So a newly released video shows a traffic stop in
Chicago turning deadly after 26 year old Dexter Reed open
fired at the police.
He emptied his clip and then officers returned fire,
killing him. But the media is painting the officers involved.
That's reckless and failing to give the full context.
The Chicago Tribune saying instead we need cool heads and
no more knee jerk responses
arguing to follow the facts.
Hear the reaction with reaction.
Retired Chicago Police Lieutenant John
Garrido. John, thanks so much for joining the program.
So, John,
I've been looking at this case.
I looked at all five police cameras.
I looked at all the spot
cameras, all five of the police reports,
the full transparency report. And when you look at it,
we always say wait for the facts.
But when you have a guy,
you approach his car, try to tell him to pull
his windows down for officer safety,
he fires at the cops,
they retreat and then return fire.
It looks to me like a clean shot.
Absolutely. You know, real life doesn't happen in slow motion.
And it's easy to Monday Morning Quarterback,
which is actually what's happening now throughout all the media
outlets.
You have a guy who's driving around in a car
wearing a mask with a loaded handgun.
He was arrested in July of last year
with that, armed with a with a handgun.
And he had court two weeks before this incident.
So you know what happened here?
He didn't want to go to jail because he had
a gun in the car.
The officers get out of the car and the whole
incident happens within 90 seconds,
90 seconds. That's fast. You've got multiple officers involved.
So it's not like it's just one-on-one and the officer
can stop firing and listen to see if he stopped
firing.
He opened fire first. He fired at least 11 rounds
from inside of his vehicle.
He was trying to kill Chicago police officers and they
responded,
you know, John, when we're training
these K9 officers, I always tell them,
you know, this is game time decision.
The motions are real. You got to be ready,
not just if you got to get shot,
but if your dog is going to get shot.
But it's real emotion when you're arriving to the scene.
And so one of the officers was shot on the
scene.
And I want you to listen to this raw motion
from those cops on the scene.
Let's play it.
Where's Saint Louis, you guys?
You hit? Are you hit?
Give me as soon
as you. I'm here. I got an ambulance.
Where's that?
I'm at Saint Lucie.
You're good. You're good. You're good,
brother. You're good. See the officer on the scene,
Saint Louis, is hit. They put a tourniquet on them.
But there was other officers on the scene that because
you had all this fire happening,
they thought they got hit as well.
Talk about it, what it's like to be a cop
when something like that happens.
Yeah. I mean, the adrenaline is running high.
You know we we we just lost an officer a
few years ago
you know on a traffic stop.
So we understand you know what what what's the circumstances
that are they're happening at the time that they're happening
in real time.
And I tell you that that your your
the levels in your adrenaline
skyrocket and they know that they've got a police officer
that shot.
They want to make sure that everybody's OK.
They're trying to, at the same time neutralize this threat.
You know, a lot of the media wants to say,
oh, how does a traffic stop
end in death? It's not a traffic stop that ended
in death.
It's him shooting at the police that ended in his
death.
John, John, real quickly because there's a lot of talk
going back and forth and and this is circulating in
the civilian world,
why so many shots? Explain why the officers continued the
shoot.
Right. So it's a it's a reasonable standard right.
What does an officer in a similar situation believe is
reasonable?
Not what does a civilian believe is reasonable.
You also have multiple officers firing.
So an individual officer can shoot 20-30 or forty runs
pretty quickly.
But you've got a situation where this guy opens up,
he's firing from inside the car.
You can't see him once he rolls those window,
but you know he's firing one officers already been shot,
so they're returning fire. Then you see tries to drive
and he hits the car in front of us.
So you know the neutral,
the threat has not been neutralized Exactly.
Right, John, It's a complicated situation.
You got different angles there and we're going to be
following that case.
So John, more Fox and Friends coming up.