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Article: CRUISER'S VIDEO KEY TO JORG CASE.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2001
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Byline: Kimball Perry Post staff reporter
Minutes after Roger Owensby Jr.'s limp body was thrown into the back seat of a police cruiser Nov. 7, a Cincinnati police officer pulled up in his cruiser and his in-car video camera captured what prosecutors say is a key piece of evidence that will help convict Cincinnati Police Officer Robert ''Blaine'' Jorg of involuntary manslaughter.
''(In that video) you'll see one particular officer appearing agitated with a billy club in his hand . . . saying, 'I had him in a head wrap the entire time.' That was Officer Jorg,'' assistant Hamilton County prosecutor Mark Piepmeier told jurors Tuesday in opening statements. ...