Many police officer get
away with murder by lying and cover ups in the police departments all
over this nation. Well Officer Ray Tensing is a liar and dumb one at
that. On Sunday July 19, 2015 around 6:25 p.m. Officer Ray Tensing
killed unarmed Samuel DuBose. After a traffic stop of a missing
front license. In his statement after the murder he said to dispatch,
“I am not injured. I almost got run over by the car. He took off on
me. I discharged one round struck the male in the head."
Tensing's attorney told reporters that his client feared for his
life. He also said he said that the victim, "Turns the car on,
jams it in the drive and mashes the accelerator. He wasn't slowly
pulling away. (Tensing) feared for his life. He thought he was going
to be sucked under the car that was pulling away from him. He thought
he was going to get sucked under and killed." I’m not calling
Ray Tensing a police officer from this point on. He should not have
been a police officer in the first place. He did not know how to
handle himself, with a basic traffic stop. He was wearing a body
camera and he must have forgot that when he decided to lie. The video
told another story all together. Ray Tensing was indicted for the
murder of Samuel DuBose. Now a man has lost his life and for what? It
doesn’t make sense, but this is nothing new. The number of unarmed
African Americans killed by police officers, has been going on for
decades. In the month of January 2015 there were 91 unarmed African
Americans killed by police. What about the countless others that
didn’t get the news coverage. The police lie and cover up, but this
one can’t be covered up. Ray Tensing flat out lied and it was
caught on video. Unlike the Oscar Grant case it was on video, but the
officer in that case got away with it. Police departments and city
officials across this country have to stop trying to protect
officer’s bad behavior. I give props to the City of Cincinnati and
there officials for getting this one right.
LM
