Chicago police shooting summary:
- criminal commits robbery
- carries illegal gun
- is let out of jail pre-trial
- drives car with illegally tinted windows so cops can't see if he's pointing a gun at them
- opens fire on cops as they conduct a traffic stop
Any civil rights leaders who support the protests should be criminally and civilly prosecuted.
Public records show Dexter Reed was arrested twice last year. In June, he was arrested on misdemeanor theft charges, accused of stealing a $950 designer shirt from a Saks Fifth Avenue store on the Magnificent Mile. In July, he was arrested on weapons charges, after police and prosecutors said he brought a loaded gun to the Windy City Smokeout festival, despite not having a valid FOID card or concealed carry license.
On the day of the shootout with police, Reed had been driving west in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street when five plainclothes officers assigned to a tactical unit, driving an unmarked squad car, stopped Reed for what they claimed was his not wearing his seatbelt.
After officers surrounded his car and began to question him, Reed initially complied with their orders to roll down his window, before starting to roll it back up. As officers shouted at him to unlock his doors, shots rang out, and an officer standing on the passenger's side of Reed's SUV and immediately fell to the ground.
Several officers could then be seen running for cover and firing shots at Reed's SUV, before he got out and walked to the back of the vehicle, as officers continued to shoot him, and he fell to the ground.
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