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.
I call bullshit. Plainclothes cops in unmarked vehicles have no business pulling people over for traffic violations. It reads as though they were baiting the bad guy to do something stupid and he did.
Outside of that, there is no shortage of cases of goons impersonating cops. One can easily buy light bars and "raid jackets" online. The bad guy might have thought that he was being set up for a hit. And in a way, he was.
YouTube has several videos of cop impersonators, some funny, some not so much.
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What? No acorn?
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I can remember advice being given that if an unmarked car tries to stop you and you are uneasy about it then you should proceed to the nearest police station because anyone can buy a "Kojak light" and use it to pretend to be a cop. I think that advice only applies if you are white, though.
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