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It's Been 20 Years Since The 2001 Civil Unrest In Cincinnati


Tom Uhlman
/ AP
Some people think the tensions between Cincinnati s Black community and the city s police force began on a night in April 2001, when a white police officer chased a 19-year-old Black man into a dark Over-the-Rhine alleyway and killed him with a single shot to the heart.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is the shooting of Timothy Thomas by then-officer Stephen Roach was the lighted match thrown into a highly combustible cauldron of distrust and anger that had been stewing for years and led to six days and nights of civil unrest that gripped the city in fear. ....

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