He had a car. Not unarmed.
IMAX?
I honestly can’t tell what is going on at the critical and following moments in that/those videos.
Tensing should get the death penalty.
This was a University of Cincinnati policeman. He had dropped out of the Ohio Highway Patrol after one day. The officer stopped the victim off campus for not having a front license plate. This was not his first incident off campus.
Joe Deters, the Hamilton County Prosecutor, is a very fair and conservative person. Mr. Deters is leading the prosecution himself because he claims the officer’s actions were despicable and pure and simple murder. Mr. Deters has a long history of being extremely tough on crime.
This is another case in which the facts are not relevant. The video can be edited anyway either side wants in order to get the results they need.
There are four words that explain why the city/county will prosecute, convict and jail the former police officer. and probably fire the other tow cops who witnessed the incident.
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I call it, “Collateral Damage in the interest of Public Safety”
It LOOKS like the cops did the typical CYA and were so stupid that they forgot that video now exists. People have gotten fed up with the cops lying about stuff for awhile and they have NO GOODWILL left. none.
Some are great but unfortunately there is a large minority that are watching too much “tough cop” shows on TV and movies, so that they have to be “kicking ass” when a lot of times a firm but calm mature person can defuse a situation. I’ve seen a cop show the most patience with a verbally abusive POS and basically gave the perp the choice to go to jail or behave, he chose jail and wasn’t shot but also wasn’t allowed to hurt anybody , because the cop had the presence of mind to have back up and handled the man as he said he would.
I’ve also seen where cops have to subdue someone and I’m glad I’m not a cop because I believe that I’d of lost my cool and hurt someone.
Can we just say that the two cops lied to protect their buddy and that the initial cop shot the man in the head for a traffic violation?
It looked like the guy was taking his seat belt off when the shot was fired and then he drove off. If I saw that correctly-— this was a trigger happy cop.
Tensing went down. He had his hand/partial arm in car grabbing the steering wheel.
Perp took off, Tenging fired as he was falling.
IMO the worst charge should be a lesser manslaughter.
BTW, what is the common thread running through these officer involved shootings?
Resisting arrest. Just do what the officer tells you and get over it.
The woman last week would likely gotten a ticket if she had just kept her mouth shut but noooooo, she has to piss off the officer, resist . Try to exercise her status as a special segment of society.
And to be clear, I think the choked out guy in NY selling singles was waaay over the top and the officers should be prosecuted.
but were later dismissed as false by the county prosecutor who charged Tensing with murder.
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Dismissed by an adversarial prosecutor, but not by a court of justice.
It’s a fact that the car engine was running and in gear, after the officer told the driver to remove his belt and get out of the car. The officer yelled “stop” before shooting, and went to the hospital to get his right arm treated.
I haven’t followed this much, but up here in Dayton and in the Cincy area, Deters (the prosecutor) has a very good rep for supporting cops. My guess is that for him to bring this, it’s real.