A video obtained on an Open Records Request by the South Jersey Times shows a man shot to death during a Dec. 30 traffic stop in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
Officers stopped a Jaguar for passing through a stop sign. Two officers approached the vehicle on either side. The driver, Leroy Tutt, 46, was asked for his drivers’ license. That’s when the officer on the passenger side identified a handgun.
The situation escalated from there. The officers drew their weapons. Both Tutt and passenger Jermaine Reid, 36, were repeatedly told to show their hands.
It appears the officer on the passenger side then reached inside the car and removed the handgun from the car.
After repeated warnings not to move, the passenger Reid appeared to force himself out the vehicle with his hands raised “about shoulder level.”
Reid was then fired upon by both officers and killed. About nine shots were fired, says the New Jersey Times.
The officers are identified as Braheme Days, who is black, and his partner, Roger Worley, who is white.
“Reid, 36, spent about 13 years in prison for shooting at three state troopers when he was a teenager. And Days knew who he was; Days was among the arresting officers last year when Reid was charged with several crimes, including drug possession and obstruction.”“‘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.’”
The homicide is currently under investigation.
The police killing comes after widespread protests in lieu of similar cases of black men being slain by police, such as Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and others.
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