A spokesperson from the university said officers Phillip Kidd and David Lindenschmidt were “placed on paid administrative leave because an internal investigation is now underway”.
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Kidd can be heard on body camera video saying “yes” to another officer’s question on whether he saw Tensing being dragged.
Deters played body camera footage of the traffic stop shooting that appeared to contradict Tensing’s version of what happened.
University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing’s body camera shows driver Samuel Dubose pulled over during a traffic stop in Cincinnati, Ohio July 19, 2015, in a still image. After the suit, he said, the hospital stopped using University of Cincinnati police officers for security on the hospital psychiatric ward. “He wasn’t dealing with someone who was wanted for murder”, Deters said. The judge rejected the defence attorney’s contention that Tensing wasn’t a flight risk.
“He was dragging me”, he said. Mathews entered a not guilty plea for Tensing, who is charged with murder in the killing of 43-year-old motorist Samuel DuBose. “I might not bail him out if he was my own son”.
Based on the contract, the university has until August 6 to hold a hearing at which the university could give Tensing his job back or decline.
The family of Samuel DuBose, 43, urged the community to remain calm, as it has in a series of demonstrations since the July 19 shooting by officer Ray Tensing, who is white.
Kidd and Lindenschmidt would not face charges, according to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters. “I haven’t seen it. What did you pull me over for?”
“It was a senseless, asinine shooting”, Deters said after releasing body cam footage of the traffic stop, which Deters called “a pretty chicken-crap stop”. After being hired by the University of Cincinnati, he continued serving as a part-time officer for the Greenhills police force for eight months.
After the shooting, Tensing claimed that he shot DuBose because he was being dragged by DuBose’s vehicle.
Tensing’s lawyer, Stew Mathews, has said that his client feared that he would be run over, and has called the murder charge “absolutely unwarranted”.
The revelation that officers Weibel and Kidd provided the corroboration for Tensing’s account of the incident was met with anger by Brinson’s family members, who told the Guardian on Thursday that if both officers had been disciplined correctly in 2010, the death of DuBose might have been avoided. “In their official interviews, neither officer said that they had seen Tensing being dragged”.
Tensing, 25, was fired soon after he was indicted.
“The case will be tried and decided in a court”, he said.
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The death DuBose is the latest in a string of controversial shootings where black people got killed by white cops that include Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
