girlfreddyApr 10, 2024

Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop

https://lemmy.ca/post/19101122

Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop - Lemmy.ca

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.

Show threadBoomer Humor DoomergodApr 10, 2024
You’d think with all the shooting they do cops would be better at shooting things. A hundred rounds for one dude? Even if he was an actual threat that’s a huge waste of money. Ammo is expensive.
Show threadIlovethebombApr 10, 2024
He did fire at the police, you know. Pretty sure that counts as an actual threat.
Show threadstringereApr 10, 2024

He fired at a group of dudes in civilian clothes driving regular vehicles telling him they were cops. Guess what more than tripled from 2019 to 2021 and continues? Car jackings and armed car jackings.

They allege this was for a seatbelt. Weapons drawn for a simple traffic stop?

Plainclothes officers, especially, should not be approaching people with a weapon drawn.

Show threadIlovethebomb

civilian clothes driving regular vehicles

The vehicles had lights and sirens, and the officers were wearing body armour that identified them as police.

The idea that he thought this was a carjacking just isn’t feasible.

Apr 10, 2024 at 11:26pmWeb
Show threadrimmedalphaApr 10, 2024
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Show threadIlovethebombApr 11, 2024
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Show threadSoggyApr 11, 2024
Plainclothes police and unmarked cars should not exist (outside of, potentially, planned and warranted sting operations)
Show threadoopy_soupApr 11, 2024
You are literally the only one defending these thugs. Just stop it.
Show threadx0chiApr 11, 2024
Not so feasible that 60 minutes show not so long ago did a episode just about robbers that their method was using police cloths, sirens on their vehicles bought on Amazon… This must be common enough for 60 minutes show to do a piece on it, and I bet people who seen it sure think it’s a thing that is happening. Not that I’m blaming 60 minutes, just saying that it’s common enough for a national tv show to pick on it for a piece.
Show threadFilterItOutApr 11, 2024
Maybe… I still remember the national news piece about D&D being evil, and the national furor over satanic cults existing inside of day cares that had plenty of news coverage. Fearmongering isn’t a new millennium thing, it’s just gotten prolific due to the ease of the internet.