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

    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.