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In reply to the discussion: Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop [View all]
Jedi Guy
(3,477 posts)94. "How do you explain this to your kids?"
"You see, children, if you get pulled over by the police, it's generally inadvisable to pull out a gun and start shooting at them. If you do that, odds are very good you're going to get shot."
Pretty easy to explain, as it turns out. Weird.
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Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop [View all]
Jilly_in_VA
Apr 2024
OP
"I wasn't aware that failure to wear a seatbelt was a capital offense." It's not
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#1
Wearing a seatbelt is not a capital offense, but I'm guessing shooting at officers might be?
Chakaconcarne
Apr 2024
#6
"The police arrest almost a million people a month" That is a disturbing stat in itself.
Lochloosa
Apr 2024
#101
So they had no clue on his race but somehow knew he was not wearing a seatbelt?
Celerity
Apr 2024
#95
I'm going to venture to say that there were a few minutes (at least) omitted from the start
Igel
Apr 2024
#30
With cops, if they give you 1, you're probably getting the whole magazine dumped at you. Like potato chips - can't eat 1
SoFlaBro
Apr 2024
#29
Thank goodness for the ninety-sixth shot or who knows what else he might have done.
Torchlight
Apr 2024
#21
If the preliminary evidence is correct that Reed fired first, then the main thing wrong here...
Silent3
Apr 2024
#22
If you can write a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt then they have to stop you to write it
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#38
They don't, actually. Cops mail tickets all the time, such as for running a red light, which one could argue is much
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#39
It's a pretextual stop. Cops use them for speculative investigations, and they serve as a little Fourth Amendment
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#41
Lol wearing your seatbelt doesn't prevent you from being pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt. That's the point.
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#48
Sure just link to a study showing the percentage of traffic stops that are made up violations
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#62
lol it's not quantified because it's legal. The system relies on it to do its work
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#64
The system of arresting people with 5 outstanding warrants & illegal firearms who try to commit murder or another system
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#66
There were no warrants. He was on pretrial release and had been in court a few days before.
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#69
They showed up in plainclothes in an unmarked car. For all he knew, they weren't cops.
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#76
Except for those. Whoever was trying to open the door was in total plainclothes.
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#82
To bring it back home, my argument is that a man might still be alive and other people and their families might not have
WhiskeyGrinder
Apr 2024
#84
And mine is that if he hadn't tried to murder (and did wound one) officers, they wouldn't have shot back at him
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#85
I'd definitely like to see more about the stop. Makes no sense that an unmarked police care would stop someone for
Silent Type
Apr 2024
#79
Sure, just link to a study showing how many traffic stops are for made up reasons..or it's just your opinion IMO
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#112
The part where black people are disproportionately racially profiled by police, you already know this
uponit7771
Apr 2024
#118
Really, I knew about Chicago police policies? How exactly did I know & how would u know if i did? psychic?
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#119
You know about racial disparities in policing, convince me or yourself you don't know ...go ahead
uponit7771
Apr 2024
#120
So you didn't pull out a firearm & try to kill the officer...maybe that's a better way to go..huh
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#80
My skin color does not afford me to give the police in America the benefit of the doubt like this
uponit7771
Apr 2024
#110
Seems unlikely that one officer did that many reloads, I'll see when the cam footage gets made into a coherent vid
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#67
I did a breakdown from the bodycam footage further down in the thread, post#109, nobody fired even close to 50 rounds
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#121
"I wasn't aware that failure to wear a seatbelt was a capital offense." Aparently if one is black, it is ...
marble falls
Apr 2024
#57
Three or four of the officers in the video are wearing vests that say police or jackets that say police
EX500rider
Apr 2024
#90
I understand the dead man shot first but I feel the number of shots does reveal
NoSheep
Apr 2024
#70
+1, my skin color doesn't afford me to give the cops the benefit of the doubt
uponit7771
Apr 2024
#114