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.
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.