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University of Cincinnati Pays $4.85 Million to Family of Campus Police Shooting Victim
Loaded on March 7, 2016
by Derek Gilna
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Police--Excessive Force,
Excessive Force (Wrongful Death),
Police.
Location:
Ohio.
The University of Cincinnati, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of decedent Samuel DuBose $4.85 million after one of their police officers, Ray Tensing, shot him in the head during a traffic stop for a missing front license plate, on July 19, 2015. The settlement agreement, entered into on ...
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