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Evidence: Officer was wearing Confederate flag T-shirt

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CORRECTS FIRST NAME TO GRANT, NOT GREG FREDERICKS - A photograph of a video monitor shows Ray Tensing's bodycam footage at 0.113 seconds before he shot and killed Sam DuBose as Grant Fredericks, of Forensic Video Solutions, testifies on the second day of witness testimony in the courtroom of Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan at the Hamilton County Courthouse, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cincinnati. The now former University of Cincinnati police officer is charged with fatally shooting Sam DuBose during a routine traffic stop in July 2015. (Cara Owsley/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier reads over the transcript of Cincinnati Police interviewing Ray Tensing in the courtroom of Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan at the Hamilton County Courthouse, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cincinnati. Tensing, a former University of Cincinnati police officer, is charged with fatally shooting Sam DuBose during a routine traffic stop in July 2015. (Cara Owsley/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan reads a transcript while the video interview between Cincinnati Police Dept. Sgt. Shannon Heine and Ray Tensing plays at the Hamilton County Courthouse, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cincinnati. Tensing, a former University of Cincinnati police officer, is charged with fatally shooting Sam DuBose during a routine traffic stop in July 2015. (Cara Owsley/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, Pool) (The Associated Press)

Evidence shows that a white University of Cincinnati police officer was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a Confederate flag on it when he fatally shot an unarmed black man last year.

A photo of the black T-shirt with the flag and the words "Great Smoky Mountains" was presented during a crime scene technician's testimony Friday at the trial of since-fired Officer Ray Tensing.

Tensing contends he was dragged by the car driven by victim Sam DuBose. A prosecution expert witness says Tensing's body camera video of the shooting contradicts his argument.

A use-of-force expert hired by the prosecution testified DuBose didn't present a threat to Tensing at the time of the shooting.