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Tense City Council meeting a pivotal moment in 2001 Cincinnati unrest Days after Cincinnati Police officer Steven Roach shot and killed Timothy Thomas, Cincinnati City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee held it’s meeting at City Hall – it would prove to be a pivotal moment. and last updated 2021-04-08 18:24:47-04 Twenty years ago, in the early morning hours of April 7, 2001, Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in an Over-the-R...

On April 7, 2001, according to testimony in Hamilton County Municipal Court: Two off-duty Cincinnati Police officers working late-night security at the Warehouse bar, 1313 Vine St., spotted 19-year-old Timothy Thomas on the street. They knew he was wanted on 14 outstanding warrants, most were traffic offenses. Thomas recognized one of the officers and ran. “I’m chasing a Black man, about 6 feet tall, wearing a red bandana and an Indy 500 jacket," Officer David Damico radioed a dispatcher. ...

This one, however, is complex. This week marks 20 years since 19-year-old Timothy Thomas was killed by Cincinnati Police officer Stephen Roach, an incident that sparked civil unrest in downtown Cincinnati and created urgency around local police reform. Summarizing that day in one sentence does not accurately portray the impact of April 7, 2001. Here we sit, in the midst of police officer Derek Chauvins trial in Minneapolis on charges he killed George Floyd in May 2020. Here we sit, less than ...

Joe Biden White House dismisses possibility of coordinated boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in China Lisa Ferdinando (via U.S. Secretary of Defense) / Wikimedia Commons Thursday, April 8, 2021 9:31 AM UTC Related Stories President Joe Biden and his administration have already been at odds with China on certain issues, including human rights violations. With China hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, White House Press Secretary Jen P...

20 years since the civil unrest, how close is Cincinnati to achieving equity? This mom says not very Its an endless cycle Courtesy of LaVenia Jones and last updated 2021-04-08 05:00:38-04 Twenty years ago, in the early morning hours of April 7, 2001, Cincinnati Police Officer Stephen Roach shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in an Over-the-Rhine alley. Thomas was the 15th Black man killed by police since 1995, and his death sparked days of unrest that highlighted a deep divide between Ci...

Economist Stephen Roach questions Biden’s decision to keep Trump’s China policies CNBC 1 hr ago Yen Nee Lee Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University, said he found it "really curious" that U.S. President Joe Biden has left much of his predecessors policies on China in place. Roach noted that Biden kept the "seriously flawed" phase one trade deal and the tariffs on China even though he reversed many other policies enacted by former President Donald Trump. Roach, wh...

1:01 Mona Jenkins speaks to the crowd as people gather at Washington Park in memorial of Timothy Thomas, who died 20 years ago this month after being shot and killed by then-Cincinnati Police officer, Stephen Roach, which eventually led to city-wide civil unrest for nearly a week. Credit Jason Whitman / WVXU Thomas, a Black man, was 19 years old when he was shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer in 2001. Hed run from police who tried to arrest him for past nonviolent misdemeanors, mostl...

Cincinnati Magazine April 7, 2021 In some aspects, Cincinnati is a very different place than it was two decades ago. But when it comes to race relations, it’s almost exactly the same. Black people living and working here can attest to the structural racial divide that continues to undergird their experiences. Illustration by Kingsley Mebechi Beneath the city’s shiny new buildings, popular restaurants, and everyday wheeling, dealing, and power brokering lie the ashes of April 2001. That’s ...

Tom Uhlman / AP Some people think the tensions between Cincinnatis Black community and the citys 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 ...

2021-03-12 13:35:47 GMT2021-03-12 21:35:47(Beijing Time) Xinhua English NEW YORK, March 12 (Xinhua) -- It is vital to recalibrate U.S.-China relations, which have strained over the last four years, and beware of miscalculation and misperception, experts have said. "The U.S.-China bilateral relationship is undoubtedly the most important relationship between two countries in the first half of the 21st century," Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global...