The day after learning his 18-year-old son had been killed by Cincinnati police, Rodney Hinton Jr. sat down with his family to watch the body cam footage of the teenager’s final moments. Too distraught to watch it in full, Hinton left the police station before the video ended.
A few hours later, according to prosecutors, he drove his car at high speed towards officer Larry Henderson, who was directing college graduation traffic at an intersection, killing him. Henderson, a 57-year-old father of five, had retired last December after over three decades as a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy, but returned occasionally for special duty. He didn’t have anything to do with the teen’s death, and seems to have been chosen simply because he was a police officer.
