By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Who knows what would have happened if a University of Cincinnati cop wasn’t wearing a body cam.
But he was, and on Wednesday he was indicted on a murder charge for shooting an unarmed black man in the head during a minor traffic stop, the New York Times reports.
Prosecutors called it “a senseless, asinine shooting.”
The video showed that Officer Ray Tensing was lying when he said he was being dragged by Samuel Dubose’s car.
A grand jury indicted the officer Wednesday on a murder charge, which is punishable by up to life in prison.
“This doesn’t happen in the United States, OK?” The Hamilton County prosecuting attorney, Joseph T. Deters, said. “This might happen in Afghanistan. People don’t get shot for a traffic stop.”
He added: “This office has probably reviewed 100 police shootings, and this is the first time we’ve thought, ‘This is without question a murder,’” he said.
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