and rude detective. Tasha did more than any person should need to do. This video shows an impressive woman. 1:15 The interview begins with Detective Rodney Curd asking if Tasha Thomas has any weapons on her. 4:40 Curd: "You understand, you're not under arrest...I don't want to scare you or anything. You haven't done anything." Miranda rights are not read. 20:00 Detective Curd reveals his inability to process the situation and threatens Thomas. "I want to be very clear, OK? That man got a weapon at some point, I understand, OK? That man produced that weapon. That man had the weapon when you picked him up. He had it in your car or something. You understand that we're investigating a serious incident? You lie to me and you might be on your way to jail." 20:50 Curd takes his stupidity to a new level by introducing the idea that Crawford had the gun to hurt his ex in the store. "Was she in the store?" 22:22 Curd: "Did he ever make the comment that he was going to go shoot her or anything like that?" 27:15 Tasha Thomas offers the logic that escapes Curd. When asked why she didn't know about the gun, Thomas replies, "If I would have known, I would have never said 'is my boyfriend still in there?'... It's what I kept asking everybody". 31:55 Curd returns to the insane idea of Crawford shooting his ex in Cincinnati (all the way from the store in Beavercreek). 32:35 Curd asks if Thomas is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. "Your eyes are kind of messed up". The idiotic detective cannot be certain if it is because she has been crying. 33:45 Curd: "Did he know his ex-wife was in the store?" (She was not.) 39:20 They both return to the room. 46:50 Curd returns to the room to get a written statement. 47:45 Police ask Thomas for permission to search her vehicle. She cooperates, even though there is no legal requirement. "I don't have anything to hide." 52:30 Curd returns to the room to get written permission to search her vehicle. He also asks for consent to search her phone. (She would be denied access to her property for days.) 58:00 Curd returns. 59:40 The excessively cooperative Thomas extends an offer to search her house as well. 1:19:00 Curd returns. 1:19:40 Curd reveals for the first time that a rifle was involved. 1:21:35 Curd: "As I understand it, he produced a long rifle and I have a problem thinking that you wouldn't have seen that at some point if it would had been in the car with you. It had to been if he went with you to the store." Even the shooting officers, which had much less time to think about their actions, recognized in their reports that Walmart sells guns. 1:21:52 Curd: "Why did you not see that?" 1:21:54 Thomas: "Exactly." 1:23:55 Curd wonders if Crawford intended self-injury. 1:24:40 After harassing Thomas for over an hour, Curd introduces a victim witness to support Thomas. 1:27:50 Curd returns to tell Thomas that they will be holding on to her vehicle, even though he previously told her that she could tell them to stop searching it at any time. 1:29:00 Curd reveals John's death. 1:29:15 Curd: "What happened there wasn't a good thing and as a result of his actions he is gone." 1:31:55 Thomas asks for her phone back. It will not be returned for days.

• published: 30 Jan 2015
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