Almost one hundred shots in 42 seconds because he wasn't wearing a seat belt.
The American police are back at the center of controversy after the release of a shocking video showing some plainclothes officers shooting 96 times and killing 26-year-old African-American Dexter Reed , who was stopped at a road check because he was not wearing a seatbelt.
The episode, which occurred in Chicago, dates back to March 21 in Chicago, but the images taken by an officer's bodycam have only now been released.
The policemen - this is the official version of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability - opened fire after Reed refused to get out of the vehicle and shot first, wounding one of them . The other four officers (now on administrative leave for 30 days) returned fire, firing 96 shots. However, the shooting - as admitted by the office responsible for ascertaining the responsibility of the police - continued even after "Reed got out of his vehicle and fell to the ground".
The boy's family, however, accuses the police of excessive violence and wonders why five plainclothes officers stopped him and approached his car with guns drawn with the sole reason that he "allegedly" was not wearing safety belt. And the anger of the city's African-American community was also unleashed, who tried to attack the police station.
Reed was arrested twice last year : once on theft charges for stealing a $950 shirt from the Saks Fifth Avenue department store, and once on weapons charges after bringing a loaded gun to the Windy festival City Smokeout without a transport license. But he was also much more, his desperate family members say: a boy who loved playing basketball, cooking for them and dreamed of becoming a sports journalist .
(Unioneonline/D)
