Jury deliberations to resume in Ohio police shooting trial
Jury deliberations to resume in Ohio police shooting trial
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jurors are set to resume deliberations in the murder trial of a white former police officer who said he feared for his life before fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate in Ohio.
Jurors also have the option of convicting him of voluntary manslaughter, meaning he killed in a fit of rage or sudden passion after being provoked.
"The video is the ultimate witness ... this video exposes Tensing's lies," Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said during closing arguments.
City officials met with civil rights and faith leaders in the weeks before the trial, trying to reduce tensions over a racially charged case that brought demonstrators — including Black Lives Matter activists — outside the courthouse.