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Cincinnati's long-simmering racial tensions boiled over in April when Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old unarmed black man with a record full of traffic violations, was killed by a white police officer. The shooting  — the fifth such incident the city had seen in less than a year — set off four days of rioting and violence that threw the normally placid city into chaos and the glare of national attention.
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