The events leading to the death of John Crawford III on Aug. 5 are disputed: the Beavercreek, Ohio police officers who shot Crawford claim that the young black man in Wal-Mart was waving around what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle (but was actually a BB/pellet rifle) and would not abandon the weapon when asked. An attorney for Crawford’s family claims that Crawford was talking on a cell phone and leaning on the toy gun, when the police officers shot him.

The Crawford family’s attorney claims that video surveillance indisputably proves their story, but Ohio’s attorney general Mike DeWine refuses to publicly release the footage, blocking the media’s numerous attempts to access it.

“Trust the system,” he said. “There will be ample time later for people to criticize what is done, and I’m fully aware of that, but let the judicial process work.”

The Sandusky Register reports that DeWine showed the video to Crawford’s father and the attorney after a protest outside his office Aug. 18.

DeWine said he showed them four minutes of video of the shooting. He declined to discuss details of what the surveillance video shows.

LeeCee Johnson, the mother of Crawford’s children, was on the phone with him when he was shot, according to the Dayton Daily News.

“[The] next thing I know, he said ‘It’s not real,’ and the police start shooting and they said ‘Get on the ground,’