Video retrieved from a police dashboard camera reportedly shows New Jersey police opening fire on a man who had his hands raised in the air in an apparent attempt to surrender. Jerame Reid of Bridgeton was shot dead on Dec. 30 after he and another man he was traveling in a blue Jaguar with were pulled over for running a stop sign.

According to Yahoo News, the two officers, identified as Braheme Days and Roger Worley, immediately ordered the men not to move after Days recognized Reid as someone he had previously helped arrest.

In the video, one of the officers can be heard repeatedly shouting, "don't you f---ing move!" and "show me your hands," before Days reaches into the vehicle and pulls a silver handgun apparently from the glove compartment. Despite being warned not to move, Reid later stepped out of the vehicle, but can clearly be seen with his hands raised to at least shoulder level. The video then captures both officers, who have now been placed on leave, opening fire.

Before all the shooting erupted, Days, who has previously faced seven municipal court complaints stemming from allegations of abuse, can be heard screaming at Reid, "I'm going to shoot you.:

"You're going to be f---ing dead," Days said. "If you reach for something, you're going to be f---ing dead."

Throughout Bridgeton, a small city just south of Philadelphia composed of 25,000 mostly minority citizens, reaction has been swift and emotional. Several protests have been staged across the city, including one on Wednesday, the same day the video was first made public at the request of two newspapers under the state's open records law.

"The video speaks for itself that at no point was Jerame Reid a threat, and he possessed no weapon on his person," said Walter Hudson, chairman and founder of the civil rights group the National Awareness Alliance. "He complied with the officer, and the officer shot him."

The 36-year-old Reid previously spent 13 years in prison for shooting at three state troopers while he was still a teen. Days was also one of the arresting officers who took Reid into custody about a year ago on drug and obstruction charges.

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