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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    281 year ago

    And people being ambushed generally don’t have time to check if their attackers unmarked vehicle has emergency lights.

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      21 year ago

      You can very clearly see the lights in the video, there’s no way this person didn’t realize they were dealing with police.

      Why else would they have pulled over?

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        81 year ago

        Yeah, we can see the lights from the video’s perspective, that doesn’t prove Dexter saw them. If we’re going off what the video shows, it doesn’t look like they pulled him over, it looks like they boxed him in with their vehicle.

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          61 year ago

          it looks like they boxed him in with their vehicle.

          Yes.

          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.

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            51 year ago

            Because the most prevalent armed gang will kill you if you don’t.

            The real problem is the gang member was out of his colors, so it was impossible to tell which group of murderous thugs was actually involved.

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          21 year ago

          Which is highly illegal.

          Are you trying to say that he would be justified if he saw the lights because he could’ve thought they were fake?

          The cop-hate among ya’ll is insane. Really puts into perspective the kind of person that frequents these forums too much.