At 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, negotiations were recessed after more than 14 hours in an effort to settle a racial profiling lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati.

        Negotiations will resume March 28.

        At times late Wednesday, the negotiations grew heated and shouts from meeting rooms could be heard in hallways at the Cintas Center on the Xavier University campus, where the negotiations were being held.

        “There's a lot of emotion. The stakes are very high. Folks are feeling the heat,” said Jay Rothman, president of Aria Group, the Yellow Springs-based conflict resolution firm leading settlement talks.

        “We're hoping that the collaborative can be a major piece of the healing,” he said, noting that all sides still hope to meet an April 5 deadline.

        Vice Mayor Alicia Reece, who is filling in for a vacationing mayor Charlie Luken this week, said earlier Wednesday she sat in on part of the settlement talks.

        She said the process is taking longer than expected.

        The city, the American Civil Liberties Union and those representing Cincinnati's African-American community are working to beat the clock as the anniversary of the fatal police shooting that sparked race riots approaches.

        The deadline for a settlement agreement is April 5; Timothy Thomas was shot April 7.

        The process began last March with a court motion by local black activists and the ACLU to certify a little-known racial profiling case as a class action.

        Gregory Korte contributed.

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