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.
Why are undercover cops pulling over a guy for not wearing a seat belt to begin with? Unfortunately, we’re still waiting for an answer to that.
Isn’t failure to wear seatbelt a secondary offense? I believe you cannot be pulled over for it, only cited for it during a legitimate traffic stop.
Got pulled over in Utah because my adult passenger wasn’t wearing his seatbelt correctly. There was no other pretense for it and there have been ad campaigns making it clear that officers will pull you over for that reason and only that reason.
Depends on the state.
That’s an easy answer, they profiled him as a drug dealer and looked for any pretext to stop him. Instead of doing real police work like developing leads and stopping someone because they have probable cause to believe they’re transporting drugs. But that’s not sexy and adrenaline inducing.
this is a firing squad
“Wear your seatbelt to be safe or we’ll shoot.”
“He’s putting himself in danger! Open fire!”
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Yeah this sounds like an execution.
Thanks for the direct video link! Makes me want to download it for some reason.
Does it have audio for you?
No, strangely enough.
The post description is a bit biased. Reed fired on the officers first. Without that fact, this is terrible. With it, it’s terrible but understandable (to an extent).
You’re not reading, there’s no evidence he shot at all just that there was a gun recovered and a police department who for years ran an illegal blacksite interrogation prison claims he fired first.
Who to believe… who indeed.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said preliminary evidence showed Reed fired first, injuring an officer in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the city’s West Side. Then four officers returned fire, shooting 96 rounds.
Understanding there is no clear footage showing he fired first, and I’m not saying I believe one way or the other, but it will be interesting to see the full set of bodycam footage. OP left this out of the overview.
Preliminary evidence which is officer testimony, they go over this.
Not true. See other responses.
There’s no evidence, they say ballistics, which are collected and determined by whom? The police, is police testimony, I’m sorry you don’t understand the nuances of the language used.
Have you actually read any other article? Let’s pick one of thousands: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-family/
Specifically, COPA is uncertain how the officers could have seen this seatbelt violation given their location relative to [the] vehicle and the dark tints on vehicle windows
Bad.
Body camera footage shows one officer fired at least three shots after Reed fell to the ground, but was still moving.
Real bad.
While the Reed family’s attorneys did not directly address COPA’s assertion that it appears Reed fired first, they suggested he feared for his life when five plainclothes officers surrounded his vehicle pointing weapons. They also said the officers never announced themselves as police during the incident.
Also bad. Read that first sentence a few times. Even the family realizes there are plenty of things wrong with what happened that deserve swift rectification without focusing on the one element there appears to be evidence from.
Do you understand what COPA is? Do you understand they are civilian, and not the police?
Another one: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/us/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-video?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_google
"Review of video footage and initial reports appears to confirm that Mr. Reed fired first, striking the officer and four officers returned fire,” the office [COPA] said.
I’m 100% for reform, but either you’re down the echo chamber and refuse to read, or you’re trolling. Either way this is the last bit of education from me.
Point to one piece of evidence in that story that is not based on testimony.
In fact every quote you’ve provided makes it more clear there is no evidence.
Ed: your source
It was not immediately clear from CNN’s review of bodycam footage who fired first.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) is an independent city agency which has the authority to investigate allegations of police officer misconduct and police shootings.[28] It can make recommendations about disciplinary action and department policy, but cannot take such action itself.[27][29] COPA was created in 2016, replacing the former Independent Police Review Authority.[29]
Tell me, if a lawsuit is successful who pays? The city does! So who has a inherent bias? The city!
You’ve clearly never been to Chicago or pay attention to its policing.
They don’t have 4 agencies and a consent decree because they’re super honest or good at their jobs.
I wish we lived in a world where we could readily believe this statement.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said preliminary evidence showed Reed fired first, injuring an officer in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the city’s West Side.
Rather than assuming that they probably shot their own officer in their excitement.
Pretty sure the cameras that they were wearing caught the first shot being fired.
Also the angle of attack of the shot that hit the officer could point back to where the shot came from.
Still not good enough for our narrative.
Elaborate?
In all, the city spent $295 million to resolve lawsuits alleging more than 1,000 Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct — including false arrest and excessive force — in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, according to WTTW News’ analysis. Through the end of November, the city spent $62.3 million in 2023 to resolve police misconduct lawsuits.
Cost of doing business.
The police don’t care, those lawsuits come out of taxes.
Yup. The city didn’t pay for shit. The citizens of Chicago did. I say make cops pay for lawsuits out of their pension funds. Watch this shit turn around real fast.
Rule 1 with talking to police in a car is always keep both hands on the stearing wheel at all times or keep you hands whare the officer can see them if in passenger or back seat rule 2 is always comply with the officer even if you are in the right and he is wrong take your Battle to the court Room the odds are better and you don’t end up like Swiss cheese cause you reached for some chewing gum and the cop mistakes it for a loaded fire arm
Super cool to need specific rules to not die when interacting with local law enforcement. Totally normal.
Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured
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.
https://abc7chicago.com/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-body-camera-video-copa/14637195/
From the video: The 26 year old was already facing illegal gun charges and if the cops found the gun he’d be going back to jail.
Plainclothes Chicago police officers
At least one clearly had a vest on marked POLICE
It’s very likely they ran the plates, knew he was up on weapons charges, saw him not wearing a seatbelt and used that as a pretence to pull him over. End of the day he was a criminal doing criminal things who shot a cop first.
It seems like one of them was marked, but I can’t tell if that vest had the same text on the front from the video.
End of the day he was a criminal doing criminal things who shot a cop first.
I mostly agree with this, but still, there’s some room to doubt that he knew they were cops.
Doesn’t matter the reason they used he broke rule 1 keep your hands on wheel and rule 2 comply when asked he could of brought that up in court
Doesn’t matter the reason they used
It doesn’t matter, but you’re kind of avoiding the things that matter here. The other texts I highlighted show that he couldn’t have known that they’re actually police officers (I am assuming your rules don’t apply to gangs) so he had no reason (according to this article) to comply.
When you can’t tell that someone is a cop, the “rules” for handling a cop don’t matter to you.
Hard to bring anything up in court when you’re dead. The cops know this.
Fuckin hell Eddie, did they shoot your punctuation too?
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He shot at the cops. They fired back. What’s to understand?
Wow it’s genuinely disturbing that so many people here think attempting murder is an appropriate response to getting pulled over. Yeesh people.
You really shouldn’t be surprised, this place is worse than Reddit in that regard.
You’re free to not be here.
And yet, here I am.
Wow it’s genuinely disturbing that so many people here think a SWAT team of an appropriate response to someone not wearing a seatbelt. Yeesh people.
According to additional information, they were in an unmarked car and not uniformed officers. So for all intents and purposes, a random group of people.
How do you expect someone to react to a seemingly random group of people approaching a vehicle and demanding they get out? Sounds like self defense in that context.
We need all the information, with body cam video. Police have lied about these situations before to protect their shitty decisions. Their report cannot be trusted by itself.
Unmarked cars generally have lights though.
And people being ambushed generally don’t have time to check if their attackers unmarked vehicle has emergency lights.
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?
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.
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.
You really are grasping at straws here.
You can buy those lights online, btw, Dr Strangelove
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.
…so is shooting someone.
Which is highly illegal.
Better tell the criminals, they wouldn’t want to break the law.
The cop-hate among ya’ll is insane.
Let’s have a quick reality check here:
What was the crime?
How many police were involved?
How armed were the police?
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Bye Felisha.
You didn’t answer the question. Why would the guy have pulled over?
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.
You mean like the bodycam video that it’s in the article? 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? and after being told multiple times to unlock and open the door, saying he will, so the cops on the drivers side all back off to let him out and then he starts blasting at the one on the passenger side?
There was absolutely no confusion at the point when he started shooting that they were cops.
You can buy those patches on Etsy. Get a police car, get someone in their actual uniform. They’re the one that engages the driver with commands. Not this mob style shit they’re doing.
Wow. I think it’d be hilarious to see you in court claiming you shot at a police officer because you thought they were fake. Bonus points if you mention etsy.
I guess if they actually were fake, you’d have a point. Kind of like when cops shoot at people who they think are armed.
It’s not winning a court case we’re worried about. It’s not knowing it’s the police and getting killed because you thought you were being attacked.
The police have a duty to protect and that should include how they conduct themselves.
The police have a duty to protect
No they don’t.
It’s not knowing it’s the police and getting killed because you thought you were being attacked.
This guy clearly knew they were police, which is why you see so many apologists claiming that you can buy fake cop things online. They legitimately think that’s a rational belief; assume the people pursuing criminals aren’t actually police.
I’m glad the real world is a bit more rational than what goes on here.
If they don’t have a duty to protect then they’re just a well funded gang and they should be disbanded; by force if necessary. And if the world is so high minded and rational why are there so many stories of criminals disguising themselves as cops?
These are police vehicles, with lights and sirens, you can see them in the video. That’s not easy to fake.
They’re unmarked, any lights and sirens are low profile stuff in the grille or passenger compartment. And yeah you can buy them.
And you get in a massive amount of shit if you have them on your vehicle, too.
Yeah, but that hasn’t stopped people. That’s why it’s important for police to not blur the line. Even one actual police car with one officer in their full uniform would remove the ambiguity.
You apparently get in a massive amount of shit of caught without your seatbelt too, yet here we are.
What patch? The guy in the car was up on illegal weapon charges and illegal carrying a weapon. He didn’t shoot because he didn’t know who they were. He shot because he didn’t want to go back to jail.
