CNN is at it again and just in time for riot season!
CNN ran a segment about the Chicago police shooting of Dexter Reed that occurred in March. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) released body camera footage of the incident. Police officers stopped Reed for a seatbelt violation and the video shows Reed immediately did not cooperate.
Reed then shoots, hiting one of the officers. Police start firing back. The investigation found Reed fired 11 times, with officers firing around 96 times. Reed died from the gunshot wounds.
CNN’s Omar Jimenez interviewed Reed’s family members after the body camera footage was released yesterday. Reed’s family says police should not have stopped him in the first place. As has been standard practice for CNN, they took the view of maybe the cops were just wrong, even though they did not shoot until Reed fired first.
“How did a traffic stop for not wearing a seatbelt end with 96 gunshots, an injured officer, and a dead 26-year-old? Some say it was because Dexter Reed fired at officers first, as the initial investigation shows. Some believe the stop never should've happened in the first place,” Jimenez wrote on X.
“The initial response from police here isn't so much what's in question. You get shot at, you shoot back. It's more of why this stop happened in the first place by plainclothes officers and why shots continued as long as they did even when Dexter Reed got out of the car, which at that point he was without the gun. Chicago Police says this is still under investigation as [COPA] recommends relieving ‘four officers of their police powers’ while the investigation is pending,” he added.
“It’s about why this stop happened and why the amount shots continued in the way that they did,” Jimenez said in the report.
If the name Omar Jimenez sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve probably seen his face many times in memes related to a little riot that happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin back in 2020.
That’s right, he’s the face of “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful.”