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Cincinnati police officer charged for shooting, killing black man

The area prosecutor, Joe Deters of Hamilton County, did not hesitate to call the shooting a murder at a press conference. “This office has probably reviewed upwards of hundreds of police shootings, and this is the first time that we’ve thought this is without question a murder,” he said.

“It was so unnecessary for this to occur.”

Samuel DuBose, 43, was shot by Officer Ray Tensing. Officer Tensing claimed that he had been dragged by the car of DuBose during a traffic stop — that is what the University police report shows — but Deter said the body camera video tells a different story. The Officer did fall back to the ground, but as a result of shooting DuBose, Deters said.

Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell has seen the video and yesterday he said what he saw was “not good.” At that time he said he hoped “that the right thing continues to be done in this investigation and that we’re able to move forward from this and allow this to be a moment of learning and teaching for our city.”

The video has been made public, officials doing so after the Grand Jury had a chance to see it. The prosecutor called the shooting “asinine” and said that if DuBose was intending to leave the traffic stop rather than shoot him, the Officer should have simply let him leave, noting Tensing had the license plate number of DuBose. Deters said the shooting was “totally unwarranted” and the worst act he has seen performed by a police officer in 40 years.

He called the incident “a pretty chicken-crap stop.”

Officer Tensing had been placed on administrative leave after the shooting but is now being taken into custody. His attorney, Stew Matthews, said he believes that the video shows “that my client was legitimately in fear of his life when he fired his weapon.”

The University cancelled classes for the day from “an abundance of caution.”

Meanwhile, the grieving family of Sam DuBose held a press conference. His tear-stricken mother, Audrey DuBose, said she was grateful the video exists and relieved that the Officer who killed her son has been charged. She said her son, the father of a 9-year-old boy, was physically frail and was not capable of harming anyone.

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