This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, July 30th, 2015. I'm Caleb Brown.

The shooting of Samuel Dubos at the hands of police officer Ray Tensing in Cincinnati

would have been resolved very differently if not for video from

Tensing's own body camera. Even prosecutors admit that the video made all the

difference. Officer Tensing is now charged with murder.

Matthew Feeney, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, comments.

Start with the official police account of what happened here.

On July 19th, Ray Tensing, who was a police officer with the University of Cincinnati Police Department, pulled over Samuel DeBaz for not having a front license plate.

The whole incident ended with Deboss dead

and Tanzing claiming that Deboss had

dragged him down the road with his car and that he shot Sam de Bois in the head during this incident.

Now, what makes this case interesting is that Tansing was wearing a body camera

throughout this entire incident and the body camera refutes the claim that Tansing

was dragged along the street by the car and Tansing is now facing a murder charge and a voluntary manslaughter

charge. Even the prosecutor in this case says if not for this video this

officer would not only be free he might well be back on the job.

Well the prosecutor used very harsh language when announcing the indictment saying

that the whole incident was asinine, senseless and so unnecessary.

He also added that Tensing should probably never have been a police officer and he also

described the body camera footage as invaluable.

And I think that's right. The whole

incident raises I think two lessons. Number one it shows that even if police

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