Cincinnati campus officer shoots and kills unarmed black male

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(08-09-2015, 12:05 PM)michaelsean Wrote: That whole article is akin to saying Ray Tensing has pulled over 1000 people in his career, and guess what he never did before.  Shoot someone in the head.

No.  He never killed anyone.

However, just for background information:


http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/ray-tensing-beaten-in-2010-fight-seemed-like-ticking-time-bomb-attorney-says

Quote:CINCINNATI – After a fight in 2010, Ray Tensing seemed like “a ticking time bomb,” a defense attorney said.

Tensing, the former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder, had been involved in a fight after a party in August of that year. It was just a few weeks after completing his training from the police academy, where he was recognized as an “outstanding student” during the graduation ceremony.

Some words were exchanged about someone’s girlfriend, according to Jay Clark, an attorney who represented one of the men involved. Tensing jumped out of a pickup truck he was in and the fight escalated.

Tensing was “beaten up,” according to Clark. He suffered serious injuries, and called 911.

Ray Tensing after the 2010 fight.

The case proceeded to the legal system. Between the fight and the trial in June of 2011, Tensing conducted his own investigation, using Facebook to find the people involved and supposedly pretending to be someone he wasn’t, according to two attorneys who worked on the case.

“It appears he wasn’t happy with the investigation that the Cincinnati police were doing – didn’t believe that they were aggressive enough or doing enough,” criminal defense attorney Lisa Rabanus said.

Tensing pretended to be someone else and texted a girl from the party, trying to fish for information, according to Rabanus.


In text messages to friends, Tensing mentioned “wishing he had his gun at the scene, and that if he had his gun someone would have been leaving in a body bag,” Rabanus said.

In another text, Tensing was making sure that he met up with another witness before court to go over their stories.

“He definitely was full of attitude and just overboard…even for a victim,” Rabanus said.

In the trial, Tensing was the only witness, according to Clark. After Tensing was questioned by the prosecution, the case was dismissed because of his “investigation.”

At the time, Tensing was applying for law enforcement jobs and he’d participated in the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office explorer program.

Rabanus said she told the head of the explorer program “that he shouldn’t recommend Mr. Tensing for any type of police employment because…he’s a ticking time bomb.”

Still, Tensing landed a job with the Greenhills Police Department. He listed a Hamilton County deputy and the police academy commander among his references.

Police records indicate Tensing once fired a Taser at a man, but apparently never used his gun during his time in Greenhills.

In 2014, Tensing got a new job with the University of Cincinnati Police Department. In the two months before he fatally shot 43-year-old Samuel DuBose during a July 19 traffic stop, Tensing used force four times, including drawing his gun twice during traffic stops.

Tensing’s use of force was deemed “reasonable,” according to police records.

After Tensing killed DuBose, Rabanus said she “just kind of shook (her) head.”

“It’s like what I had feared – my impression of him in fearing that he shouldn’t be a police officer back then, and hoping that he wasn’t hired...had come to fruition.”