Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop
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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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You mean they had to get close to a criminal? They had to actually be brave and take risks?
Police still do carry batons, by the way. It's much easier to do that when the other guy doesn't have a weapon, of course.
I'm honestly not sure what your point is here, police can and do use pepper spray and tasers quite often, but not when the person they're approaching is likely to have a firearm.
Seems to me they use their guns a lot of times when the other guy doesn't have a firearm...
The guy in the video did.
Great, now how about all the other times?