Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured last month.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    -9•6 months ago

    Maybe some type of weapon that, if used correctly, can immobilise or incapacitate someone without doing any lasting harm?

    • Flying Squid
      9•6 months ago

      Ah yes, this imaginary weapon that will always be used correctly and never on anyone with a heart condition or anything like that.

      I don’t know how cops even survived before “non-lethal” weapons were invented. I guess they just shot every criminal every time. Either that, or it was just cop murder constantly. I don’t even know how there were any cops.

        • Flying Squid
          2•6 months ago

          You mean they had to get close to a criminal? They had to actually be brave and take risks?

          • @[email protected]
            0•6 months ago

            Police still do carry batons, by the way. It’s much easier to do that when the other guy doesn’t have a weapon, of course.

            I’m honestly not sure what your point is here, police can and do use pepper spray and tasers quite often, but not when the person they’re approaching is likely to have a firearm.