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Bill Rinehart / WVXU The police shooting of Black men — culminating with the death of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas — sparked days of civil unrest in Cincinnati in 2001. Protests, in some cases, turned destructive. More than 800 people were arrested for violating a curfew imposed by the mayor. An economic boycott put a financial dent in Downtown events. This all happened two decades ago after Thomas was shot and killed while running from police. He was wanted for several nonviolent misdemeanors, most of which were traffic citations, reports say. But the narrative of what happened to Th...

Tom Uhlman / AP Some people think the tensions between Cincinnati's Black community and the city's 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 been stewing for years and led to six days and nights of civil unrest that gripped the city in fea...

Tom Uhlman / AP It was 20 years ago that Cincinnati captured the attention of the nation and the world after the killing of a 19-year-old at the hands of police. Timothy Thomas was the 15th Black citizen killed by police since 1995 and tension boiled over into the streets. All this week, we revisit the 2001 Cincinnati civil unrest, ask questions of the people who were there and examine how the events of those days in April changed our city and brought about policing reforms that have served as a national model. Joining Cincinnati Edition are Terry Thomas, younger brother to Timothy Thom...

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CROWN POINT — Defense attorneys questioned the wife of a slain Navy veteran Thursday about secret recordings she made of phone calls between herself and her best friend, a witness to her husband’s homicide. Jessika Lile said she made the recordings after learning her friend, Angela Gauler, initially told Lake County sheriff's police she saw defendant Timothy R. Thomas and Nicholas Lile in a "physical altercation" seconds before Thomas fatally shot Nicholas Lile. Thomas, 40, of Highland, arrived at the Liles' Lowell-area home late Jan. 2 to have drinks with them and Gauler, who had b...