Revolution News has reported that multiple media outlets in Cincinnati, Ohio have sued the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office to force the release of body cam video showing the brutal murdering of an innocent African-American man by a police officer.
The city of Cincinnati was said to have been on tenterhooks when a man named Sam Dubose was shot in the face by a University of Cincinnati Police Officer, Ray Tensing, at a routine traffic stop.
Eyewitnesses said Dubose was pulled over about a mile from the University’s campus for driving without a front license plate. It was unclear what actually happened, but Dubose had his face blown off and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officer Tensing was said to be wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting and it recorded the incident. The Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office said it plans to release the body cam footage of the incident but did not confirm when.
Activists even became more agitated when a few police officials, including the city’s police chief who have seen the video footage, said the video is very disturbing.
“It’s not good. The video is not good. I think the city manager has said that also publicly. I’ll leave it there,” Cincinnati Police Chief, Jeffrey Blackwell said.
Chief Blackwell also added that he feared there could be a repeat of the chaos the city witnessed in 2001, when a local police officer killed a man named Timothy Thomas.
“We’re concerned clearly. We’re concerned about what could happen in our city. We’re hopeful that the people of this great city are reminded that we do things right and that even when an officer may have done something inappropriate that it will be dealt with in an appropriate fashion,” Blackwell added.
The family pastor, Ennis Tait of the Church of the Living God, in charge of the funeral service of the late Dubose also shared the concern of Chief Blackwell. He said the Dubose family is calling for justice without violence. He was quoted as saying, “To quote the family, ‘We don’t want another Timothy Thomas situation. They’ve said that and that’s their heart. They don’t want the city to be turned upside down and that issue to be attached to their brother’s life.’”
A statement released by the University of Cincinnati concerning the killing also said administrators had met with members of the City Manager’s Advisory Board, “to hear their thoughts and perspectives about how best to move forward together in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration.”
Although the city’s prosecutor office had said it would release the footage of the incident to the public, chief prosecutor in charge of the office, Joe Deters, flatly stated that he would not do so without a court order or until he has presented the case to a grand jury.
“Unless I’m ordered to by the Ohio Supreme Court, and I doubt I will be, they’re not going to get it,” Deters said.
But local media in the Cincinnati area say they are determined to use all legitimate means to force the office of the prosecutor to release the footage so that all the debates about the incident will be clear to everybody.
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ok , lets get to marching, and shouting ,. since that all Black people in this country ever do,.. nothing ever going to change. The police know black leaders and the black people of this country are not going to do a damn thing. So they will kill as many as they please and anytime they please. I even heard a cop say its the best way to get a paid vacation,. I’ll shoot and kill a nigger. and my family and I will go on a paid vacation. Think its called suspended with pay. White America is just going to stand by and say KILL THEM ALL.
Firstly: You’re an idiot.
Secondly: What you are describing is genocide, and America is very… very far from it. You have a classic case of an uneducated man, with racist ideals, taking out his own personal issues, on (what seems to be) an innocent man. And that’s what’s creating all these brutal racist cops.