Former COPA head: Officers in Dexter Reed shooting will need to justify every shot
CHICAGO -- Sharon Fairley, the former head of Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability, weighed in Thursday on the police shootout that killed Dexter Reed last month.Reed, 26, was shot and killed by police on March 21, during what police told
released dozens of videos involving the traffic stop that turned fatal.A five-person tactical team from the Harrison District pulled over Reed in the 3800 block of West Ferdinand Street. In the body camera footage, officers tell Reed to roll down his window and ask him, 'What are you doing?'After rolling down his window, Reed started rolling it up, prompting officers to repeatedly tell him, 'Don't roll the window up,' and, 'Unlock the doors.
said police fired 96 shots in 41 seconds.'Literally, each bullet that was fired has to be justified,' said Fairley, now a professor of law at the University of Chicago.Meanwhile, Fairley said police can use a traffic violation as a pretext for a stop.'If they see someone make a traffic violation, they can stop that car — even if the real reason that they want to stop that car is something entirely different,' said Fairley.
investigators also said the tinted windows on Reed's vehicle make it hard to believe the officers really pulled Reed over for a seatbelt violation.'If the officers claim that the justification for the stop was a seat belt violation — and then the evidence shows that it's not really possible that they could really have seen that — that means that they weren't being truthful,' Fairley said, 'and that's also, obviously, a serious rule violation.
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