Halifax2TheMax said:

Any anti-seatbelt folks on here? You might want to reconsider. Or get yourself a heater. All for not wearing a seatbelt.

Police fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop

Dexter Reed’s mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. “Mom, I’m going for a ride,” he told her, before heading out in the car that he had purchased just three days earlier.

Reed, 26, was killed that same day, when tactical-unit police officers fired 96 bullets at him within 41 seconds, according to Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which investigates allegations of police misconduct and police shootings. “He was just riding around in his car,” Dexter’s mother, Nicole Banks, told Fox 32 Chicago on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. “They killed him.”

COPA released video footage of the shooting Tuesday and said its investigation of the “officers’ use of deadly force” on March 21 remains ongoing. The Chicago Police Department told CNN that it was cooperating with COPA’s investigation and that it “cannot make a determination on this shooting until all the facts are known and this investigation has concluded.” The department did not immediately respond for a request for comment from The Washington Post.

According to COPA, police stopped Reed “for purportedly not wearing a seatbelt.” In several body-cam videos, multiple officers can be seen exiting an unmarked vehicle and surrounding Reed’s car, which had tinted windows.

The officers demand he unlock and open the door, and not to roll up the window.

“Upon stopping Mr. Reed, multiple officers surrounded his vehicle while giving verbal commands. When Mr. Reed did not comply with these commands, officers pointed their firearms at Mr. Reed,” COPA said.

Officers can be seen retreating as they ask Reed to exit the vehicle. Then, shots can be heard.

COPA said its review of the footage and initial reports “appear to confirm that Mr. Reed fired first,” hitting one officer while four others returned fire.

Reed can be seen staggering out of the vehicle before collapsing onto the road. As officers approach his motionless body, they can be heard telling Reed not to move. A pool of blood can be seen on the ground next to Reed as officers place him in handcuffs.

“Ultimately there was an exchange of gunfire which left Mr. Reed dead and an officer shot in the forearm,” COPA said, adding that a gun was recovered from the front passenger seat of Reed’s car.

Andrew M. Stroth, the family’s attorney, said Tuesday that the plainclothes officers “did not announce they were police officers.” The footage shows many officers in plainclothes, with some wearing vests with the word “police” on them.

According to COPA, police continued to shoot at Reed after he left his car and fell to the ground. The agency noted that Reed was “struck by gunfire multiple times and was transported to the hospital and later pronounced deceased.”

Stroth described Reed as a star athlete who “enjoyed playing hoops,” and loved to cook and spend time with his family. He called on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to “disband these tactical units that have been terrorizing communities.”

Johnson said Tuesday that he was aware the footage was “extremely painful and traumatic” and that the officers involved in the fatal shooting have been placed on a 30-day administrative leave.

“As mayor and as a father raising a family, including two Black boys on the west side of Chicago, I am personally devastated to see yet another young Black man lose his life during an interaction with the police,” Johnson said.

Johnson said that he had spoken with Reed’s family over the weekend and that he was committed to a “transparent” investigation.

Stroth called on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to “move swiftly to get justice” for the Reed family and said “the people of Chicago deserve to have awareness and full knowledge of police shootings.”

In a statement Tuesday, Foxx said “it is imperative that we let the investigation takes its course.” “Be assured, our commitment to finding justice for everyone involved is unwavering,” she said.

“If you didn’t stop my nephew, he will be alive today,” Reed’s uncle told CNN on Tuesday.

Reed’s death has once again reignited debate and anger over police brutality and excessive use of force in the United States, prompting protests outside a Chicago police station this week, with activists, residents and family members calling for justice.

There have been at least 9,497 fatal police shootings in the United States since 2015, according to The Post’s database. In the past 12 months, at least 1,116 people have been shot and killed by police.

Police killings of Black Americans including Tyre Nichols, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have prompted protests and a racial reckoning that translated into hundreds of bills aimed at curtailing law enforcement powers and reshaping policing.

“How many more young Black and Brown men need to die before this city will change?” Stroth said.

Dexter Reed shot, killed by Chicago police after traffic stop - The Washington Post

Warning: Video below is graphic

A Chicago traffic stop turned fatal. Here’s what bodycam footage shows | CNN

bootlegger10 said:

Traumatizing footage shows Wyoming wolf's final moments as it lies helplessly in the corner of a packed bar wearing a shock collar before being shot dead out back by hunter who chased it down with snowmobile | Daily Mail Online

Didn't want to start a thread on this, but if I were judge this hunter would be put down.  Probably good I'm not a judge.  What a piece of crap.

'I actually asked my dad to take [me] to the Doctor yesterday but he just gave me some pills and told me to 'Suck it up,"' Ethan texted a friend in April 2021.

'My mom laughed when I told her.'”

Furthermore, "One day before the shooting, Ethan was caught at school looking up bullets to use with the gun and was disciplined. Instead of expressing concern, his mother joked over text, 'lol I’m.not mad. you have to learn not.to.get caught.'”

So, if the article I linked is accurate, seems they simply didn't give a fuck what their kid was going through or was capable of.  I look at it as more than simply not offering "emotional support", but being negligent, especially in giving the little kid a gun.  If the law starts holding negligent parents accountable, I don't see a downside to that. 

tempo_n_groove said:

That wolf story is disgusting.  I won't watch the video.

Let's hope that idiot gets jail time.

mickeyrat said:

4 cops. 96 shots in total. 41 sec. equals 24 each.

I havent found an article with the poster claimed 11 shots fired.

I will expect to hear of gun shot residue findings during autopsy .

would love to know if all 96 are accounted for beyond casings.

the one body cam video linked iin the initial article posted here was after reed was dead at the rear of his vehicle.

this tactical team, is it really their mandate to conduct traffic stops with such a minor infraction precipitating the stop?

if the tint was illegal, why doesnt the city/state crack down on the shops applying illegal tint?

at what point will any agency give clear directive , when more than one officer is on scene ONLY ONE gives commands.

mickeyrat said:

so no source for the 11 shot allegation.