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.
These are police vehicles, with lights and sirens, you can see them in the video. That’s not easy to fake.
They’re unmarked, any lights and sirens are low profile stuff in the grille or passenger compartment. And yeah you can buy them.
And you get in a massive amount of shit if you have them on your vehicle, too.
Yeah, but that hasn’t stopped people. That’s why it’s important for police to not blur the line. Even one actual police car with one officer in their full uniform would remove the ambiguity.
I don’t think it’s realistic this person didn’t know these people were police, if it was a rival gang or dealer etc, they would have simply opened fire on him without trying to get him out of the car.
He knew they were police, and he knew he was in trouble.
Robbers, including ones going after drug money have impersonated police. You don’t know what they want, this isn’t Hollywood where gangs are in a 24/7 war. You don’t even know if he was in a gang.
I’m aware, Al Capone quite famously did it.
It’s pretty unlikely they’d pull a stunt like that in daylight, and in such a public place though.
You apparently get in a massive amount of shit of caught without your seatbelt too, yet here we are.
This wasn’t really about the seatbelt, the police knew what was going to happen. You don’t have four people with guns drawn for that.
“The police knew what would happen when a squad came out of an unmarked car wearing plain clothes brandishing guns…”
Well, they at least hoped.
They had bulletproof vests marked as police, and the car had lights and sirens
I’m seeing one guy with a vest that said “police” and he wasn’t the one at the door.