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.
All the bodycams have been released. There is absolutely no evidence that any of the cops fired before Reed. You can see almost all the cops in the one angle in the article. The rest of the angles don’t show it any different. There is also the angle of the cop who got shot on the other side. It’s clear as day that Reed fired first.
And this was verified by both internal investigations, and external inspector, and includes video evidence from a neighbor’s security camera. Commenter seems to think this article is the only coverage.
I’m all for investigating the rationale for the stop, and major excessive force after the fact, and that’s where focus should be.