New Jersey police release video of cop shooting man with hands up

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

(Reuters) - A New Jersey police department released a video this week of a man being fatally shot by police as he got out of a car with his hands raised during a traffic stop, heightening calls for an independent investigation into the death.

The footage, recorded on a police dashboard camera, showed a traffic stop escalating into the deadly confrontation in less than two minutes after one of the police officers said he saw a gun in the car's glove compartment.

Reid, who was sitting in the car's front passenger side, was black, as is the car's driver.

The video shows a black police officer, identified in local media reports as Braheme Days, approaching the parked car on Reid's side. "Hey, how are you all doing?" he asks cordially before asking why they had not stopped at a stop sign.

Within a few seconds, Days pulls out his gun and tells his white patrol partner, identified in media reports as Roger Worley, that there is a gun in the glove compartment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/23/us-usa-police-new-jersey-idUSKBN0KW02520150123

This one doesn't look good for the cops.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Nope. A little too eager to find a reason to shoot the guy. Ow well.

[Rattlehead 69]

Not exactly society's greatest loss...

[eieio 1,594]

This one doesn't look good for the cops.

Why not?

Notice the driver followed instructions and was never shot. Pretty simple.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

When a cop says, "Lemme see your hands" there is a sharpie-obozo-holdarcecrd political statute that a black man must have the command repeated at least one-hundred times. Non blacks have varying levels of requirement, but the one-hundred time call out for lemme see your hands must be followed or the police officer will be guilty of not being very nice.

[Póg mo 1,749]

When a cop says, "Lemme see your hands" there is a sharpie-obozo-holdarcecrd political statute that a black man must have the command repeated at least one-hundred times. Non blacks have varying levels of requirement, but the one-hundred time call out for lemme see your hands must be followed or the police officer will be guilty of not being very nice.

I don't know how police in Ireland manage at all. They don't typically carry guns and yet not many ever get shot by criminals. Here, you so much as look at a police officer funny and they're reaching for their guns. Shot first, and don't worry, because right wing nut jobs will defend you without question.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

All gun carrying criminals deserve a head start and a fair shot.