Newly released footage from a police dashboard camera shows Bridgeton, New Jersey 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.
Days is black, his partner white. The passenger was black, as was the driver.
Reid, 36, had spent about 13 years in prison for shooting at New Jersey State Police troopers when he was a teenager. He was also arrested last year on charges including drug possession and obstruction; Days was one of the arresting officers then.
When coppers come after you, you better do exactly what they say, like the car driver did. Coppers are the front line of government coercion, they will escalate.
(via NyPo)
-RW
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