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How Cincinnati CAN became Cincinnati DID 20 years after unrest Unheralded reform panel had lasting impact Kareem Elgazzar | WCPO Posted at 5:00 AM, Apr 09, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-09 05:00:49-04 CINCINNATI — The way the Collaborative Agreement has changed Cincinnati’s policing practices gets all the attention when it comes to the city’s response to the fatal shooting of Timothy Thomas 20 years ago. But an unheralded civic panel formed in the aftermath of Cincinnati’s 2001 racial reckoning also had lasting impact on the region. Cincinnati CAN, which stood for “C...

and last updated 2021-04-07 23:30:30-04 CINCINNATI — April 7, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of the death of Timothy Thomas. His fatal shooting by a Cincinnati Police officer led to civil unrest in the city and – ultimately – the Collaborative Agreement, designed to improve relations between police and the public they serve. A crowd gathered in Washington Park Wednesday night to mark the solemn occasion and ask the question: “What’s changed in the two decades since he died?” “I want to get this story right because history cannot be told by other people,�...

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 Chauvin's trial in Minneapolis on charges he killed George Floyd in May 2020. Here we sit, less than a year removed from protests around the country and in our own community in support of the Black Li...

Editor's note: To mark the 20th anniversary of Timothy Thomas' death and the unrest that followed, The Enquirer asked people to reflect on what's changed, what hasn't and why Cincinnati and other communities continue to struggle with race and policing.  The United States has had a long and violent history of racial conflict between Black communities and police departments.  Black citizens have been forced to live with the burdens of a history of police oppression that has often been denied, mischaracterized and rarely prosecuted. The racist systems of policing are just the tip of the spear...

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. He'd run from police who tried to arrest him for past nonviolent misdemeanors, mostly traffic citations. Officer Stephen Roach and Thomas both ended up in an alleyway near Republic St...