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.
That doesn’t appear to be a patch. Unless the prison comes with 24 hour massage and blow job service, very few criminals are ever going to want to go to jail. There is no fixing that. Maybe instead of trying to defend someone who would rather shoot at cops than face his illegal actions you could spend that effort teaching people like that not to be like that.
Face what actions? Why was he stopped in such an aggressive manner again? A seatbelt?
And no the choice isn’t torture or blowjob.
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.
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.
This is the rational response, but there are plenty of irrational children here whose growth has been stunted by these forums.
In Humboldt Park which has had car jackings more than triple for the last few years.
Random people? Unmarked cars put on lights to pull people over
The other day a car that was very obviously not a cop lit up some lights and ran a red light I was stopped at. Turns out you can just buy lights.
True. So…you’d start shooting too?
It’s hard to say how you’d react when you’re surrounded by seemingly random guys “shouting profanities” at you, pointing weapons. The cops almost certainly escalated the situation completely unnecessarily. As they are wont to do. If you read the article, it very much sounds that way.
Their excuse is he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. It isn’t clear how the situation went this way, but they apparently didn’t announce themselves as police, and when he rolled the window up they pulled their guns and shouted at him.
Tell me how you’d react.
And tell me honestly what you think would be more dangerous: a bunch of cops escalating this exact situation, or car jackers trying to force him out of the car? Honestly, it seems like the situation with the cops is more dangerous.
I don’t believe you, but okay.
Putting spotlights or emergency lights on your car is highly illegal.
So because something is illegal nobody does it?
It’s definitely a deterrence.
Go ahead, argue you thought they were fake cops in court. See how well that works for you out in the real world.
You’d have point if they were actually fake cops.
Thank god all the laws have deterred people from breaking them. Like drugs, speeding, murder, changing lanes without signaling, running a red light, shoplifting. Those things never happen because theyre illegal! Why didn’t we think of this solution to crime before.
He shot at plain clothes police officers with an unmarked car that didn’t announce themselves as police in the video I saw, but they turned their video on after the encounter started.
Plain clothes officers in an unmarked car with guns drawn on him for a seatbelt violation. How is somebody supposed to differentiate them from any other gang calling themselves “police”?
He shot in self defense. Period.
https://abc7chicago.com/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-body-camera-video-copa/14637195/
More information here, from the video narration:
The 26 year old was already facing illegal gun charges and if the cops found the gun he’d be going back to jail. He didn’t shoot in self defence. He shot because he was a criminal afraid to go back to jail.
When did you gain your psychic powers? I’d like to talk to my dead grandparents.
Clearly you already live in a fantasy world if you think a criminal illegally possessing a weapon simply shot out of ‘self defence’ when faced with returning to jail. No one was running up on him when he shot. They were backing off, clear as day in the video. The mental gymnastics people will go through to defend violent criminals is absolutely sad.
Interesting that someone claiming to know a dead person’s motivations and thoughts accuses me of living in a fantasy world.
We can easily infer from the evidence we have.
I notice that you didn’t accuse the person who claimed he fired in self defence of having psychic powers. Maybe if your bias was so blatant I wouldn’t take everything you said as a giant trolling joke.
“You didn’t say anything to them, therefore what you said to me is not valid” is very poor reasoning.
“Mmm… cop’s boot” (You on the Internet)
We’re talking about trying to murder another human. Stop dehumanising them.
Nearly 100 shots. Cops love shooting people. Stop treating them as anything more than State-sanctioned deviants.
If a bunch of people in plainclothes rushed my car with guns drawn I’d think I was being robbed.
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This comment doesn’t make sense to me. Even if he did think he was being robbed, he’s outnumbered four to one, and they already have guns drawn.
Opening fire isn’t a winning strategy even then.
So police can act with the professionalism of criminal organizations, got it
I’m curious how you reached that conclusion?
Because you’re saying they can behave the same way without facing consequences?
When did I say that?
I have a feeling you’re playing dumb for engagement, because truly no one can be as clueless as this. I suspect everyone else feels the same which is why your question is being ignored. Most of your post history is similarly unaware. There will be no further reply.
Didn’t answer the question, of course.
No, they are not capable of that level of coordination discretion rationality discipline or community ties.
Of course. All cops are criminals. Every single cop has at bare minimum been an accomplice and an assaultant. Most are also thieves, murderers, and/or rapists.
You wanna know who’s trafficking kids? Who’s bringing in the day’s big moral panic drug? Who’s selling illegal guns?
Always the cops. Literally every time.
I said nothing about pulling a gun nor firing. Only what I would think if a bunch of people ran up with guns.
And we’re going to ignore the context of the article you’re commenting on?
I don’t have any idea what you’re trying to say, but whatever it is, I imagine we’ll disagree.
is laying down to let them shoot and rob you the winning strategy?
