Video Shows Man Shot By New Jersey Police Raising His Hands

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) -- Another police killing is stirring anger in another town, this time in New Jersey, where a tense traffic stop captured on video ended with a passenger shot to death as he stepped out of a car with his hands raised at shoulder height.

The newly released footage from a police dashboard camera shows Bridgeton officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley in a Dec. 30 stop that escalates quickly after Days warns his partner about seeing a gun in the glove compartment of the Jaguar.

Days screams over and over at the passenger, Jerame Reid, "Show me your hands!" and "If you reach for something, you're going to be f------ dead!" The officer appears to reach into the car and remove the gun. But the brief standoff ends with Reid disregarding Days' order to not move, stepping out and getting shot.

The shooting has touched off protests in Bridgeton, a struggling city of about 25,000 people - two-thirds of them black or Hispanic - 35 miles from Philadelphia. The case came after months of turbulent demonstrations and violence over the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers in New York and Ferguson, Missouri.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NJ_POLICE_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-01-21-13-55-34

[red dog 1]

1. K&R...Thanks for posting, Purveyor

Why don't cops aim Tasers at people instead of guns?

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. Tasers Are Not As Much Fun

What good is an unused gun?

Besides, it's not like they are penalized if they make a mistake and someone gets hurt or dies. Just all part of their "dangerous" job.

[Systematic Chaos]

5. You are absolutely right.

It's disgusting, but it's true.

And while I'm here, greetings from a fellow music lover in Las Vegas!

[SoCalMusicLover]

6. And Greetings From A Warren Fan In CA

[Ino]

10. Here are some "reasons"...

1. It's too uncomfortable to wear a taser! (Darren Wilson)
2. He accidentally grabbed the gun instead of the taser (Johannes Mehserle, about fatally shooting Oscar Grant, Fruitvale incident)
3. "The best explanation that I have is that my ... brain was saying Taser and ... but my body moved faster than my brain,"
4. "she tried to use a Taser but instead drew her Glock handgun and fatally shot Torres"

[red dog 1]

12. Thanks for the links

[azmom]

3. Do you have a link

To the video?

[Xithras]

7. Here it is

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0cb_1421865901

[DallasNE]

15. They Pulled The Car Over For Running A Stop Sign

Yet the video shows the car coming to a stop at the stop sign making this a driving while black case.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Weird Al would have a hernia over the headline of this OP ("Word Crimes")

Someone at the AP needs to go back to Remedial English!

The headline implies that the police were busy coming up around the guy and raising his hands with their own, while some unidentified person(s) shot him! Come on now! If I'm just some fat schlub who noticed that immediately, you mean to tell me that the AP would keep someone on their staff who let something that obvious -- and stupid -- slip?

How about "Video Shows Man With His Hands Raised Shot by New Jersey Police," fer chrissakes??



And now that I have vented my spleen about the lousy grammar, I must ask just how much longer we're going to let the police get away with this shit before the whole country looks like Ferguson, MO? How many more people need to lose parts of their family?

[workinclasszero]

8. Over and over and over again

If you are a black male in this country, the cops are gunning for you. Follow their direction and still get shot down in cold blood.

The cops use all black faces of real people for target practice in Florida!

I'm sure an all white jury will let the killer cop walk, if it even gets to a trial which I doubt.

[lobodons]

9. Black man in Jaguar at night

Gee, no profiling there. None of us who are white would have been pulled over for rolling through that stop sign. He stopped just like all of us do. Except we as whites do not get pulled over.

[TorchTheWitch]

13. Officer is black

He also knew who the guy was - a career criminal that had previously shot at three troopers when he was a teenager.

A handgun was also recovered from the car.

I'm white and female and was pulled over twice for doing a rolling stop. Never a good idea to do that right in front of a cop. Rolling stops aren't legal stops, and police have every right to pull you over when you don't come to a complete stop at a stop sign.

[tabasco]

14. And impose the death penalty on the spot?

Buy a soul.

[SummerSnow]

11. I don't have the words anymore.Too angry

[blkmusclmachine]

16. Out of control.

[blackspade]

17. Another stupid, scared cop kills an unarmed citizen....

Are there no standards for cops these days?