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Tensing, through union, demands his UC job back
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...back/30932331/The union representing the University of Cincinnati police force has filed a grievance on behalf of Raymond Tensing demanding that he get his job back as an officer because the university fired him this week without due process, a union official said Friday.
Thomas Fehr, representative of the Fraternal Order of Police-Ohio Labor Council, said the union filed the grievance Thursday, the same day Tensing was arraigned on murder charges in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
Tensing is accused of killing motorist Sam DuBose July 19 in Mount Auburn. Tensing had stopped DuBose because his car did not have a front license plate. As DuBose turns his ignition key, starting the car, Tensing pulled out his service weapon and fired. Tensing was wearing a body camera that captured the exchange.
On Wednesday, Tensing was indicted on murder charges, and the university fired him from the police force. The FOP represents the members of the force, and Fehr said the university did not abide by its three-year contract with the union in dismissing Tensing.
“We filed the grievance, No. 1 because there was no just cause, and No. 2 because he was not afforded his due process rights under the contract,” Fehr said.
Friday, university spokeswoman Michele Ralston said: "The university stands by its decision to terminate Officer Ray Tensing."
The grievance said, "Officer Tensing was terminated on 7/29/2015 without just cause for an on-duty fatal shooting. While Officer Tensing was indicted on a charge of murder, the indictment is not a conviction. Officer Tensing was also denied his due process rights of a pre-disciplinary hearing under the contract."
The grievance asked for Tensing to be reinstated immediately and "is to be made whole for all back pay and benefits including but not limited to sick time, vacation time, holidays, shift differential, pension contributions etc. afforded under the current contract."
Under the contract, the university has seven calendar days – or until Aug. 6 – to hold a hearing. Fehr said that at the hearing, the university could either restore Tensing in his job or decline, then the case would go to arbitration. That process could take four to six months to conduct.
“The contract language says that if you’re going to discipline an employee for anything that involves loss of pay, suspension, demotion or termination, the university is required to have a pre-disciplinary conference with the employee. That was not done,” Fehr said. “They are also required to give the employee a copy of the formal charges, and that was not done. They just fired him and didn’t follow due process.”
Fehr said that Tensing was notified that the union was filing the grievance on his behalf. “He wanted it done,” Fehr said.
Bet you bigger percent than you think are saying "Bad cop, but at least this thug is dead."
Bet you a large percent of cops don't realize they are this guy.
http://news.yahoo.com/coroner-ohio-m...205256849.htmlCoroner: Ohio motorist shot by officer had fragrance bottle
CINCINNATI (AP) — A bottle held up by a motorist during a traffic stop before he was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer apparently contained a fragrance, not alcohol, a coroner said Monday.
Hamilton County coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco said in a statement that lab analysis found compounds consistent with those commonly found in air fresheners or perfumes.
UC police had said after the July 19 shooting of Samuel DuBose that he produced a bottle of alcohol during the traffic stop. A police body camera video released last week showed the bottle he picked up from his car floor appeared to be labeled as gin. Officer Ray Tensing had asked about the bottle while questioning DuBose after stopping him for not having a front license plate.
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so the dead guy wasn't even on University grounds...
geez...these $#@!ers are like rogue white sharks...
Top Cincinnati university cop urged aggressive traffic stops: report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-cinci...013.html?nhp=1(Reuters) - The former chief of the University of Cincinnati police force encouraged aggressive use of traffic stops to look for guns and drugs, according to a report by a consultant reviewing the department after a white officer shot and killed an unarmed black man during a traffic stop last year.
Former University of Cincinnati Police Chief Jason Goodrich, who resigned in February amid an internal review, pushed the department's officers to make more traffic stops, according to the report by consulting firm Exiger released this week.
Goodrich and the department's No. 2 official, Major Tim Thornton, who also resigned, said they were unaware of the reason for the surge in traffic stops, the review said.
Goodrich and Thornton could not immediately be reached for comment.
The officers' resignations came during the review of an off-campus traffic stop last July 19 during which former officer Raymond Tensing shot and killed Samuel DuBose.
Tensing claimed he was being dragged by DuBose's car during an attempted escape but Tensing’s body camera footage as well as an investigation concluded the car was barely moving, if at all, when Tensing fired.
A grand jury later indicted Tensing for murder. He pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bond. His trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 24.
Police use of lethal force, especially by white officers against unarmed African-Americans and other minorities, has been the focus of nationwide protests and the killing of DuBose also fueled demonstrations.
An independent report on DuBose's shooting released last September called it "entirely preventable."
Robin Engel, the university's vice president for safety and reform, said on Friday that traffic stops can be an effective policing tool but only when used with proper oversight and data review.
Exiger said Goodrich and Thornton were untruthful with both Exiger and the university administration, "misrepresenting their knowledge as to significant increased use of off-campus traffic stops by UCPD officers during the chief’s tenure.
"It was clear that Chief Goodrich embraced the aggressive use of such stops as part of his policing philosophy," Exiger added.
Exiger found traffic stops and traffic citations increased by almost 400 percent after Goodrich took over as chief in November 2014.
It said traffic stops prior to Goodrich's arrival averaged about 86 a month but then hit about 271 a month. In the two months before DuBose's death, stops and citations were at all-time average highs of 412 and 392, respectively.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-jury...29.html?ref=gsOhio jury deadlocks in racially charged murder trial of ex-cop
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Jurors in the trial of a white former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murdering a black man during a traffic stop told the judge their deliberations had deadlocked on Friday but were ordered to redouble efforts at reaching a unanimous verdict.
The 12 panelists were sent back to the jury room by judge Megan Shanahan at around 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT) after telling her they had failed, since beginning deliberations on Wednesday, to agree on whether former officer Ray Tensing was guilty or not guilty of murder or voluntary manslaughter.
At around 6 p.m. EST jurors remained at an impasse and were dismissed by Shanahan for the night. Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberations again on Saturday morning.
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