Cincinnati Officer’s Shooting Trial to Begin
The trial of a white police officer whose shooting of an unarmed black man in Cincinnati set off three nights of rioting in April is again focusing the city’s attention on often-strained community-police relations.
Officer Stephen Roach, 27, was indicted in May on misdemeanor charges of negligent homicide and obstruction of official business in the shooting death of Timothy Thomas, 19.
His trial is scheduled to begin today.
Thomas’ death touched off the city’s worst racial violence since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, and prompted a citywide dusk-to-dawn curfew to restore order. Dozens of people were injured and more than 800 were arrested.
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