Final arguments [above in video] were on Monday, June 19, 2017. Jurors returned for a fourth day of deliberations Thursday in the murder retrial of a white University of Cincinnati police officer who shot an unarmed black motorist. [MORE]
Officer Ray Tensing, 27, shot once, hitting 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in the head after stopping him for a missing front license plate on his car in July 2015, a body camera worn by Tensing showed.
Tensing, who is white, was charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter in a retrial of the case. A mistrial was declared last November in the first trial after jurors could not agree on a verdict.
Like the previous trial, the jury is mostly white: Nine whites and 3 African Ameircans (9 women and 3 men). [MORE] His previous jury was composed of 10 whites. [MORE] [Yes nearly all white in a City that is 45% Black. [MORE]]
Tensing fired his gun after DuBose started his car. Tensing stated that DuBose had begun to drive off and that he was being dragged because his arm was caught in the car.
However, prosecutors have clearly demonstrated with footage from Tensing's bodycam that he was not dragged and he was not stuck in the car. A report by a risk-consulting firm hired by the university said that the video showed that Mr. Tensing was not being dragged, that the car had barely moved before the gunshot was fired and that Mr. Tensing had made several critical errors — including drawing his gun and reaching into the car. [MORE]
But what will the white jurors see? [In the presence of Blacks racists cannot see things as they really are. Racism white supremacy is a virus in the mind. [MORE]