Between that and dying, it’s the better of the two.
You mean like Charles Kinsey?
being shot often entails dying.
I didn’t say otherwise?
shoot and
Hey, take it up with the person who laid out the idiotic scenario.
Its taking the bastards with you. Or trying to take one at least. A last heroic act is worth a salute at least, if he actually did draw first, or even had a gun.
Are you genuinely describing shooting at police as “heroic”?
Yikes.
Anything that gives us one less cop gives us a better world.
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So your rebuttal is to suggest that they’re violent thugs who kill at the slightest provocation and have no regard for human life or ability to talk shit out?
Supporting my point?
They really didn’t think that reply through, did they?
You seem to have gathered that the murder victim shot at the police. Unless you have another source, you are clearly not reading the linked article. It states that no footage shows that the victim ever shot, or had a gun in possession. States that he had no gun on or around him when they cleared the slumped body. The did however find a (most likely planted) gun in the car later. Do you need a class on reading comprehension or something?
Do you see the right hand window blow out, right before shit hits the fan?
What do you think could have caused that?
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.
Not expensive enough. As the Chris Rock joke goes, maybe if bullets cost $10k per round we wouldn’t have so much needless gun violence.
Unlimited budgets, they can’t care.
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Ammo is expensive.
Legit peanuts compared to what police departments actually spend their budgets on.
9mm rounds cost ~$0.08 (less if you buy in bulk, which these departments most likely do) That means 100 rounds to kill this guy was about $8.
They spend more on ammunition for target practice.
I’m sorry, I know you hate cops but this is just an absurd angle to criticize them over. I know you won’t realize this though :(
You can see what they said when you hit the reply button, even though the comment was deleted.
I know this isn’t the point, but I thought ammo was much cheaper than that.
50cal is in the dollars per round for certain types of ammunition, less than ten cents a bang is bloody cheap.
It once was, before gun companies and ammo manufacturers realized they could squeeze fud for all he’s worth if they rant (through means such as the NRA) that someone is coming for your guns. Eight cents for 9mm is pre-craze prices. I think the last bulk buy I saw was more in the $0.15 range. .223 has also doubled, in my experience. .22lr went through the roof. It was once $20 for 500 rounds. Now I saw 200 for $30. The only ammo I can think of that hasn’t changed greatly is shotgun shells.
9mm is currently like $0.22 per in 1000ct, .22lr is around $0.07, .223 is around $0.55.
9mm and .22lr are about 25% higher than pre-craze, .223 has kept the same price as during craze.
TIL, thanks!
He did fire at the police, you know. Pretty sure that counts as an actual threat.
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.
This is exactly why the “defund the police” movement is so popular.
Traffic cops do not need to be armed.
Specially traffic cops on a ego trip thinking they are playing Miami Vice
Traffic stops should also be initiated by marked cruisers. If needed, plainclothes cops can assist, but they shouldn’t be the first contact.
I’m not stopping for an unmarked without being on the phone with 911 to make sure they’re a real cop.
Growing up, we had a string of assaults in a podunk city that was perpetrated buy some guy(s) who bought some blue/red lights and a siren. Hell, for a while even the cops were saying not to stop outside of a well lit area at night…
The problem is cops will shoot you for doing that too.
Well, hopefully getting shot in a well lit area means they can’t suppress the footage like they’ve done so many other times…
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.
Plainclothes police and unmarked cars should not exist (outside of, potentially, planned and warranted sting operations)
Not so feasible that even the 60 minutes show not so long ago did a episode/piece just about a wave of robberies 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.
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.
All of which can be easily purchased online by anyone.
You are literally the only one defending these thugs. Just stop it.
Nearly 100 shots. Either they really suck at hitting targets, or they really like shooting people.
20 rounds in a Glock mag, five officers, basically all five of them put an entire mag into the guy.
I probably would too, if someone was shooting at me.
So you’re telling me that State-condoned violence is managed by people who are not better trained than a rando on the Internet.
You don’t expect a trained soldier to shoot all the rounds when he is being attacked for multiple reasons. For other reasons you should also expect that a trained police officer shoots in the best possible way. All agents firing all the rounds in the mag sounds like panic too me, and if it is then cops should be better trained. One thing is how we civilians would react, another thing is how a professional that has a license to kill acts. And men with license to kill panicking and firing all the rounds sure isn’t professional… so why we admit that can say “oh I’m my case I would do the same.”. They are professionals, they should act professional, they NEED TO BE professional or else shouldn’t carry a arm and a licence to kill.
Have you heard of suppressing fire? Soldiers fire a huge amount of ammunition without hitting anything.
And as other commenters have pointed out, it’s not panic, it’s a strategy, keep firing until the threat is down.
Swirl it a little, slosh it around and swallow it mate. You must like the taste.
Lol.
