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.

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    7 months ago

    Did you watch the video? It was 4 cops, one to the right front, two to the left front, and one to the left rear. That’s not a scenario in which you successfully shoot your way out. And I didn’t say nobody ever won, I said with the police surrounding them.

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      7 months ago

      Great. It’s also not a scenario where a rational person would think they’re fake cops.

      So we can debunk the notion that he was acting in self-defense because he didn’t know they were cops. He’d rather take his chances in a shootout than the guarantee of prison and the cops were justified in killing him.

      It’s funny watching your rhetoric defeat itself.

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        7 months ago

        lmao, you don’t have an argument except to make a declarative statement and act as if it’s the truth. You’re not debunking shit, the military and criminal gangs use the same tactics because they work. That’s not going to tell you it’s the police.

        Is it really that hard to just have a single uniformed officer and a single properly marked vehicle be there?