Let's look at how writer Jennifer Hassan opened this story:
Sounds bad for the police, right?Dexter Reed's mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. "Mom, I'm going for a ride," he told her, before heading out in the car that he had purchased just three days earlier.
Reed, 26, was killed that same day, when tactical-unit police officers fired 96 bullets at him within 41 seconds, according to Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which investigates allegations of police misconduct and police shootings. "He was just riding around in his car," Dexter's mother, Nicole Banks, told Fox 32 Chicago on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. "They killed him."
Well, before you go grabbing that pitchfork for another Summer of Love, let's do what WaPo didn't and give you the facts.
There are FIVE bodycams that recorded the shootout.
Here is the first one...
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