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.

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    What patch? The guy in the car was up on illegal weapon charges and illegal carrying a weapon. He didn’t shoot because he didn’t know who they were. He shot because he didn’t want to go back to jail.

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      The one that clearly shows at least one of them wearing a vest that has ‘POLICE’ written on it while they repeatedly tell him to unlock and open the door?

      The one you so ably pointed out. And if our prisons are so bad people would rather die than go back we should probably fix that.

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        Would rather die? He would rather fight than be punished.

        Damn, seeing how you guys twist facts and argue in bad faith really puts things into perspective than me.

        Most of ya’ll are too removed from reality to ever be brought back. These forums are just your containment zones, lol.

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          Nobody in the criminal world thinks they’re going to shoot at police surrounding them and come out alive. He didn’t think he was getting into a fight and then going to prison again.

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            Lol. You speak for all criminals in all instances? Nobody has ever won a shootout with the police?

            I guess that’s what makes you removed from reality, lol. Thanks for proving my point.

            at police surrounding them

            Nice loaded language! It really makes it seem like this guy has a 6 star wanted level rather than being pursued by 2 cops in an unmarked vehicle.

            This is why rational people do not take you seriously.

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              Did you watch the video? It was 4 cops, one to the right front, two to the left front, and one to the left rear. That’s not a scenario in which you successfully shoot your way out. And I didn’t say nobody ever won, I said with the police surrounding them.

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                Great. It’s also not a scenario where a rational person would think they’re fake cops.

                So we can debunk the notion that he was acting in self-defense because he didn’t know they were cops. He’d rather take his chances in a shootout than the guarantee of prison and the cops were justified in killing him.

                It’s funny watching your rhetoric defeat itself.

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                  lmao, you don’t have an argument except to make a declarative statement and act as if it’s the truth. You’re not debunking shit, the military and criminal gangs use the same tactics because they work. That’s not going to tell you it’s the police.

                  Is it really that hard to just have a single uniformed officer and a single properly marked vehicle be there?

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        That doesn’t appear to be a patch. Unless the prison comes with 24 hour massage and blow job service, very few criminals are ever going to want to go to jail. There is no fixing that. Maybe instead of trying to defend someone who would rather shoot at cops than face his illegal actions you could spend that effort teaching people like that not to be like that.

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          Face what actions? Why was he stopped in such an aggressive manner again? A seatbelt?

          And no the choice isn’t torture or blowjob.

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      This is the rational response, but there are plenty of irrational children here whose growth has been stunted by these forums.