Jerame Reid Police Shooting Video: New Jersey Police Shoot Man Raising His Hands at Traffic Stop [Graphic Video]
On Tuesday, officials in New Jersey released video of a fatal police shooting of a black man raising his hands late last year.
In the video, which was recorded on Dec. 30, Officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley from the Bridgeton Police Department are seen confronting two men in a white Jaguar after they ran a stop sign in Bridgeton, reports NJ.com. Tension heated up and the cops are seen pointing their weapons at the men while verbally warning them that they would open fire if they made one wrong move.
Officer Days can be heard screaming "Don't you f---ing move!" and "Show me your hands!" at the man in the passenger seat, identified as 36-year-old Jerame Reid.
"I'm going to shoot you," Days shouts. "You're going to be f---ing dead. If you reach for something, you're going to be f---ing dead."
Meanwhile the man on the driver side, Leroy Tutt, 46, is seen with both of his hand hanging out of his window.
Days, continues yelling and eventually reaches into the car and appears to remove a gun. Days tells his partner, "He's reaching for something."
In response, Reid can be heard telling the officer in a faint voice, "I ain't doing nothing. I'm not reaching for nothing, bro. I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing."
Despite being warned repeatedly not to move, the passenger stepped out of the car, with his hands raised about shoulder level. That's when both officers fired several shots, fatally killing him
Both Reid and the man driving the car were black. Both Officer Days, who is black, and his partner, Roger Worley, who is white have been placed on leave while prosecutors investigate.
"The video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat and he possessed no weapon on his person," Walter Hudson, chairman and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance, said Wednesday. "He complied with the officer and the officer shot him."
According to the Associated Press, Reid spent about 13 years in prison after being convicted for shooting at three state troopers when he was a teenager.
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