Ray Tensing: alive, free, and asking for his job back How to achieve what's posed in the headline? Be a police officer. Only in America could a man do what Officer Ray Tensing did—be filmed blowing a man's head off, be filmed telling at least 21 lies about what led to him blowing said man's head off, be charged with murder, strongly condemned by the prosecutor, and then be free in a few hours to ask for his job back.