COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two years after a white policeman fatally shot a 22-year-old black man in an Ohio Wal-Mart who was carrying an air rifle that he had picked up from a store shelf, the U.S. Department of Justice has yet to conclude its investigation and won't say why, despite the family's push for an update.
Crawford's relatives wonder why the review has taken this long and hasn't been finished, but federal officials won't say, citing the pending investigation by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
A civil rights investigation also was launched after the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot by a white rookie policeman while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun near a Cleveland recreation center in November 2014, just months after Crawford's death.
