It’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t believe police brutality isn’t out of control. This goes for black and white cops, but here is yet another example.
In the city of Bridgeton, New Jersey, two police officers pull over a Jaguar for running a stop sign. One officer warns his partner he sees a gun in the glove compartment, then things go wrong from there.
In the video, you hear one of the officers screaming, “Don’t you f—ing move!”, “Show me your hands!”, and “if you move, I will shoot you!” to the man in the passenger seat of the Jaguar. The man in the driver seat has both hands out the window and seems to be in full compliance.
The officer controlling the passenger reaches into the car and removes what appeared to be a silver hand gun (waiting on verification). Soon afterwards, the passenger moves to get out of the car with his hands up. The officers shoots him a few times, killing him.
The incident happened on December 30th, 2014 in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Jerame Reid, 36, was the man killed in the video. There has been a rash of police killings of unarmed people and this was another log on the fire of people growing fed up with living in what some term a “police state”.
What makes this case a bit different from other recent police killings are the racial make up of the cops. Both were not white. The police officer on the passenger side of the care, Roger Worley who initiated the shooting, is black. His partner, Braheme Days who saw the gun in the glove department, is white.
This may not speak to racial inequality in policing, but more widespread rampant problem of police brutality, quick to kill mentality in general towards black people.
“The video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat and he possessed no weapon on his person,” Walter Hudson, chairman and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance, said Wednesday. “He complied with the officer and the officer shot him.”
Reid did have a gun in front of him, which many would say is what esculated the situation in the first place. However, after he was disarmed, hands up, was there really a reason to shoot him? We will will follow this case, but want to hear from you.
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