US cop charged with murder for killing black driver

“We’re prepared as we can be”.

On Wednesday, that officer was officially charged with murder and has been fired for what prosecutors call a “shocking situation”.

The video has been described as so disturbing, a few city officials – including the city manager and the police chief – have anxious that its release could lead to protests or riots.

The university said it would review its policing strategy in the wake of the shooting.

One thing is clear: Dubose never attacks the officer who shoots him in the head, but he does appear to try to cover his face the moment before he is shot.

If Tensing is found guilty, Thomas says prison is not good enough.

“He wasn’t dragging. He fell backwards after he shot him in the head”, Deters said.

Tensings attorney, Stewart Mathews, didnt immediately return phone messages seeking comment after Deters announcement.

“Yes”, he said. “I think he was making an excuse for a purposeful killing” of DuBose, who was unarmed.

DuBose reaches for the ignition, saying: “I didn’t even do nothing”, before attempting to drive away. She says he had no gun, didn’t harm the officer and didn’t deserve to be shot July 19.

Dubose’s mother Audrey quoted the Bible, repeatedly referencing her faith and her gratitude for supporters. The first shows the shooting from Tensing’s body camera.

Tensing surrendered to authorities on Wednesday and has been fired from his job at the University of Cincinnati. Courtesy Hamilton County Prosecutor.

CINCINNATI A University of Cincinnati police officer was indicted on Wednesday on murder charges in the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed black motorist who was stopped because of a missing front license plate.

“I feel so sorry for his family and what they lost, and I feel sorry for the community, too, because we’ve worked so hard to develop great police relationships with the community, and to have this type of a senseless act take place in Cincinnati”.

A warrant was issued for Tensings arrest. He said the shooting by the officer was “totally unwarranted”.

“It was so unnecessary”, Deters said.

Tensing was indicted Wednesday in the July 19 death of 43-year-old Samuel DuBose.

Matthews claims Tensing thought he was going to be dragged under Dubose’s auto and feared for his life.

“I thought it was extremely unprofessional”, he said.

The incident began during a routine traffic stop in which Tensing pulled over Dubose for missing a front license plate on his vehicle.

The family lawyer said he does not believe there would have been an indictment if there hadn’t been video available of Dubose’s interaction with Tensing.

A mourner at Samuel Dubose’s funeral.

The case comes as the United States grapples with heightened racial tensions in the wake of a series of high-profile incidents of African Americans being killed by police in disputed circumstances. DuBose was black; the officer is white. Authorities so far have not focused on race in the death of DuBose.

A body-camera video that Deters played for reporters showed how the traffic stop of Dubose escalated into deadly violence.

The county prosecutor released the footage Wednesday following calls by DuBose’s family to do so.