CNN: What If It Was A Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Shooting At Chicago Police?
CNN is at it again and just in time for riot season!
CNN ran a segment about the Chicago police shooting of Dexter Reed that occurred in March. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) released body camera footage of the incident. Police officers stopped Reed for a seatbelt violation and the video shows Reed immediately did not cooperate.
Reed then shoots, hitting one of the officers. Police start firing back. The investigation found Reed fired 11 times, with officers firing around 96 times. Reed died from the gunshot wounds.
CNN’s Omar Jimenez interviewed Reed’s family members after the body camera footage was released yesterday. Reed’s family says police should not have stopped him in the first place. As has been standard practice for CNN, they took the view of maybe the cops were just wrong, even though they did not shoot until Reed fired first.
“How did a traffic stop for not wearing a seatbelt end with 96 gunshots, an injured officer, and a dead 26-year-old? Some say it was because Dexter Reed fired at officers first, as the initial investigation shows. Some believe the stop never should've happened in the first place,” Jimenez wrote on X.
“The initial response from police here isn't so much what's in question. You get shot at, you shoot back. It's more of why this stop happened in the first place by plainclothes officers and why shots continued as long as they did even when Dexter Reed got out of the car, which at that point he was without the gun. Chicago Police says this is still under investigation as [COPA] recommends relieving ‘four officers of their police powers’ while the investigation is pending,” he added.
“It’s about why this stop happened and why the amount shots continued in the way that they did,” Jimenez said in the report.
If the name Omar Jimenez sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve probably seen his face many times in memes related to a little riot that happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in 2020.
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Trying to turn this guy who shot at police into a martyr is next level absurdity.
That's fantastic. It's a really difficult question why a guy was shot after shooting at police.
Here's how the story of a man shot after shooting at police is covered.
It might seem excessive as to the amount of shots fired, but the training is to shoot until the threat is neutralized. It's never a good idea to point something at an officer, let alone shoot.
Here's a video of what happened in Fargo last summer when the cops were investigating a minor auto accident. It turned out that there was much more to story.
Body camera video shows how Fargo officer ended shooter's rampage on police - Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, East Grand Forks news, weather & sports
Never mind the driver shooting at cops, why was he pulled over? Why do we have a law about wearing seatbelts?
Seatbelts are racist!
I half expect Harris to say that and to point out (similar to the Kinkos fiasco) that fastening seatbelts is too complicated for some.
Q: Why was Reed shot 96 times.
A: The cops ran out of bullets.
This morning the US was a little bit safer.
Reed is not a victim here, he fired at a police office and he fired first -
Yet, I bet his family gets millions from the city.
Of course they will. Just waiting for #1 race baiter the not so Rev Al Sharpton to weigh in on this in favor of the deceased perp and his family!
At 15% fee of what the family gets.
That is only a 1/3 of what Crump is going to get when he shows up to cash in.
Is race not subtext to both the article and comments above?
It would certainly seem so to any typically casual observers...
No, it was about a guy shooting at cops only to find out it was not a good idea
If by casual observer you mean race baiters than maybe.
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Only to a racist.
LOL, you can't make this shit up.
The irony almost made me fall off my chair.
"LOL, you can't make this shit up."
But the hard core liberal left certainly tries to anyway.
No Shit
Bull Shit
Stupid Shit
Didn't know it was a contest but if it was the police won. Did he really think he was going to outshoot several police?
Maybe if Reed had done what he was supposed to (fasten his seatbelt) this all would have been avoided. But he didn't and he went "full retard" and shot at police. He's is no martyr or hero by any means.
Fucking moron who played a stupid game and won a stupid prize is a more accurate description.
Darwinian selection at it's finest!
Shoot at police officers and you will wind up dead. Return fire (if true return fire) is rarely considered an improper act by a police officer.
He managed to shoot one cop in the arm before taking the room temperature challenge.
And subsequently suffered a fatal case of acute lead poisoning.
Suicide by police.
In effect, yes.