Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured last month.

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.

  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    there are people who need to be stopped before they do harm, and the only option is violence

    Cops and kapostanis are not people, dear.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        Sure there are outliers and freaks, and in a society without cops they might still be a problem

        But in a society with cops, you need a microscope to find them in a graph, they’re thoroughly covered by the error bars.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          7 months ago

          What are you talking about? It’s significantly more likely that someone will cause harm to a non-cop than a cop, or that harm will be caused by a non-cop than a cop as well. The way policing works is totally fucked, but there is absolutely a need for something. 99.9% of the time it should be de-escalation, but to pretend like that 0.1% is nothing is so ignorant. You can hate cops and be reasonable.