It’s beginning to look a lot like Floydmas in the national media all over again, and with very little justification. A traffic stop in Chicago involving a seatbelt violation turned into a gunfight with police, but only after suspect Dexter Reed, Jr opened fire rather than comply with police orders to exit the vehicle over a traffic violation.
Reed had been out on pretrial release while being prosecuted for — wait for it — three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and illegal firearm possession. As NBC’s Chicago affiliate reported, police ordered Reed to keep his window down, and then to exit the vehicle, several times. Rather than comply, Reed opened fire, as this video shows:
According to Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, five Chicago officers assigned to an 11th District tactical unit had pulled over Dexter Reed Jr. on March 21 in the 3800 block of…
