{"id":71438,"date":"2015-07-22T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71438"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:21:37","slug":"cincinnati-police-kill-43yo-black-man-with-13-kids-60-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71438","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Police Kill 43yo Black Man With 13 Kids, 60 Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/21\/us\/cincinnati-police-shooting\/index.html?sr=fb072115shootsmotorist4pVODtopLink\">FROM CNN<\/a>: Cincinnati police are investigating the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed black man by a University of Cincinnati police officer after a confrontation during a traffic stop Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The dead man, who was shot in the head, was Samuel Dubose, a 43-year-old father of 13 children, according to CNN affiliate WKRC-TV. A CNN records search showed that Dubose had more than 60 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified the officer as Ray Tensing, who has five years\u2019 experience in law enforcement and who has worked for the University of Cincinnati Police Department for more than a year. He is white.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cincinnati police, which is handling the investigation, Tensing saw Dubose driving without a front license plate around 6:30 Sunday evening and tried to pull him over. Police said Dubose continued for about a mile before stopping the car&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tensing asked several times to see Dubose\u2019s driver\u2019s license, Cincinnati police said. Instead, police said, Dubose handed the officer a bottle of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Tensing asked Dubose to step out of the car, at which point a struggle ensued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a struggle at the door with Mr. Dubose in the vehicle and the officer outside the vehicle, and the vehicle sped away,\u201d Cincinnati police Lt. Col. James Whalen told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Dubose then stuck his key back in the ignition and sped away as Tensing fired a single shot, hitting the driver in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Tensing fell to the ground as he fired the shot, bruising his legs and tearing his uniform, Cincinnati police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM CNN: Cincinnati police are investigating the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed black man by a University of Cincinnati police officer after a confrontation during a traffic stop Sunday. The dead man, who was shot in the head, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71439,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71438\/revisions\/71439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}