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FILE – Flanked by family members, attorneys and supporters, Dexter Reed’s mother, Nicole Banks, speaks to reporters outside the headquarters for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability in West Town, Chicago, April 9, 2024. The family of the Chicago man killed during a traffic stop where plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, April 24, 2024 accusing the department of “brutally violent” policing tactics. (Ashlee Rezin /Chicago Sun-Times via AP, file)
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of “brutally violent” policing tactics.
The 81-page federal complaint alleges the officers violated multiple laws and police department policies during the “predatory, violent, unlawful traffic stop” on March 21 that left 26-year-old Dexter Reed dead.
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