University of Cincinnati (UC) President Santa Ono was among those pushing for the public release of the body camera footage showing officer Ray Tensing shoot and kill an unarmed motorist during a traffic stop.

Speaking with NBC News, Ono said he does not feel as though campus police officers are not as well trained as city officers. He said UC has a "stringent process" for hiring campus officers, who receive the same training any policeman would go through.

UC fired Tensing shortly after he was indicted on murder charges for shooting and killing Sam Dubose, 43, after stopping him for not having a front license plate.

"I've asked for a full top-to-bottom review of the university police department," Ono told NBC News. "We are fully committed to taking any necessary steps to become a stronger and better police force."

According to the Cincinnati Inquirer, Tensing posted his $1 million bond after turning himself in on Thursday. He is also fighting his termination through his union, the Fraternal Order of Police-Ohio Labor Council.

Tensing stated in his incident report he fired his weapon at Dubose because his arm was caught in the car as the driver began to take off. The body camera footage shows the incident escalating when Tensing reached into Dubose's open window. The camera is jostled around, but Tensing can be seen firing his gun at Dubose's head, killing him with a single shot.

Two other UC officers were at the scene, but do not come into view in Tensing's body camera footage until after the fact. The Hamilton County grand jury declined to press charges against Phillip Kidd and David Lindenschmidt, Reuters reported. Joseph Deters, the county's prosecutor, indicated both were reliable witnesses and supported not filing charges against them.

UC started having its police officers wear body cameras in 2014, a trend spreading at all sorts of police departments in the U.S. Ono and UC made headlines last month for offering full scholarships to the three children of Sonny Kim, a Cincinnati police officer killed in the line of duty.

Part of the funds to be used to subsidize those three scholarships will come directly from the $200,000 annual bonus Ono declined for a third consecutive year.

"There's been a lot of tension in many cities over the last few months and the last year," Ono told NBC News. "I'm very grateful to be in a city such as Cincinnati where the leaders really come together and collaborate. It's really pivotal in this case where the mayor and myself and the clergy and civil leaders came together to focus on working together to move the whole city to a better place."

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