Ohio cop was wearing Confederate flag under uniform when he killed unarmed black man
The former University of Cincinnati police officer had a little something extra underneath his uniform.
Ray Tensing was charged with murder in the July 19, 2015, shooting death of Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop.
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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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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.