Judge declares HUNG JURY / MISTRIAL in the murder trial of University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing fatally shooting a feral combative offender Samuel DuBose

An Ohio judge declared a mistrial on Saturday, finding jurors hopelessly deadlocked in the case of a white former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black motorist during a traffic stop last year.

The panel of six white men, four white women and two black women began deliberating on Wednesday at the Common Pleas Court in Hamilton County on whether former officer Ray Tensing was guilty of murder or voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose.

On Friday, the jurors told Judge Megan Shanahan they had failed to agree on a verdict. She ordered them to redouble their efforts, listen to one another and reexamine their views.

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