Posted on 01/22/2015 4:30:46 AM PST by servo1969
In the video, the mood changes in a flash when Days tells his partner about the gun and starts yelling, "Show me your hands!" The driver, Leroy Tutt, raises his hands immediately. Reid does not at first.
Days, still yelling, reaches into the car and appears to remove a gun.
"I'm going to shoot you," Days shouts, at one point addressing Reid by his first name. "You're going to be f---ing dead. If you reach for something, you're going to be f---ing dead."
Days tells his partner, "He's reaching for something."
Faintly on the video, Reid can be heard telling the officer, "I ain't doing nothing. I'm not reaching for nothing, bro. I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing."
Then one of the men in the car tells the officer, "I'm getting out and getting on the ground."
The officer again orders Reid not to move. Seconds later, Reid emerges from the car, raising his hands, which appear to be empty. Both officers fire immediately, shooting at least six rounds.
Bystanders start yelling at the officers, and other emergency vehicles arrive.
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At that point, both officers have taken out their guns and pointed it at both occupants. That is a high level of threat, just under shooting someone.
The officer shoots the passenger as the occupant tries to exit the vehicle, which might be bad news for the cop. Especially since he told him he was going to kill him if he moves.
“Bad cop. Bad shoot. He’s going to jail for this one.”
Post me when he does. I won’t be holding my breath.
Doesn't look like his hands and arms were raised up when he got out of the car. Looks like they were were perpendicular or slightly above perpendicular to the ground.
That's a pretty dangerous position especially if the cop thought he may have had a gun.
I can’t help but wonder how this would have turned out if it was a single officer stop and the passenger did indeed have a gun and was willing to use it.
The cop goes to jail on this one.
Big question: what about the innocent mostly law-abiding citizen who is stopped for a violation and panics and doesn’t know what the **** to do? Doesn’t know that the cop is ready to shoot. Doesn’t know that in today’s world you are assumed dangerous. Has never been in a situation like that.
The cop can always say “I thought he was reaching for a gun.”
What the **** has this country come to?
I guess. Second guessing as we both are now. What did the cop see? What did he think he saw. My main question amidst the others I have about the reporting is WHY was the initial report to the passenger side of the car? What prompted that? It is my impression that when a stop is made, the first officer approaches the driver while the second officer (partner) approaches from the passenger side.
I’m just saying we don’t have enough information here. Perceptions, thoughts, mis-described accounts, in accurate accounts aren’t substitutes for truth, really. I’m in the “don’t know enough” category right now.
Probably a dead cop and little media coverage.
The dead perp was going to go to prison and knew it.
NJ is a state where the police seem to think that only they should have guns.
A police officer shouldn’t explode and start cursing because he sees a pistol in the glove compartment. That’s illegal in NJ in nearly all circumstances I think, but it plenty of other states, you tell the officer, OK, there’s a pistol in the glove compartment, and sometimes they’re even reasonable about it the way they’re supposed to be.
Shouting and swearing at people causes them to stop thinking. It also causes the shouter to stop thinking. Some police officers only have one tool in their kit, intimidation.
Fake, but accurate.
Looked to me like his hands were right in front of him where the cop could see them, in front of the collar bones. Kind of hard to raise your hands all the way when there’s a low ceiling.
And Officer Days had been shouting, get them out, get them out. Maybe Reid was belatedly trying to comply with that.
I’m about as cynical as they come when it comes to cops killing citizens. But not with this one. Hell, if it was my own kid that got shot and I had this video I would say “he got what he deserved.”
You have two cops with guns pulled SCREAMING “Don’t move” what 4 or 5 times or more. And still you get out of the car, within probably 4 feet of the officer, and then you advance toward the officer. And you get shot. And there is some type of controversy?
Good shoot. Another bad guy bites the dust. Good riddance.
How about following the instructions of the cop who has a gun pointed at you instead of getting out of the car when you've just been told rather forcefully to stay in the car? That doesn't seem particularly difficult.
One thing’s for sure...when they’ve finally had enough of us not toeing the Statist line, we’ll be nice and softened up for “I guess he had it coming” copicides.
Absolutely. One less “African” POS in the community. They should be thanking the officer for that.
(I only put “African” in quotes because it seems I can’t use other words to describe him on this board. I guess because I am white there are some words I can’t use that “Africans” can. And here I thought we respected freedom of speech on this forum)
Had the same problem with my dog... Doonot. Never understood why he did not listen.
“Doonot, Come here.”
“Doonot, Get off the couch.”
Ha
Misdirection and obfuscation
Bad shoot?
Cop is ordering passenger not to move.
Passenger forces way out of car against cop commands.
Passenger advance toward officer.
Even with hands up is passenger a threat to overtake officer and gun?
It looks to me like he stopped at the sign. Just for a second but stopped. You can see the car rock back as it stopped. They were looking for a reason(excuse) to stop them.
That being said it was still a good shoot. If there is such a thing.
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