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.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I never said any of that.

    All I stated was that the summary was crafted in such a way as to not present all the available facts to the readers.

    My understanding is a police officer was shot first, by the driver. None of that was mentioned in the summary.

    Do I believe the police forces throughout the nation have a huge problem that need fixing? Absofuckinglutely.

    But we’re not going to fix things if we don’t look at the whole truth of a situation, and only the partial truth.

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      7 months ago

      But we’re not going to fix things if we don’t look at the whole truth of a situation, and only the partial truth.

      That’s what a summary is tho … simply a portion of the whole.

      The complete story is in the article. Therefore read it first before commenting.

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      7 months ago

      I never said you said those things, I said them. That’s why I used the term imagine. Sorry if you thought I was trying to pick at your words.