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A former University of Cincinnati police officer was wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt under his uniform when he shot and killed an unarmed black man.
Ray Tensing was charged with murder in the July 19, 2015, shooting death of Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop. The former officer claims he shot DuBose in self-defense after the man tried to drag him with his vehicle to flee the traffic stop.
But Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutors showed a frame-by-frame breakdown of body camera evidence that shows Tensing fired his weapon point-blank before the car moved.
Prosecutors introduced the Confederate flag souvenir T-shirt, which read Smoky Mountains 1934, that Tensing was wearing under his uniform, into evidence Friday morning.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/ohio-cop-wearing-confederate-flag-under-his-uniform-when-he-gunned-down-sam-dubose/
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)While that might get laughed out of court some places, who knows in a state where Trump is apparently leadingm
ProfessorGAC
(65,060 posts)A heritage of owning and degrading other human beings in an economic system that could not be sustained without free labor and bondage.
I didn't say it was a good heritage!
They must be so proud.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)right up until they locked him up for bombing a Black church in Birmingham. He too said the flag was about Heritage. To me, such "heritage" became synonymous with hatred and racism.
irisblue
(32,980 posts)No wonder that the county prosecutor himself, Joe Deters (surprisingly R) has been in court himself.
yardwork
(61,630 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)I hope that murderer gets convicted!
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)I've spent a lot of time in KY and a lot of time in Ohio and I've never heard 1/10 of the racist bullshit from the most backwoods Kentuckians that routinely comes from the mouths of middle class white people in Ohio.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)Danascot
(4,690 posts)magic underwear for bigots?