Judge declares mistrial in of Cincinnati cop’s murder trial
A judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the murder trial of a former police officer for the University of Cincinnati charged in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist.
{mosads}After 25 hours of jury deliberation, the judge for the Hamilton Common Pleas Court declared a mistrial, CNN reported.
The former officer, Ray Tensing, testified that he shot Sam DuBose after a routine traffic stop had gone awry in July of 2015. Tensing claimed that after reaching into the car, DuBose began to drive away and he feared being run over by the vehicle, causing him to fire his gun.
“I remember thinking, ‘Oh, my God, he’s going to run me over and he’s going to kill me,’ ” Tensing said during his testimony.
The shooting was caught on the officer’s body camera, though it is out of focus for parts of the incident.
Prosecutors argued that the footage shows the officer’s arm was not caught in the vehicle and that the vehicle began to move after the officer shot his gun from a standing position.
The shooting came about a year after the protests in Ferguson, Mo. following the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Tensions were high in the summer of 2015 as the Black Lives Matter movement began to gain traction and insert itself into the political discourse of the early presidential primary campaigns.
A report published in June of 2016 by the University of Cincinnati found that Tensing “led the department not only in the number of stops and citations, but also in the racial disparity among those being stopped.”
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