something that is far outside of proper procedure or the law, which is to in effect use lethal force on apparently a fleeing suspect, if he was fleeing, in the context of a traffic stop. people actually can flee police officers and if they re not dangerous and if they haven t committed some kind of serious felony, as the prosecutor said you let them go you don t kill them. we recall the walter scott case where there was, once again, video reflecting that an officer shot somebody who was leaving in the back. same kind of outcome there. that s also charged as a homicide. so i think it s evident that while these are tough cases and while the grand jury can react on probable cause to get a jury conviction to the exclusion of a reasonable doubt where you ve got it on video, you ve got a real case. yeah when you look at motive, obviously this is a complete overreaction to what is a disproportionate response of a
abundance of caution not to demonstrate the entire video that joe deeters explains that tensing pulls his weapon and shoots dubose in the head. so this is an edited version of that as not to be overly graphic. but joe deeters pretty much explains exactly how this case has gone forward and he feels that tensing is a murderer that was acting outside of the jurisdiction of the university of cincinnati. and again, this is a big distinction to make between the cincinnati police department and the officers who were supposed to patrol the university of cincinnati. wes lowry with the washington post is with me kendall coffey, a former federal prosecutor is with me as well. wes, let me start with you. again, out of an abundance of caution and respect for our audience, we re not showing the full image. earlier we had blurred it out on purpose because this was running live out of this press conference in cincinnati and we
speak out. but if you start breaking things and burning things hopefully the cincinnati police and the mayor will come down hard on them. did race play a part in this? did the investigators look at that? you know, i don t know if it did or not. there s no evidence of it. but, you know, as we mentioned when we indicted the people that were at fountain square you know, there was no evidence of ethnic intimidation there. but those are misdemeanors. i mean this guy is facing life in prison. i couldn t care what his motivation was i just know he intentionally killed somebody. joe, it s a two-count indictment with voluntary manslaughter? we backed it up. we backed up the murder charge with a voluntary manslaughter. it s a lesser included offense to murder. and what happens, jeff is
done in this case? you said he reacted just moments before the car started rolling away and the officer fires. what should he have done? he wasn t dealing with someone who was wanted for murder okay he was dealing with someone who didn t have a front license plate. i mean this is in the vernacular a pretty chicken crap stop all right. i could use harsher words. but nonetheless if he s starting to roll away just seriously let him go. i mean you don t have to shoot him in the head. and that s what happened. joe, how long is the videotape? the videotape is about i m going to give you the entire video, so you ll have the entire video with you. i m going to stop it after the shot takes place because there s a lot of stuff after that where the cops are talking about what happened and the defendant says, you know i got my arm stuck and
up momentarily. i want to check in with francis watching social media reaction on this. i know a lot of people have been hitting us up about showing the video in full making sure that we see the exchange. what are you watching? certainly, massive amounts of social media reaction thomas in the past hour ever since that prosecutor took to the stand and the podium there announcing this denouncing this as murder and even more so showing that video live as the press was seeing it there at that press conference, we were seeing it here, as well. even more so when members of sam dubose s family gave such emotional account from his mother, brother and sister. it is amazing to watch this trending over an hour. 28,000 tweets in the united states alone and that is counting with 1 after the other and reverb here on how that s completely spiked up with sam dubose trending as word is spreading about this and also