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.
I think I’ve been very clear about my skepticism.
I’m not trusting the cops for shit. Watch the video. If you want skip the talking heads, go to twenty-five seconds in the video on this article. That’s just before the first shots start. You see a cop get shot.
Those were the first shots fired.
Is it curated? Probably. Their pretext is full of shit, no question.
But not who fires the shot. Could be another cop. Could be a randomly passing lunatic. Could be Rahm Emanuel or Chicago Bears punter Trenton Gill for all we know.
You’re acting like a bullet hitting a cop is in itself incontrovertible evidence that their victim shot first. It’s not.
And you’re acting like it’s not evidence at all.
I accept there’s missing information here. Things we don’t know. A lot of this is going to depend heavily on the real reason the cops targeted him. I doubt very much either of us will really know. And I’m very confident they didn’t pick a random black guy.
You seem incapable or unwilling to doubt the narrative you’ve already decided is the Truth™️.
As for who fired the first shot, the cops didn’t go active until after the cop gets shot. The more or less full body cam videos of every cop Are released there. Including the cop that gets shot (arm/wrist. You can see the blood on his left hand.)
Not of anyone in the car shooting, like you keep pretending it is.
Rule number one of everything cops release to the public: if there’s anything significant missing, it’s extremely likely that it’s missing on purpose because it contradicts their narrative.
Does Trenton Gill even have an alibi? 😛
Because they’re trigger happy and murdering people makes them feel powerful, probably.
Proving once again that you’ve learned nothing from previous similar incidents.
Says the one who trusts cops without evidence 🙄
According to cops who have proven no such thing.
And again, I never said I don’t believe that the cop got shot. I just won’t take a notoriously untruthful and manipulative group of people at their word on WHO shot him.