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.
They hit people with sticks, that’s how.
You mean they had to get close to a criminal? They had to actually be brave and take risks?
Police still do carry batons, by the way. It’s much easier to do that when the other guy doesn’t have a weapon, of course.
I’m honestly not sure what your point is here, police can and do use pepper spray and tasers quite often, but not when the person they’re approaching is likely to have a firearm.
Seems to me they use their guns a lot of times when the other guy doesn’t have a firearm…
The guy in the video did.
Great, now how about all the other times?