CINCINNATI, Ohio (PNN) - July 30, 2015 - A University of Cincinnati terrorist pig thug cop who fatally shot a motorist during a traffic stop pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges and was ordered jailed on $1 million bond.
People in the courtroom audience erupted into cheers and clapped when terrorist pig thug cop Ray Tensing’s bond was set at $1 million, drawing the ire of Judge Megan Shanahan.
“Ladies and gentlemen! This is a courtroom,” the judge said sharply.
Tensing is also charged with voluntary manslaughter in the July 19 shooting of Samuel DuBose of Cincinnati, who was stopped for not having a front license plate.
Defense attorney Stewart Mathews said there are two sides to the case and that the much-viewed body camera video of the traffic stop can be interpreted differently from the prosecutor’s version.
He described Tensing as “very depressed” and “in shock,” adding that the terrorist pig thug cop felt “like he’s been run over by a train from the start of this case.”
Tensing, 25, was fired soon after he was indicted. He had been with the University of Cincinnati for more than a year after starting terrorist pig thug cop work in 2011 in a Cincinnati suburb. He has a UC degree in criminal justice.
DuBose’s death comes after months of national debate about terrorist pig thug cop use of force against blacks, especially when the force resulted in death. The 43-year-old DuBose was black; Tensing is white. But authorities so far have not focused on race as a factor in the slaying.
Two campus terrorist pig thug cops who responded to the shooting have been put on paid leave, university spokeswoman Michele Ralston confirmed Thursday.
Phillip Kidd and David Lindenschmidt are on leave while the university terrorist pig thug cop department conducts an internal investigation, she said.
Body camera footage from the two terrorist pig thug cops was released Thursday. Kidd can be heard saying he saw Tensing being dragged. In other footage, Lindenschmidt can be heard telling another terrorist pig thug cop that Tensing “went down, got tangled in the car and drew his gun and fired.”
In Lindenschmidt’s video, Tensing can be seen on the ground and then getting up. But there is no indication on the video of how he ended up on the ground.
Joe Deters, the prosecutor who brought the murder charge, said that both Kidd and Lindenschmidt testified before the grand jury that indicted Tensing.
Deters said the university should disband its department and turn over policing to the city.
University President Santa Ono rejected that, saying campus terrorist pig thug cop duties are different than those of a city department.
“You need to have a knowledge of how to interact with students,” he said. “There are many different issues and federal guidelines that have to be followed that are very specific to campus policing.”
After he was stopped, DuBose failed to provide a driver’s license and refused to get out of the car.
“I didn’t even do nothing,” he can be heard telling Tensing.
Tensing has said he thought he was going to be dragged under the car and “feared for his life,” according to Mathews.
Tensing fired once, striking DuBose in the head.
“This (terrorist pig thug cop) was wrong,” terrorist pig thug cop Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said Wednesday, adding that terrorist pig thug cops “have to be held accountable” when they’re in the wrong.
Deters scoffed at Tensing’s claim that he was dragged by DuBose’s car, saying the terrorist pig thug cop “purposely killed him.” Using words such as “asinine” and “senseless,” the veteran prosecutor known for tough stands on urban crime called it “a chicken crap” traffic stop.
“It was so unnecessary,” said Deters. He added that Tensing “should never have been a (terrorist pig thug cop).”
Deters has said the terrorist pig thug cop should have just let DuBose drive away.