Killer Pig who shot Samuel DuBose faces murder trial as city braces for protests...
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Picked the wrong/right time to move to Cincinnati.
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These protest gonna turn to something else. We starting to show we can mobilize.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/12/samuel-dubose-police-shooting-mistrial-cincinnati-ohioSamuel DuBose: mistrial declared with jury deadlocked in police shooting case
Ohio jury deliberated for 25 hours in murder trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, who shot Dubose in July 2015
An Ohio judge on Saturday declared a mistrial after a jury said it was deadlocked in the case of a white former police officer charged with murder in the fatal traffic stop shooting of an unarmed black motorist.
The Hamilton County jury had deliberated for 25 hours since Wednesday, following judge Megan Shanahan’s instructions. Twenty-six-year-old University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing shot 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in the head after pulling him over for a missing front license plate on 19 July 2015.
Tensing testified he feared he was going to be killed when DuBose dragged him with his car while trying to drive away. Prosecutors said repeatedly the evidence contradicted Tensing’s story. The jury, of which 10 members were white and two black, was seated on 31 October.
The shooting was one of a number across the country that have raised attention to how police deal with African Americans.
Jurors arrived back at the Hamilton County courthouse on Saturday morning, a day after Shanahan told them twice that they had all the information they needed to reach a verdict.
Tensing was fired from the university police force after the shooting.
The judge’s first instructions on Friday came around noon, when jurors told Shanahan they could not come to a unanimous verdict on murder or voluntary manslaughter charges. The judge advised them to keep working. She did not then grant a request by Tensing’s attorney to declare a mistrial.
Late in the afternoon, Shanahan briefly convened the jury, deflected a question about the definition of arrest and again ordered them back to work. The question related to conditions under which DuBose could have been considered to be evading arrest. The judge said it would be inappropriate for her to answer.
SDMH.. I blame the prosecutors for allowing 10 saltines to sit on that jury.. The trial was basically over after that... -
What happened is the white jury refused to believe their own eyes. They know what they SAW was foul, but in eyes of a bigot the police are always right and black people are inherently wrong so..
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Declared a mistrial. Smh
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He'll be on desk duty smh
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stringer bell wrote: »
Do people know this?
Cause this is a different sort of situation. I thought some wanted to convict and some wanted to declare him innocent. -
Smh.
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But what about police training?
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Told yall
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stringer bell wrote: »
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stringer bell wrote: »
Is that legit???
Yeah, it is.Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters said the jury had been leaning toward acquitting Tensing of murder and convicting him on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, but that they could not agree.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-police-idUSKBN1370F3
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5th Letter wrote: »But what about police training?
You keep saying the stupidest things b.
Would police training have prevented this? I don't know. Possibly not. But that does not mean that police training could not prevent any killings.
I asked you before, but you didn't answer. Why are the rates of police killings so vastly different in different states? It is plausible to think that police training is a factor. -
So they all agree that hes guilty but cant decide on which charge??? Get the ? outta here dont tell me hes gonna walk because they cant agree on that ? !
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So they all agree that hes guilty but cant decide on which charge??? Get the ? outta here dont tell me hes gonna walk because they cant agree on that ? !
Yeah, it would be ? up if he did walk. They can retry him though. To me, this should be a foregone conclusion (that they will retry him). -
You ? are going to be extremely mad when Dylan roof gets off just like this
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ghostdog56 wrote: »You ? are going to be extremely mad when Dylan roof gets off just like this
That's an idiotic example -
Ghostdenithegawd wrote: »ghostdog56 wrote: »You ? are going to be extremely mad when Dylan roof gets off just like this
That's an idiotic example
How so? If he doesn't plead guilty it will either be an acquittal or a hung jury
