U of Cincinnati cop Tensing indicted for murder of Samuel Dubose

[malaise]

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/07/29/publish/30830777/
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University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing was indicted Wednesday on a murder charge for fatally shooting Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop July 19.

It’s the first time a police officer in the city has been charged with murder for killing someone while on duty.

Video from the officer’s body camera shows a routine traffic stop turning suddenly violent when DuBose leans toward the passenger seat and Tensing fires a single shot into his head. DuBose did not appear to be belligerent or aggressive before the officer fired.

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That is scary video

[jberryhill]

1. Whoa, that's just an execution

Out of nowhere, he leans in, grabs at the guy and shoots him in the head.

Unreal.

[RockaFowler]

2. Why did he think he would get away with the lies??

I guess he forgot that he was wearing that camera

That video is so tough to watch.

Oh and you have to have a front license plate in Ohio?? Seriously messed up . . .

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. I actually didn't think you had to have one, and I live in Ohio.

I'm pretty sure all the folks I know have front and back, but I thought only back was mandatory.

[JesterCS]

8. Re:front plate

It's not required by law to have the front plate on. Only the back is required.

[countryjake]

4. I'm stunned that the grand jury actually recommended an indictment...

and, if that video didn't exist, I haven't a doubt that they wouldn't have. Reading that incident report, it's obvious the cops assumed that their lies would trump what actually occurred.

I lived down there in Cincy more than forty years ago and back then, Tensing's attitude (and actions) were the norm and cops held free rein to terrorize Black people, with no accountability, whatsoever.

I'm glad and thank the stars for this "technical information age" that we now live in but how incredibly sad for Sam Dubose's family. I cannot imagine the grief they must have felt when they viewed his last living moments.

That video is an outrage.

[Blue_Tires]

5. I told everyone here that Zimmerman's acquittal would lead to

open season on black folks, and everyone said I was being hysterical and overly dramatic...

Was I wrong?

[tblue37]

10. I don't think the rate has actually increased because of Z's murder of Trayvon Martin.

I think that the ubiquitousness of cell phones, plus the fact that body cams and dash cams are also becoming more common, has uncompromisingly revealed something that was going on all along.

I also think that each new outrage captured on video and spread virally by way of social media makes it harder and harder for those who want to live in denial to continue to do so.

The violence against Civil Rights protesters--especially the flamboyant brutality of Bull Connor and his stormtroopers against peaceful black marchers, including obviously innocent young children and old people--was caught on film and shown on the network news broadcasts, which almost everyone watched back then. That visual exposure really helped open the eyes of complacent white people, just as exposure to filmed reports from Viet Nam helped turn the nation against the Viet Nam War.

And now that Americans have become more aware, a lot more people are stepping up to record police behavior, so we have a kind of feedback loop going on, causing the awareness and the sense of outrage to grow even more rapidly than they otherwise might.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Well, the number of high-profile incidents has certainly risen...

I can hardly keep track...

[HipChick]

6. There's more posts about Cecil the Lion murder

than the state murder of black men in this country..

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[tblue37]

9. Officers at Sam DuBose scene involved in death of another unarmed black man:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/30/samuel-dubose-officers-kelly-brinson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[center]Officers at Sam DuBose Scene Involved in Death of Another Unarmed Black Man:
[font size = "-1"]Five years before University of Cincinnati officers Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd
corroborated the seemingly false account of an officer now charged
with murder, they helped as Kelly Brinson was shocked and shackled

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Two police officers who corroborated a seemingly false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati were previously implicated in the death of an unarmed, hospitalised and mentally ill black man who died after he was “rushed” by a group of seven University of Cincinnati police officers.

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The documents named University of Cincinnati officers Eric Weibel and Phillip Kidd – the same men who, in a formal report, supported officer Ray Tensing’s claim that he was “dragged” by DuBose’s vehicle on 19 July.

Tensing’s account that he was “dragged” was used as justification for the lethal use of force. It was later dismissed as an attempt to mislead investigators and as “making an excuse for the purposeful killing of another person” by the Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters, who charged Tensing with murder on Wednesday.

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The revelation that officers Weibel and Kidd provided the corroboration for Tensing’s account of the incident was met with anger by Brinson’s family members, who told the Guardian on Thursday that if both officers had been disciplined correctly in 2010, the death of DuBose might have been avoided <emphasis added>.

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