Furious BLM protesters clash with Chicago cops after video showed Dexter Reed being shot almost 100 times in less than a minute

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 10, 2024 | Bethan Sexton

[Morgana]

Furious BLM activists have clashed with cops outside a Chicago police station after a video was released showing a deadly officer-involved shooting of a black man.

Dexter Reed, 26, was killed during a traffic stop which erupted into a huge shootout also injuring an officer and which cops say Reed started.

On Tuesday, Chicago Police released footage of the March 21 encounter which showed them firing 96 shots at Reed, even as he lay motionless on the ground outside his vehicle.

The aspiring broadcaster's death has reignited conversations around excessive police force against black people, though officers maintain Reed opened fire first.

Shortly after the footage was released, around 100 protesters gathered outside CPD's 11th district, blocking the streets and jostling with police.

'We don't need armed police officers to tell someone to put their seat belt on,' one protester told the crowd in a video captured by Fox.

'Dexter Reed's vehicle had tinted windows, so the argument that they were enforcing seat belt laws doesn't make sense,' another added.

Police said they pulled Reed over in Humboldt Park for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt.

But Andrew Stroth, an attorney for Reed's family, branded the police stop 'unconstitutional', claiming the plainclothes cops did not announce they were police.

Bodycam footage showed a plain clothes tactical unit approaching Reed's SUV and ordering him to roll his window down with their weapons drawn.

Reed is seen resisting orders to roll down his window. Suddenly a volley of shots is heard and the officers immediately return fire.

[linMcHlp]

Referring to the NY Post link . . .

Originally, the driver had the driver side window all the way down, but as the female Chicago police officer approached near to the vehicle, the driver side window was raised half-way up.

After the shooting started, the driver engaged Drive and moved the vehicle forward into the rear of a vehicle a few feet ahead and also along the curb.

Somehow, the soon-to-be-deceased party, exited the vehicle and proceeded to the rear of the vehicle.

Seems to me, that was when a generally second fusilage/hail of bullets were fired toward him/vehicle.

The exiting party fell to the ground at the rear of the vehicle, apparently with a firearm in his right hand . . . and the bulk of his torso landing face down and covering his hand and the firearm.

He was alive when police gathered closer to him, but unable to respond and reveal the firearm.

At 2:33 in the Daily Mail UK video, a police officer is on the ground, and his left wrist is apparently damaged. This [black] police officer had been at the right door of the perp's vehicle, when the shooting started.

At 2:50 in the video, another police officer has a wound or blood spatter to his left upper, inside thigh are, plus a more direct wound to his right upper thigh - he exclaims, "Fu__!" as his comrades help him to lay down.