Bottle in car of Ohio man shot by police held fragrance: coroner

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

(Reuters) - The coroner investigating the death of Samuel DuBose, who was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer earlier this month, said on Monday that a bottle found in his car marked as gin held fragrance, not an alcoholic beverage.

The substance in the bottle was "consistent with compounds commonly found in fragrance products, such as air fresheners and perfumes," said a statement from the office of Hamilton County Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco.

DuBose was pulled over by police officer Raymond Tensing on July 19 because the vehicle he was driving did not have a front license plate. Footage from Tensing's body camera showed the officer noticed a bottle on the floor of the car. DuBose handed him the bottle, marked as gin, and told him it was air freshener.

About a minute later, the two men struggled after DuBose, 43, refused Tensing's request to step out of the car. Tensing reached into the car with his weapon and fatally shot DuBose in the head.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/bottle-car-ohio-man-shot-police-held-fragrance-000222076.html

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1. dear god

[Stonepounder]

2. Just note that the officer has been indicted for murder and the prosecutor looks like he's really

going after him. Additionally, a Cincinnati City Council committee has passed a bill (today - just heard it on the local 11:00 news tonight) on to the full council to revoke the right of UC police to patrol outside university grounds. Cincinnati has tried very hard to get their police force out of the 'us vs them' mentality and back to the 'protect and serve' mentality. They admit they still have a long way to go, but they really appear to be trying very hard.

[SunSeeker]

3. So much for all those folks who said is was really a DUI stop.

It was a driving while black stop. And murder.