Beavercreek OH Walmart Eyewitnesses Contradict Police Statements and 911 Caller
Green County Herald / 08/18/2014 / By Virgil Vaduva
How I encountered the Beavercreek Police Department and lived to tell the story
On a cold evening on January 15, 2011 I was eating a burger with a friend at a small restaurant in Beavercreek, when three men with badges and guns interrupted our dinner and demanded with barking orders that we identify ourselves immediately. Our supposed crime? Carrying firearms openly; at least that’s what I assumed as the officers refused to tell us what crime we were being suspected of having committed and did not clearly communicate to me under what State law we were required to provide identification to them, and copies of our Concealed Carry permits.
A few minutes earlier a man in the restaurant called 911 and told the operator that a “crazy looking European guy” has a gun on him. A beard and a warm knitted hat apparently are qualifiers for “crazy looking” in this new United States of America. The operator told him incorrectly that it was against the law to openly carry a gun in Ohio. The sergeant on duty, Colmes, also gave the same incorrect information to the dispatcher, creating a very dangerous situation between two armed men having dinner and three armed police officers being dispatched to handle “crazy looking people” after a misleading and outright false 911 call. You can listen to the January 15, 2011 calls and dispatch audio here: https://vimeo.com/19343973 (Note: the video displays an incorrect time-stamp of 2010. The correct year is 2011)