There are currently three investigations underway following the death of Ryan Hinton, an 18-year-old shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer during a pursuit . One is being done by CPD’s Homicide Unit, another is an internal investigation within the police department and the third is by the Citizen Complaint Authority (CCA).
Created in 2003 as a result of the city’s Collaborative Agreement after the police shot and killed Timothy Thomas two years prior, the CCA investigates all complaints against the Cincinnati Police Department.
“What we wanted from a community standpoint was another entity to do the investigations, because we felt at that time that we could not get a fair and balanced investigation,” said Iris Roley, who is a part of the Cincinnati Black United Front, one of the organizations that was part of the original agreement…