A 26-year-old dark man was killed in Chicago last quarter following a shootout with police, according to a report released by The Washington Post on Wednesday. Users have to check eight passages under the article,” Officers fire 96 pictures in 41 moments, killing Black person during traffic stop”, before learning bodycam footage indicates Dexter Reed fired first, wounding an agent.
” Dexter Reed’s mom remembers the next moment she saw her son dead.’ Mother, I’m going for a journey,’ he told her, before heading out in the vehicle that he had purchased only three days earlier”, the Post’s history began. ” Reed, 26, was killed that same day, when defensive- system police officials fired 96 shots at him within 41 hours, according to Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, which investigates claims of police misconduct and officers killings”.
Readers were forced to scroll to the end of the article to see “COPA said its assessment of the film and original reports’apparently confirm that Mr. Reed fired second, hitting one official while four others returned fire.”
The hysterical headline that highlighted 96 shots before presenting any evidence Reed shot at police was n’t just the Washington Post. CBS, CNN, and USA Today each framed the filming as another instance of police wrongdoing. USA Today omitted Reed’s offense for the first three paragraphs.
” It ended with Reed, 26, being gunned down on a home corner by Chicago police officers who fired almost 100 rounds in less than a minute”, the Gannett report reported in its author’s next article.
Neither CNN, USA Today, nor the Washington Post noted that Reed fired 11 rounds at the soldiers. His shots “almost kill]ed ] an officer”, said Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara. The officers shot up. Reed” continued to fire at the soldiers while they were firing those 90 rounds,” Catanzara said.
The online crowdfunding page GoFundMe has platformed a charity for Reed and has raised almost$ 5, 000 as of this article’s release. In 2020, the same website fundraising program that launched a similar strategy for Kyle Rittenhouse.
” GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising funds for the legal protection of an alleged aggressive crime”, the organization wrote in a statement following Rittenhouse’s jury indictment on all claims a season after summer riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
After shooting three rioters who advanced on him, Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree reckless homicide, two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree intentional homicide, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. In self-defense, Rittenhouse was found guilty by a jury after a mob tore down the Midwestern city in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake had a knife in hand, was accused of domestic abuse, and had fought with police before being shot.
