A week ago, Minnesota police Officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of one count of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of intentional discharge of a firearm that endangers safety in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile during a traffic stop previous year.
To convict Tensing of murder, jurors had to find he purposely killed DuBose. DuBose had been pulled over for a missing front license plate.
"God's will is sufficient", Audrey DuBose said as she left the Hamilton County Courthouse Friday afternoon.
The local NAACP chapter says the case is another example that a police officer can "get away with murder" if the victim is black.
A Wisconsin jury earlier this week acquitted Dominique Heaggan-Brown in the killing of Sylville Smith, who was carrying a semi-automatic pistol during a brief foot chase.
Mayor John Cranley said Friday he does not believe motorist Samuel DuBose should have been killed in that situation. He testified he shot DuBose because he feared for his life after his left arm became trapped inside DuBose's moving vehicle on July 19, 2015.
The press conference comes after a second mistrial was declared in the Ray Tensing trial.
DuBose's family said in a statement that they want a new trial and they urged that protests remain peaceful.
Prosecutors argued evidenced showed no threat to Tensing and that he had deliberately chose to reach for his gun.
Ray Tensing shot and killed 43-year-old Sam DuBose after the former pulled DuBose's vehicle over near the University of Cincinnati in July 2015.
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The second murder trial of a white OH policeman who shot a black man during a routine traffic stop ended Friday in a mistrial, just as the first had a year earlier.
Friday's mistrial came after more than 30 hours of deliberations, which started on Monday. Defense Attorney Stew Mathews and Assistant Prosecutor Seth Tieger, right, talk after the jury was dismissed for deliberations during Ray Tensing's retrial at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinn.
Ghiz had rejected a prosecution request late in the trial to allow jurors to consider a lesser charge of reckless homicide, saying prosecutors could have done that after the first mistrial.
The shooting is among those across the nation that have raised attention to how police deal with blacks. In that case, the jury first reported it couldn't reach a verdict on the third day, and a different judge sent them back to continue.
By comparison, the first trial jury consisted of six white women, four white men, and two African-American women. In May, Tulsa police Officer Betty Shelby was acquitted in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man.
Before resuming deliberations, jurors had spent almost 26 hours through Thursday trying to reach a verdict.
Tensing's first trial ended in a hung jury in November, 2016.
Tensing, now 27, lost his job after the shooting and was charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter. Tensing has said through both trials that he feared for his life during the traffic stop. Perhaps the most striking differences were testimony from Cincinnati Police Sgt. Shannon Heine, who testified in the first trial, and defense video expert Scott Roder who did not.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he will not comment until next week, according to WCPO. It restructured its public safety department and made other policing reforms.
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