POLICE appeared to follow procedure when attempting to subdue a black man who later died, Cincinnati police chief Thomas Streicher said yesterday.

A black man died after being clubbed repeatedly by officers in a videotaped beating that raised new claims of police brutality in Cincinnati, nearly three years after the Ohio city was rocked by riots.

A BLACK man died after being struck repeatedly by Cincinnati police wielding metal nightsticks and the city’s mayor said yesterday a videotape showed that the officers were defending themselves.

A black man died after being struck repeatedly by Cincinnati police wielding metal nightsticks, and the city’s mayor said today a videotape showed that the officers were defending themselves.

Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, said the US economy faces deflationary risks as part of the continued unwinding of the stock market bubble, which includes the possibility of multiple dips back into recession for several years to come.

A white police officer has denied charges in connection with the shooting of an unarmed black man that prompted three nights of race riots in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A white police officer whose shooting of an unarmed black man sparked three nights of devastating riots in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been charged with two offences, including negligent homicide.

The mayor of Cincinnati today relaxed the city’s dusk-to-dawn curfew in response to a calm night following the funeral of a black man whose shooting by police triggered a week of unrest.

Cincinnati’s mayor has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew amid the worst outbreak of racial violence in the Ohio city since the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.