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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The one that clearly shows at least one of them wearing a vest that has ‘POLICE’ written on it while they repeatedly tell him to unlock and open the door?

The one you so ably pointed out. And if our prisons are so bad people would rather die than go back we should probably fix that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Would rather die? He would rather fight than be punished.

Damn, seeing how you guys twist facts and argue in bad faith really puts things into perspective than me.

Most of ya'll are too removed from reality to ever be brought back. These forums are just your containment zones, lol.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nobody in the criminal world thinks they're going to shoot at police surrounding them and come out alive. He didn't think he was getting into a fight and then going to prison again.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol. You speak for all criminals in all instances? Nobody has ever won a shootout with the police?

I guess that's what makes you removed from reality, lol. Thanks for proving my point.

at police surrounding them

Nice loaded language! It really makes it seem like this guy has a 6 star wanted level rather than being pursued by 2 cops in an unmarked vehicle.

This is why rational people do not take you seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago