Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday.

Five officers from a tactical unit who were in an unmarked police vehicle surrounded an SUV last month driven by Dexter Reed, allegedly for failing to wear a seatbelt. Video shows the 26-year-old Black man briefly lowering a window and then raising it and refusing to exit the vehicle as more officers arrived, yelled commands and drew weapons.

  • zerog_bandit@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s… Instinct… To shoot at police? I’m sorry but I’d honestly want anyone who’s instinct is to shoot at law enforcement to be executed on the spot.

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      8 months ago

      These weren’t uniformed police.

      If a bunch of plain clothes people charge at me with guns I’m not going to assume they’re police and cooperate.

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      8 months ago

      Call a cop to your house to help your disabled kid? Theyre dead. Call a cop to do anything and some innocent person or dog is going to end up dead. Cops are criminals.

      Makes sense people are going to defend themselves against legal execution gangs.