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.

  • @Maggoty
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    18 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      08 months ago

      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.