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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. A dozen officers joined the chase down streets and alleys. Officer Stephen Roach, driving south on R...

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...

Why does this keep happening? The answer to this question is simple but must be thorough. There are law enforcement officers and elements of the criminal justice system that see Black people as inherently criminal and allow skin color alone to be "evidence" of the proclivity to commit crime. There are law enforcement officers who disrespect the humanity of African Americans. Case in point, Eric Garner in New York City, a grown man accused of selling loose cigarettes in Staten Island who asked officers to "leave him alone!" He becomes the first for us to hear, "I can't breath." There are cit...

Local 12 WKRC If you ask anyone in Cincinnati who lived through the events of 2001 to describe what happened after the officer-involved shooting death of Timothy Thomas, you'll get many different accounts. To some, riots broke out in the streets with days of looting and violence and buildings vandalized. Others saw protesters striving to raise awareness for an injustice, and in doing so, disrupted the typical social order. We would call this civil unrest. Similar protests in the years since 2001, including in Ferguson and Baltimore, have been described as "riots," "uprisings" and "civil unr...